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If you would like to add application to the Dock in OS X you can do it in three ways:

• Open Finder and navigate to your Applications folder. Now select the application you wish to add and click and drag the icon to the Dock. You can place it anywhere, the other  icons will nicely move out of the way and make room for the new one.
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• Open Finder and navigate to your Applications folder. Double-click the application you wish to add to the dock. This will open the application and add it to the Dock temporarily, until it’s closed. Select the application icon in the Dock and move it to a different location, anywhere will do. Once you move it the application will stay in the Dock even after you close it.
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• Open Finder and navigate to your Applications folder. Double-click the application you wish to add to the dock. This will open the application and add it to the Dock temporarily, until it’s closed. Right-click on the application icon in the Dock and select Options > Keep in Dock.  If you are not running Lion (10.7) then right-click and select Keep in Dock.
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If you wish to remove the application from the dock simply click and drag its icon off the Dock and it will disappear in a puff of smoke. Note: This will only remove the application from the Dock, it will not remove it from your Applications folder.

It is not very widely known that Finder has its own browsing history, just like Safari does. When you click and hold Next or Previous button in Safari, you get the list of previously accessed websites. It works the same in Finder, showing you the list of previously accessed folders.

This works only in OS X Lion (10.7)

In Leopard and Snow Leopard you can zoom the screen by holding the Control button on your keyboard adn scrolling up on your mouse or trackpad. But this is not the case in Lion. In 10.7 you have a small window that zooms in and out only the selected area of your screen.

Fear not, the function is still there but for some reason Apple decided to switch it off by default.

To enable it, head to System Preferences, click on Universal Access, select Seeing and un-tick the “Zoom in window” option.

The screen zoom is back on again.

With Lion being just announced by Apple as download (only?) purchase, many users will find it very difficult to upgrade their Mac due to their monthly data allowance. The download is about 4GB and if you have multiple Macs to upgrade you will feel particularly hard done.

It is still unclear whether Apple will have a DVD version at same/different price level.

Meanwhile, several blogs have already posted the instructions on how to burn the installation disk once you have downloaded the dreaded 4GB installation file, so here it is:

1. Purchase and download Lion from the App Store
2. Right click on Mac OS X Lion installer and select Show Package Contents.
3. Open SharedSupport folder and  identify the InstallESD.dmg file.
4. Copy InstallESD.dmg file elsewhere on your computer, e.g. on your Desktop.
5. Open the Disk Utility and select the InstallESD.dmg file from your Desktop.
6. Burn the bootable disc and … enjoy.

This disc will allow you to install Lion on any Lion compatible Mac without need to download each time.

If you are annoyed by the vertical placement of the red, yellow and green (close-minimise-zoom) buttons in iTunes 10 like I am, you can change them back to horizontal with a simple terminal command.

Open Terminal (Applications/Utilities/Terminal) and type (or copy and paste) the following command:

defaults write com.apple.itunes full-window -1

Press return, relaunch the iTunes and – enjoy!

To go back to the traffic-light look just replace -1 with -0 in the command above.

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