THE ONE-CLICK TRICK TO MOVING THE DOCK

THE ONE-CLICK TRICK TO MOVING THE DOCK

So you’re working in a program like Final Cut Pro or iMovie which takes up very vertical inch of the screen and when you go to adjust something near bottom the Dock keeps popping up. You could move the Dock to where it’s anchored on the left or right side of the screen but that just feels weird. But what if you could move it temporarily to the left or right and then get it back to the bottom when you close Final Cut Pro, in just once click? Here’s how: Hold the Shift key, click directly on the Dock’s divider line (on the far right side of the Dock), and drag the Dock to the left or right side of your screen. It moves over to the side. Then, once you quit Final Cut, just Shift-click on that divider line and slam it back to the bottom (dag it back to the bottom). A draggable Dock-is that cool or what!

WHAT’S WITH THE QUESTION MARK?

What does it mean if you see a large question mark icon in the Dock? I have no idea. That’s why there’s a question mark there. No one knows, not even Apple (kidding). What it means is that you deleted the original of whatever was in the Dock. For example, if you put a Dock icon for Microsoft Word in the Dock, but then deleted Word from your hard drive, the next time you click on that icon in the Dock, you’d see a question mark. So what do you do? Just drag it right off the Dock and it’s gone forever. No questions asked.

CHANGING APPS IN A BIG WAY

In Panther, if you don’t feel like moving your cursor all the way down to the Dock to change applications, you can easily rotate an open application to the front by pressing and holding Command tab. This brings up a large transparent Dock-like window in the center of your screen, with huge icons showing just your open applications. To switch to another application, keep holding the Command key and press either the Tab key, the Arrow keys on your keyboard, or click on the icons with your mouse. Also, you can press the Home key to jump to the application on the far left, or the End key to jump to the app on the far right. Want to cruise through the applications in this window in reverse (from right to left?) Just press Shift-Command-Tab.