Organise Your Dock

A few days a ago Luke did a post on Rationalising Your Dock. He included some really good, sound advice in this article, but today I would like to expand on this information.

It can be useful to split your dock up a little in order to help you find more applications.

So, how do you do this? Simple:

Launch Terminal (Applications/Utilities/Terminal)
Type the following: [code lang="plain"]defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add '{"tile-type"="spacer-tile";}'[/code]
Now repeat this line for however many spaces you want. These will not appear yet.
You then need to restart your dock in order to show these spaces. To do this type the following in your terminal: [code lang="plain"]killall Dock[/code]
Click and drag the spaces to where you want to see them.

Written by Daniel Groves

I am a student/freelance website designer that lives near Bath and studies at the University of Plymouth during term time. I spend my time tweeting writing for AppFlow and building on my portfolio. When I'm not working on the web you'll find my out on my Mountain Bike or shooting photos with my Nikon D3000.

http://danielwiltshire.co.uk Daniel Wiltshire

Nice!, is there away to remove the spaces quickly using the GUI instead Terminal?

http://inspiredbywordpress.co.uk Daniel Groves

Yes, simply right click on the space and select “Remove from Dock”, or click and drag it off the Dock like you would any other application.

http://allthingsscuba.com Noemi Bush

This is a wonderful post, but I was wondering how do I suscribe to the RSS feed?

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Simply click on the RSS icons in the top of the sidebar and then choose which service you would like to subscribe with in your browser. This varies from browser to browser and so unless you tell me what browser you are using I am unable to provide further details.