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Playing with Stacks
  Added in Leopard
  Adding and removing
    Simply drag a folder into the right hand side of the dock
    Drag it out to remove it. Poof!
    They have to live on the right side of the dock to the left of the Trash icon.
    Creates an alias to the folder in the dock.
    Clicking the stack in the dock "expands" the items.
  By default
    Apple starts you off with three default Stacks: one for Applications, one for downloads, and the other for documents.
    Set to "Automatic" view by default
      Fan view is the default if the folder just contains a few items (9 or less)
      Grid view will be displayed if there are 10 or more items contained in the stack
  The views
    Fan - Shows folder content in the Fan stack, organized by your sort option.
    Grid - Shows folder content in the Grid stack, organized by your sort option.
    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.
    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.
  Sort by - You can select to have items sorted by Name, Date Added, Date Modified, Date Created, or Kind.
    In Fan view the sort order is from the bottom up. Item closest to the dock is first in sort order
    Grid is top down from left to right.
  Display as - Displays the icon in the Dock as the folder's actual icon or as a stack of icons of the folder contents.
    Icon displayed is set by sort order on the stack
  All these settings can be changed or customized by control+clicking (right-clicking) the stack icon in the dock.
  Recent Items hacking
    Can use a Terminal hack to add a "special" stack to display recent items.
      Launch Terminal (Applications-->Utilities-->Terminal)
      Enter this command:
        defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add '{ "tile-data" = { "list-type" = 1; }; "tile-type" = "recents-tile"; }'
      Then type killall Dock to restart the Dock
      Control+Click (Right+Click) and you can change the 'Type' of recent items
        Recent Applications
        Recent Documents
        Recent Servers
        Favorite Volumes
        Favorite Items
    If you want to avoid the Terminal Hacking
      Use 'Secrets' from Blacktree
      Once installed it's a system Preference pane
        Choose 'Dock' from the list of 'hacks' on the left
        Scroll down to the 'Stacks' section
        Click the 'Add Recents/ Favorites Stack option'
          With Secrets you can add multiple and place it on the left or right side
        To remove them, click the item in the list in Secrets and press delete on your keyboard. It will remove all of the items
        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.
      Other neat hacks with Secrets
        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
        Highlight stack items on hover
          Mouse over effect
          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.
Closing
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