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Customize the Dock: Add a Recent Applications Stack to the Dock
The Dock is one of OS X’s best features. It puts applications and documents at your fingertips, where you can access them with a click of the mouse. But what if an application or document is one that you don’t use often enough to deserve its own space in the Dock? For example, I often make heavy use of an application for a day or two, and then rarely use it again for several months. It certainly doesn’t deserve to take up dedicated space in the Dock, but it would be handy to be able to access it quickly during those few days I’m using it heavily.
One method of accomplishing this goal is the ‘Recent Items’ Apple menu item, which provides easy access to recently used documents, applications, and servers. But if you’re Dock-oriented like me, you might wish you could access the Recent Items option through the Dock instead of the Apple menu.
Fortunately, it’s both possible and easy to customize the Dock by adding a Recent Items stack. Not only will this stack keep track of applications, documents, and servers you’ve recently used, it will also track volumes and any favorite items you’ve added to the Finder sidebar.
The Recent Items stack is so versatile I’m surprised Apple didn’t include it as part of the standard Dock.
What You Need
OS X 10.5.x. This tip works specifically with OS X 10.5.x and will probably work with any future version of OS X.
The willingness to use the Terminal application to customize the Dock. The Terminal application gives you a command line interface to the underbelly of OS X.
Let’s Get Started
Launch Terminal, located at /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.
Enter the following text into Terminal. You can copy/paste the following line into Terminal, or you can simply type the line as shown. (The command below is a single line of text, but your browser may break it into multiple lines. Be sure to enter the text as a single line in the Terminal application.
defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add '{ "tile-data" = { "list-type" = 1; }; "tile-type" = "recents-tile"; }'
After you enter the line above, press enter or return.
Enter the following text into Terminal. If you type the text rather than copy/paste it, be sure to match the case of the text.
killall Dock
Press enter or return.
The Dock will disappear for a moment and then reappear.
Enter the following text into Terminal.
exit
Press enter or return.
The exit command will cause Terminal to end the current session. You can then quit the Terminal application.
Using the Recent Items Stack
Your Dock will now have a new Recent Items stack located just to the left of the Trash icon. If you click on the Recent Items stack, you will see a list of your most recently used applications. Click the Recent Items stack again to close the display of recent applications.
But wait; there’s more. If you right-click on the Recent Items stack, you will see that you can choose which recent items should display. You can select any of the following from the menu: Recent Applications, Recent Documents, Recent Servers, Recent Volumes, or Favorite Items.
If you would like to have more than one Recent Items stack, repeat the terminal commands listed above under ‘Let’s Get Started.’ This will create a second Recent Items stack, which you can right-click and assign to show one of the recent item types. For instance, you could have two Recent Item stacks; one showing recent applications and the other showing recent documents.
Deleting the Recent Items Stack
If you decide you don’t wish to have a Recent Items stack in your Dock, you can make it disappear by right-clicking on the stack and selecting ‘Remove from Dock’ from the pop-up menu. This will remove the Recent Items stack and return your Dock to the way it looked before you added the Recent Items stack.
http://macs.about.com/od/usingyourmac/qt/dockrecentitem.htm
The Dock is one of OS X’s best features. It puts applications and documents at your fingertips, where you can access them with a click of the mouse. But what if an application or document is one that you don’t use often enough to deserve its own space in the Dock? For example, I often make heavy use of an application for a day or two, and then rarely use it again for several months. It certainly doesn’t deserve to take up dedicated space in the Dock, but it would be handy to be able to access it quickly during those few days I’m using it heavily.
One method of accomplishing this goal is the ‘Recent Items’ Apple menu item, which provides easy access to recently used documents, applications, and servers. But if you’re Dock-oriented like me, you might wish you could access the Recent Items option through the Dock instead of the Apple menu.
Fortunately, it’s both possible and easy to customize the Dock by adding a Recent Items stack. Not only will this stack keep track of applications, documents, and servers you’ve recently used, it will also track volumes and any favorite items you’ve added to the Finder sidebar.
