Comments on: Mac OS X Dock explained

By: to.avi

to.avi — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 07:59:11 +0000

Avi — you can’t open the Finder? You better take your computer to the Apple store right away. It sounds like your computer got broked.

By: Avi

Avi — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:33:26 +0000

I can’t open the finder on osx tiger 10.4.10
All the other apps work ok
what shuld I do?

By: w.pasman

w.pasman — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:26:09 +0000

For me the dock is like a sore tooth. It’s ugly and mostly useless (except for the trash bin, which used to be on the desktop…). For one, I need more structure in my applications. Second, I want the icons always on the same place, as I remember the place not the name. Fixing places for icons is something that OSX has trouble with anyway…
The old pop-up windows were waaay better. I’m now using drop drawers which works great, even better than the old pop-up windows, but it’s one of those points where OS 8.6 was better than OSX.
Why oh why can’t you just remove the dock??? I once removed the entire dock application from the system folder, but then the system got unstable….

By: Zach

Zach — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 03:48:03 +0000

(Works only on the dock icons.)

By: Zach

Zach — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 03:47:22 +0000

Instead of Ctrl+Click-ing, you can also hold-click. Click with your mouse button and hold it down for a short time, and it acts the same as a right click. I prefer it to having to use a second button, especially on a notebook’s single button.

By: JesusChrist

JesusChrist — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 14:20:58 +0000

Holy Sh!t, I use OSX for nearly two years and there are still cool features left to explore!

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:14:03 +0000

I use TrasparentDock; http://www.freerangemac.com/

By: subcorpus

subcorpus — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 22:00:28 +0000

you can drag a lot more to the dock than URLs …

By: CrimsonCrow

CrimsonCrow — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 21:57:23 +0000

C’mon! Please, identify the icons in your Dockshots!

“Finally, here is a cool thing you can do. You can open Finder, click on the start up disk ico (usually called Macintosh HD) and then select the Applications folder. Click this folder and drag it to the Dock, to the right of the divider.”

You can also drag your Home folder, the whole Macintosh HD, etc.

By: Brad Petrik

Brad Petrik — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 18:05:56 +0000

You failed to mention that if you use Camino, Safari or Omniweb you can drag URLs to the dock, too.