Circle Dock is an ultimate docking application I’ve ever seen. It is totally different from conventional docking applications. Instead of simple horizontal or vertical dock, as its name suggests, it uses a circular dock to dock applications. This application was developed at a coding competition organized by DonationCoder and won the first prize at the competition.

I just downloaded and started using it(doesn’t require installation :-)) and believe me, I’ve become a fan of it. Here are some of its features:

• Drag and drop your files, folders, and shortcuts onto a circular or spiral dock.
• Rotate the dock with either your mouse wheel or the keyboard arrow keys.
• Change the image shown for the icons and change the skins (compatible with icons and skins for Rocket Dock, Object Dock, etc.)
• Ability to run the program from a portable USB memory stick and have the links in the dock point to the documents on the USB memory stick.
• Ability to synchronize the links on the dock with the files, folders, and shortcuts on your desktop or other folders in real-time.
• The dock appears where your mouse is by pressing a hot-key(Ctrl+windows is default), you may change it.
• Works on computers with multiple monitors.

Another feature which i liked is that you can customize your circular dock a lot. You can change it to spiral dock, let it rotate continuously when you are not using it etc.

Circle dock is just 3 MB in size and is a freeware. It does require Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 installed on your PC.

If you haven’t installed .NET Framework 3.5 yet, you can get it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/net/DownloadCurrent.aspx

You can download Circle Dock from here: http://circledock.wikidot.com/download-circle-dock

Here is a screen cast video of Circle Dock, have a look:

You might also want to check out RocketDock, another normal Docking Application.