The Recent Items stack is so versatile I’m surprised Apple didn’t include it as part of the standard Dock.
What You Need
OS X 10.5.x. This tip works specifically with OS X 10.5.x and will probably work with any future version of OS X.
The willingness to use the Terminal application to customize the Dock. The Terminal application gives you a command line interface to the underbelly of OS X.
Let’s Get Started
Launch Terminal, located at /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.
Enter the following text into Terminal. You can copy/paste the following line into Terminal, or you can simply type the line as shown. (The command below is a single line of text, but your browser may break it into multiple lines. Be sure to enter the text as a single line in the Terminal application.
defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add '{ "tile-data" = { "list-type" = 1; }; "tile-type" = "recents-tile"; }'
After you enter the line above, press enter or return.
Enter the following text into Terminal. If you type the text rather than copy/paste it, be sure to match the case of the text.
killall Dock
Press enter or return.
The Dock will disappear for a moment and then reappear.
Enter the following text into Terminal.
exit
Press enter or return.
The exit command will cause Terminal to end the current session. You can then quit the Terminal application.
Using the Recent Items Stack
Your Dock will now have a new Recent Items stack located just to the left of the Trash icon. If you click on the Recent Items stack, you will see a list of your most recently used applications. Click the Recent Items stack again to close the display of recent applications.
But wait; there’s more. If you right-click on the Recent Items stack, you will see that you can choose which recent items should display. You can select any of the following from the menu: Recent Applications, Recent Documents, Recent Servers, Recent Volumes, or Favorite Items.
If you would like to have more than one Recent Items stack, repeat the terminal commands listed above under ‘Let’s Get Started.’ This will create a second Recent Items stack, which you can right-click and assign to show one of the recent item types. For instance, you could have two Recent Item stacks; one showing recent applications and the other showing recent documents.
Deleting the Recent Items Stack
If you decide you don’t wish to have a Recent Items stack in your Dock, you can make it disappear by right-clicking on the stack and selecting ‘Remove from Dock’ from the pop-up menu. This will remove the Recent Items stack and return your Dock to the way it looked before you added the Recent Items stack.
http://macs.about.com/od/usingyourmac/qt/dockrecentitem.htm
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Poser
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if you want the weather in your menu bar, which i suggest that you get, its really cool.
i will never get rid of it,..... useful information on the dropdown menu too, awesome.
download from link, its free.
http://heat-meteo.sourceforge.net/
i will never get rid of it,..... useful information on the dropdown menu too, awesome.
download from link, its free.
http://heat-meteo.sourceforge.net/
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Poser
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how about Facebook in your menubar!
As if yesterday’s Facebook Lite wasn’t enough, the world’s biggest social network has also launched a very cool application for Mac users: Facebook Desktop Notifications!
Facebook Desktop Notifications adds a Facebook icon to your Mac’s menu bar. Clicking on the icon lets you view any new notifications, the subject headings of messages in your inbox and gives you the option of updating your Facebook status right from your desktop.
the link,,,,,http://mashable.com/2009/09/11/facebook-mac/
download here,,,,http://www.facebook.com/notifier
As if yesterday’s Facebook Lite wasn’t enough, the world’s biggest social network has also launched a very cool application for Mac users: Facebook Desktop Notifications!
Facebook Desktop Notifications adds a Facebook icon to your Mac’s menu bar. Clicking on the icon lets you view any new notifications, the subject headings of messages in your inbox and gives you the option of updating your Facebook status right from your desktop.
the link,,,,,http://mashable.com/2009/09/11/facebook-mac/
download here,,,,http://www.facebook.com/notifier
Poser
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awesome itunes controller, free.
http://www.yousoftware.com/tunes/
cool add-on, it scrolls song names in menu bar, try it.
http://www.yousoftware.com/tunes/
cool add-on, it scrolls song names in menu bar, try it.
