Macworld has put together an article for their “Leopard Survival Guide” about the Dock and Stacks. The article explains how to optimize and hack your Dock and Stacks to better fit your needs. Let’s start off with Stacks.
They go over a variety of small hacks that can be made to Stacks in order to improve your life. My favorite is the addition of a Trash Can Stack. To do this, open a new window in Finder, and type in “~/.Trash” then drag the folder into the dock, next to the other Stacks. Take not that the .Trash folder has no icon and thus shows up as a plain folder (see picture).
Another hack they go over is one we’ve already covered here at MacTips, and that is the addition of a Recent Items Stack. To read more about this, click here. This Stack is particularly useful because it can display all kinds of information such as Recent Documents, Recent Applications, Favorite Volumes, etc. To select which mode you wish to use, right click the stack and put a check next to the desired setting.
There are a few other interesting Stacks hacks, but let’s move on to the Dock. There’s one hack that allows you to add spacers to your dock, much like adding spacers to your Finder bar; but my personal favorite is the ability to temporarily enable Dock magnification.
I usually have Dock magnification off because it eats a little RAM and is quite pointless in most cases. But sometimes, late at night, or early in the morning, my eyes just refuse to work; for these scenarios, I can hold control+shift while mousing over the dock. This temporarily enables magnification.
To read the whole article, click on the link below
[Macworld]
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