Mac 101: Quickly resize the Dock
Here's a Mac 101 tip for you: want to quickly resize your Dock? Just move your mouse to the vertical bar on the right (or bottom) side of the Dock, where it splits between application icons and minimized windows/the Trash, and drag... up/right to biggify, down/left for enhanced shrinkitude. Fun for all ages! Click the image or here for a movie demo.If you want to move the dock to a different side of the screen, try shift-dragging instead of just plain dragging.
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Here's a Mac 101 tip for you: want to quickly resize your Dock? Just move your mouse to the vertical bar on the right (or bottom) side of...
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#8 -- Andrew, you may have missed the introductory post for the 'Mac 101' series. These posts are intended as tips for novice users; since you're clearly a grizzled veteran, you should probably skip them.
April 15 2007 at 9:52 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyjesus christ, why bother making a post about this, do you think we're all idiots?
resizing the dock, bloody hard stuff that is!
there's so many good articles on this blog, but then also so many posts about easy things, like the article now on the front page "newsflash: os x uses drag and drop!!" informative reporting there.
Why has nobody mentioned this?
http://www.apple.com/support/mac101/
It snaps to 48x48 too, plus a few sizes between 64 and 128.
April 13 2007 at 11:10 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI second what Evan said. Holding down option while resizing will give non-interpolated icon sizes. Specifically, 16x16, 32x32, 64x64, and 128x128. At these sizes, the icons are their most crisp.
April 13 2007 at 10:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplySorry guys! The embedded video is now an optional link.
April 13 2007 at 4:22 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replywow, now that stalls safari, im not liking 101 already
April 13 2007 at 3:54 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyYou can also hold down the option key while resizing to get the optimum sizes.
April 13 2007 at 3:37 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyMaybe the videos could not be self-starting / auto-loading?
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