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Poser
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how about enjoying this link for yourself to judge what you need and don't need.
http://www.usingmac.com/2009/6/2/30-free-menubar-applications-for-mac
also check to the right side of that link and you will see "popular posts".
http://www.usingmac.com/2009/6/2/30-free-menubar-applications-for-mac
also check to the right side of that link and you will see "popular posts".
Hopefully none of you are planning to use the new macbook, macbook pro or iMac in an enterprise environment.
Apple REALLY dropped the ball for companies using enterprise level storage for their graphic design or video editing needs.
I deployed 45 new units for my studio and graphic design employees, only to find the performance of the new hardware is cut by about 75% because apple got cheap on the ethernet controllers they installed.
Now the only way we can get the performance of our OLD hardware(some of it was non-intel) I have to buy $3000 mac pro workstations, then upgrade the ethernet cards after purchase.
We the old equipment, we were seeing SAN storage performance that was about twice the speed of the local hard drives.
Apparently apple believes that everyone is still using local hard drives for enterprise storage.
This move has ****** of a LOT of people at the enterprise level by removing a capability that was previously available in all of their hardware.
Apple REALLY dropped the ball for companies using enterprise level storage for their graphic design or video editing needs.
I deployed 45 new units for my studio and graphic design employees, only to find the performance of the new hardware is cut by about 75% because apple got cheap on the ethernet controllers they installed.
Now the only way we can get the performance of our OLD hardware(some of it was non-intel) I have to buy $3000 mac pro workstations, then upgrade the ethernet cards after purchase.
We the old equipment, we were seeing SAN storage performance that was about twice the speed of the local hard drives.
Apparently apple believes that everyone is still using local hard drives for enterprise storage.
This move has ****** of a LOT of people at the enterprise level by removing a capability that was previously available in all of their hardware.
wonderings
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First I have heard of this, though I am not in an enterprise situation. I do occasionally work off a connected iMac's hard drive where all our files are stored and have never had an issue with either ethernet, or now with wifi.
machine to machine is not what I'm talking about,
I'm talking about 100+ machines accessing the same storage array with file sizes in the 3-4GB size range.
The ethernet chipset apple installed on these machines will not support Jumbo Frames, which is the core of high end ethernet capabilities.
I can get this capability in $200 netbook.
This would be akin to Suzuki building the 2011 GSXR1000 with a 100mph electronic speed restriction and not telling anyone.
The 2010 would do 180mph, and the 2011 has the power to do it, just not the electronic capability.
The hardware that has this issue are the units that have onboard nic's that cannot easily be replaced.
The problem was originally thought to be the i5 and i7 iMac's but it affects the macbook pro as well.
http://discussions.info.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2236017&start=0&tstart=0
I'm talking about 100+ machines accessing the same storage array with file sizes in the 3-4GB size range.
The ethernet chipset apple installed on these machines will not support Jumbo Frames, which is the core of high end ethernet capabilities.
I can get this capability in $200 netbook.
This would be akin to Suzuki building the 2011 GSXR1000 with a 100mph electronic speed restriction and not telling anyone.
The 2010 would do 180mph, and the 2011 has the power to do it, just not the electronic capability.
The hardware that has this issue are the units that have onboard nic's that cannot easily be replaced.
The problem was originally thought to be the i5 and i7 iMac's but it affects the macbook pro as well.
http://discussions.info.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2236017&start=0&tstart=0
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That does sound like Apple. None of their consumer customers will care, yet the business will cry foul. I am sure they knew it will happen, but chose (calculated move) to stick it to you enterprise guys. Some of you will leave the platform, others will pony up cach for Mac Pro upgrade. In the end they figured it will be an enterprise wash and they end up making tons more money by saving on the costs for consumer line of product by using cheaper components .... it sucks, but not something others in the business don't do. If you are not a charity, the stakeholders want to see more return on their investment all the time ....
The best part about the whole deal, Because I purchase from a reseller, I can't return them for credit on units that have the proper hardware.
You'd think after spending $100K + they'd be a bit more flexible.
