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Playing with Stacks
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Added in Leopard
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Adding and removing
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Simply drag a folder into the right hand side of the dock
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Drag it out to remove it. Poof!
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They have to live on the right side of the dock to the left of the Trash icon.
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Creates an alias to the folder in the dock.
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Clicking the stack in the dock "expands" the items.
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By default
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Apple starts you off with three default Stacks: one for Applications, one for downloads, and the other for documents.
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Set to "Automatic" view by default
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Fan view is the default if the folder just contains a few items (9 or less)
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Grid view will be displayed if there are 10 or more items contained in the stack
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The views
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Fan - Shows folder content in the Fan stack, organized by your sort option.
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Grid - Shows folder content in the Grid stack, organized by your sort option.
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List - Shows the folder contents as a list, organized by your sort option. Each sub-folder will open another list and so on, until you reach the end of the directory structure. To open an application or document, simply click it.
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Automatic - This lets Snow Leopard determine the best view content option. When there are a few items, the Fan stack is used. Once you have loaded your folder with enough items, Snow Leopard will change your view content type to the Grid stack.
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Sort by - You can select to have items sorted by Name, Date Added, Date Modified, Date Created, or Kind.
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In Fan view the sort order is from the bottom up. Item closest to the dock is first in sort order
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Grid is top down from left to right.
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Display as - Displays the icon in the Dock as the folder's actual icon or as a stack of icons of the folder contents.
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Icon displayed is set by sort order on the stack
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All these settings can be changed or customized by control+clicking (right-clicking) the stack icon in the dock.
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Recent Items hacking
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Can use a Terminal hack to add a "special" stack to display recent items.
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Launch Terminal (Applications-->Utilities-->Terminal)
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Enter this command:
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defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add '{ "tile-data" = { "list-type" = 1; }; "tile-type" = "recents-tile"; }'
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Then type killall Dock to restart the Dock
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Control+Click (Right+Click) and you can change the 'Type' of recent items
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Recent Applications
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Recent Documents
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Recent Servers
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Favorite Volumes
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Favorite Items
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If you want to avoid the Terminal Hacking
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Use 'Secrets' from Blacktree
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Once installed it's a system Preference pane
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Choose 'Dock' from the list of 'hacks' on the left
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Scroll down to the 'Stacks' section
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Click the 'Add Recents/ Favorites Stack option'
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With Secrets you can add multiple and place it on the left or right side
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To remove them, click the item in the list in Secrets and press delete on your keyboard. It will remove all of the items
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When you make an adjustment in Secrets you will see a "Quit This" button at the bottom of the window. You need to click this to see the changes take effect.
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Other neat hacks with Secrets
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Enable new list view in Stacks. In Snow Leopard this makes List views behave like the "Grid" so instead of "fly-out" style drill downs, you get a single window with scrollbars and the "back" icon as you drill down
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Highlight stack items on hover
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Mouse over effect
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This can be done using the arrows on the keyboard without the hack when the stack is enabled. Press Enter/Return to select an item in the stack from the keyboard.
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Closing
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Priority to your emails.
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Hotline: 281-622-4269
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ideas for topics, subjects you'd like covered, etc.
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