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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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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
icerabbit said 3:22PM on 4-13-2007
Maybe the videos could not be self-starting / auto-loading?
The TUAW blog is heavy enough as it is.
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Evan Rose said 3:38PM on 4-13-2007
You can also hold down the option key while resizing to get the optimum sizes.
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andy said 3:55PM on 4-13-2007
wow, now that stalls safari, im not liking 101 already
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Mike said 4:33PM on 4-13-2007
Sorry guys! The embedded video is now an optional link.
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Rafe H. said 10:58PM on 4-13-2007
I 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.
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Mark Thomas said 11:13PM on 4-13-2007
It snaps to 48x48 too, plus a few sizes between 64 and 128.
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Kris said 3:17AM on 4-14-2007
Why has nobody mentioned this?
http://www.apple.com/support/mac101/
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Andrew Falconer said 9:15AM on 4-15-2007
jesus 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.
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Michael Rose said 9:52AM on 4-15-2007
#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.
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