- 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
STOP THE ICONS FROM MOVING
In the previous tip, I showed how you can drag a document onto an application's icon in the Dock. But sometimes you may be trying to add the document to a folder in the Dock. When you do this, the Dock thinks you're actually trying to add the document to the Dock itself, rather than dropping it on the folder, so it kindly slides the icons out of the way to make room for your document. That's incredibly polite (for an operating system anyway), but it can also be incredibly annoying if that's not what you're trying to do. If this happens to you, just hold the Command key as you drag and the icons will stay put, enabling you to drop the document into a “non-moving” object.