Dock 101: Setup and Basic Use

Dock 101: Setup and Basic Use

on Aug 2nd 2012 with 4 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Topics: Dock, App Launching, File Management
  • Difficulty: Beginner
  • Estimated Completion Time: 15 Minutes

If you’re new to OS X, there are two central pieces of the operating system that you’ll likely use every single time you do anything on your Mac: Finder and the dock. Today we’ll teach you all about the latter: how to set up your dock, change the basic settings and use it to increase your file browsing productivity.

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Dock 101: Setup and Basic Use
 
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  • http://www.solife.cc Daniel Faraday

    Thanks for the nice tutorial. Another little trick: If you drag the dotted line between app-side and the “doc”-side you can easily change the size of the whole dock. Also i love the option to view folder-content as a list. Since i set it, i open the finder half the time!

  • http://jasonandreoni.com Jason Andreoni

    For us widescreen users (which is pretty much everyone these days), I find the best use of my screen real estate is to have the dock on the left side of my screen, that way I don’t lose precious vertical space.

    • http://www.robertanthonyperez.com Robert Anthony

      I’m also all about screen real estate. I find using the Hiding feature pointed out in the screencast as my preferred way to use all of the screen. This will let you use the most screen area and still have quick access to the Dock. I just don’t like having the Dock always showing.

  • Linish

    Very Nice tutorial! :)
    Thanks!