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Tweak the Dock on your Mac
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Friday May 29, 2009
Tutorials
Friday May 29, 2009
When you get your Mac the Dock is set with certain defaults. You may like it like that, but then again you may not. You can easily tweak the way your Dock looks and acts to get a very personalized Dock that performs the way you want.
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- Open up System Preferences either by clicking on the icon in the Dock or by clicking the Apple menu and selecting System Preferences.
- In System Preferences click on Dock.
- The first thing you see is Size.
- Move the slider to the left to make the Dock smaller or to the right to make it larger.
- Check the Magnification box to get a magnification effect on icons in your Dock.
- You can change the position of the Dock to the left, right, or bottom.
- You can change the effect used when minimizing a window. The Scale Effect is like the program shrinking while the Genie Effect is more like the program sliding to the side.
- You can check the box to animate programs when they open. When enabled, icons will bounce in the Dock to show that they're opening.
- You can also check the box to Automatically hide and show the Dock.
- With this option on the Dock will appear when you move the mouse to it and it will disappear when the mouse moves away.
- In System Preferences click on Dock.
- The first thing you see is Size.
- Move the slider to the left to make the Dock smaller or to the right to make it larger.
- Check the Magnification box to get a magnification effect on icons in your Dock.
- You can change the position of the Dock to the left, right, or bottom.
- You can change the effect used when minimizing a window. The Scale Effect is like the program shrinking while the Genie Effect is more like the program sliding to the side.
- You can check the box to animate programs when they open. When enabled, icons will bounce in the Dock to show that they're opening.
- You can also check the box to Automatically hide and show the Dock.
- With this option on the Dock will appear when you move the mouse to it and it will disappear when the mouse moves away.
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