Dockapps, or docked applications are computer programs which appear to reside inside an icon rather than a window in graphical computer systems, normally in a part of the user interface known as the dock. Their display is constantly updated just like a windowed application, but appears inside a small (64x64 pixel) icon. This makes dockapps particularly suitable for monitoring things in the background, and some applications of dockapps are: Displaying CPU usage Displaying computer temperatures Displaying network or disk-usage statistics Displaying clocks, calendars, moon phases, or weather reports See also Dock (computing) External links dockapps.net - a central repository for many dockapps xdock - an application that emulates Window Maker docks in any window manager Desktop environments