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Pimp your Mac OSX Dock
#6 | 6:19 |
Thursday October 29, 2009
Pimp my PC
Thursday October 29, 2009
Lucas turns his attention from XP to Mac OSX as he demonstrates how to
pimp out your OSX Dock
. Sure, the Dock is already pretty, but we're looking for more. We want brains and looks in multiples. Lucas abides as he shows offhow to customize the Mac OSX Dock
and even how to run game on more than one Dock at once on your machine.Download this episode now
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Show Notes
- To move the Dock, hit the Apple menu, roll-over Dock and choose a position for your Dock.
- Find user-generated Dock mods at DeviantArt.
- Go to Macintosh HD > System > Library > CoreServices > Dock.
- Right-click, select Show Package Contents then go to Contents > Resources.
- Select the files you want to change; cross-reference them with the files in the Dock mod files you've downloaded.
- Before pimping your Dock, perform a backup of these core files by copying them to another folder on your machine.
- Delete the appropriate files in the Resources folder (you will be prompted for an administrator password).
- Copy the files from the downloaded Dock mod and paste them into your Resources folder. Again, you'll be asked for an administrator password.
- Open a Terminal window.
- Type "Killall Dock" without quotation marks to restart the Dock with the new mod applied.
- Dock Spaces is downloadable software that lets you have multiple Docks on one machine.
- Find user-generated Dock mods at DeviantArt.
- Go to Macintosh HD > System > Library > CoreServices > Dock.
- Right-click, select Show Package Contents then go to Contents > Resources.
- Select the files you want to change; cross-reference them with the files in the Dock mod files you've downloaded.
- Before pimping your Dock, perform a backup of these core files by copying them to another folder on your machine.
- Delete the appropriate files in the Resources folder (you will be prompted for an administrator password).
- Copy the files from the downloaded Dock mod and paste them into your Resources folder. Again, you'll be asked for an administrator password.
- Open a Terminal window.
- Type "Killall Dock" without quotation marks to restart the Dock with the new mod applied.
- Dock Spaces is downloadable software that lets you have multiple Docks on one machine.