This whole platform and the "USE OUR HARDWARE ONLY" licensing model is BS as well.
the OS runs just fine as a virtual machine under VMWare, but Apple won't allow the OS to be deployed this way.
I can virtualize 40 windows desktops for the cost of 3 apple macbooks, I'd be cutting the strings to the entire platform if it wasn't such a faux pas to do design work with a windows or linux machine in the advertising world.
Is that any reseller or just this particular one you used? To me this should be a pure business decision on the reseller's part ... kind of like "Work with me and you just might see some more of my business in the future. Don't and you will never see me again."
I din't want to say it earlier, nor do I want to make it pont of the discussion now (because it is not), but fire your hw purchase guy (I hope it was not you ...). If he knew that core of your business relies on Jumbo frames, why didn't he bother checking the specs of the ethernet chipsets? Doesn't sound like something I'd take for granted when dealing with any kind of a vendor .... Just out of curiosity, what would your company end up purchasing if you knew that these machines cannot do Jumbo frames? Doesn't sound like you had a lot of choice if you wanted to stick with OS X platform, except to pony up more cash for Mac Pro (and Apple knows it darn well ... you hate them for things like that, but at the same time they do know how to play the game, you've got to admit that; "We screwed you, so go away if you don't like it ......" I hate you, but I cannot leave your platform and you know it, so shut up!).
I'm the director of IT, enterprise wide.
You're correct, we don't have much choice, try telling a graphic desigher or art director they have to work on a Linux or windows machine(the software we use will work on all 3 platforms).
We required a mobile platform as well, so the Mac Pro workstation wasn't an option.
EVERY piece of apple hardware since the G4 platform has had jumbo frame capability, I have a G4 iMac and G4 mac mini at home that supports this capability.
I think everyone would take it for granted that a front line 1000cc sportbike from one of the big 4 would have fuel injection, if Honda released the new CBR1000 with carbs and told anyone that wanted to return the bike to get stuffed, there would probably be a bit of a stink.
The ethernet chipset technically has the ability to support the larger frame sizes, Apple has just chosen to eliminate the functionality.
As for the reseller, they have it worse with Apple than the end user, our reseller was told they would have to eat the cost of the units we returned.
You're correct, we don't have much choice, try telling a graphic desigher or art director they have to work on a Linux or windows machine(the software we use will work on all 3 platforms).
We required a mobile platform as well, so the Mac Pro workstation wasn't an option.
EVERY piece of apple hardware since the G4 platform has had jumbo frame capability, I have a G4 iMac and G4 mac mini at home that supports this capability.
I think everyone would take it for granted that a front line 1000cc sportbike from one of the big 4 would have fuel injection, if Honda released the new CBR1000 with carbs and told anyone that wanted to return the bike to get stuffed, there would probably be a bit of a stink.
The ethernet chipset technically has the ability to support the larger frame sizes, Apple has just chosen to eliminate the functionality.
As for the reseller, they have it worse with Apple than the end user, our reseller was told they would have to eat the cost of the units we returned.
I guess someone works for apple here
FYI - 169.0.0.0/8 is an internet routable subnet with the exception of the 169.254.0.0/16 range. (RFC 5735 - http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5735.txt)
Any expansion slots to add-on a secondary nic? Have you tried to force old drivers that supported gf's?
Poser
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last time i checked, this is a forum.
a forum for bikers, and to me..... bikers is a brotherhood,..... we nod or wave to each other as we pass by on the street.
and i am sharing a bit of info to my brothers, who doesn't know, don't research, but can come in this thread and read away, and be in the know.....you can only do so much in a day.
just like i can go to a different thread and learn something, that i don't care to research.....but the title caught my eye, and now im in the know.
for the record, i don't work for apple.
Expansion slots on a MAC?? Come now, that would not be pleasing to the eye, and could never be done.
A few desperate individuals have tried teaming 2 USB Gig-E adapters together, but there is no possible way they'll see the require speeds with USB 2.0 ports.
