Comments on: 5 Uses For Stacks You May Not Have Thought Of [Mac]

By: scratic

scratic — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 15:05:13 +0000

Try this for the recent items stack:
defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add ‘{ “tile-data” = { “list-type” = 1; }; “tile-type” = “recents-tile”; }’
follow it with the killall Dock and you’re good

By: David Evans

David Evans — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:29:49 +0000

I’ve tried to move the dock to the bottom of the screen, but it never lasts more than a few hours. Muscle memory and the fact that on a 24 inch monitor or laptop screen what we have is width to work with, not height, so I keep the dock on the right-hand side.

I don’t like that clicking anything in a stack seems to open it up in the finder. Adding frequently-accessed folders to the finder sidebar is a much more usable solution for me.

I will keep checking out tricks like this, maybe snow leopard will do it for me.

By: Snehal

Snehal — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:50:05 +0000

I am using to create stacks with shortcuts for various purpose. Like a stack for iLife suite. a stack for office, which lists all the office applications. A stack of utilities, which I generally use frequently like Jing, 1Password, Evernote etc. Also, I have 1 stack for the Remote Desktop Connections for my client sites.

By: Jackson

Jackson — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 05:58:17 +0000

Let me know if it works or not, I found a backup Applescript which will do the same thing.

By: Jackson

Jackson — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 05:57:04 +0000

It works for me. Did you copy and paste it?

defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add ‘{ “tile-data” = { “list-type” = 1; }; “tile-type” = “recents-tile”; }’

By: chase

chase — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 01:33:27 +0000

I can’t get the recent stack to work I get
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `}’