- Dragging from the Dock, Not to It
- The One-Click Trick to Moving the Dock
- Freaky Movie Dock Trick
- Access System Preferences Directly from the Dock
- Keep an Eye on Things, Live from the Dock
- The Giant App Switcher Does More Than Just Switch
- Instant Dock Resize
- For Those Who Don't Want to Hide
- Yellow Minimize Button Too Small? Try This!
- Automatically Hiding the Dock
- Accidentally Launched a Program? Un-Launch It
- Keeping a Running App in the Dock After You Quit
- Unloading the Dock
- Get Right to the File You Want
- Folders to Add to Your Dock
- Force Quitting from the Dock
- Shortcut to Your Applications
- Getting Rid of Extra Windows While You Work
- How to Close a Finder Window in the Dock
- Bringing Home Lost Sheep: Finding Docked Originals
- Stop the Bouncing. I Beg You!
- Make One Active, and Hide the Rest
- Freaky Genie Effect
- Snapping Dock Sizes
- Minimizing Multiple Windows at Once
- Open Documents By Dragging Them to the Dock
- Stop the Icons from Moving
- Full-Speed Docking By Losing the Genie!
- Forcing a Document on an App
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
YELLOW MINIMIZE BUTTON TOO SMALL? TRY THIS!
Sometimes hitting that tiny middle yellow button (to minimize your current window to the Dock) is tricky, especially if you're using a Titanium PowerBook or Cinema Display set at its native resolution, in which everything is smaller than a gnat's nose. If you'd like something bigger to aim at than that tiny yellow button, go under the Apple menu, under System Preferences, and click on the Appearance icon, and then click on the checkbox for Minimize When Double Clicking a Window Title Bar. Now you can just double-click anywhere on the window's title bar and that window will immediately minimize to the Dock, just as if you had clicked the tiny yellow button. Of course, you could skip the clicking altogether and press Command-M (depending on your application), but that just seems like cheating, doesn't it?
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