Monday, December 31, 2007

Leopard dock tip: Show recent applications, documents and more

The Leopard dock has a great undocumented feature which allows quick access to:

* Recent applications
* Recent documents
* Recent servers
* Favorite volumes
* Favorite items

Here's how to enable the feature:

* Open Terminal

* Enable the Dock item by typing:

defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add '{ "tile-data" = { "list-type" = 1; }; "tile-type" = "recents-tile"; }'
* Stop and restart the Dock to see the change by typing (still in Terminal):

killall Dock

The new item appears on the right-hand side of the dock and defaults to displaying Recent Applications. To change what is displayed right-click the icon.

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