- 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
FULL-SPEED DOCKING BY LOSING THE GENIE!
The Genie Effect that occurs when you send a document to the Dock sure looks cool, but things that look cool generally eat up processing power, and that holds true with the Genie Effect as well (besides, although the Genie Effect looks cool the first couple of times you see it, it doesn't take long before you want to put the genie back in its bottle for good). To turn off the Genie Effect and use the faster Scale Effect, Control-click on the vertical Dock divider bar, and in the resulting pop-up menu, under Minimize Using, choose Scale Effect. This decreases the burden on the system resources and keeps things moving at full speed.