Operator: Mac 411, how can I help you?
Male: Yes, hi. I love the 3D dock on the Mac OS X. However, I would love to learn more about it like for example, how can I make the dog smaller?
Operator: Let me show you how
Okay. Here we are in my desktop. Let us go to the dock and you can see my dock right here. You can make the dock larger or smaller by clicking on this line right here and dragging your mouse down to make it smaller or dragging your mouse up to make it larger. If you do the same thing but you hold the option key and you do that, it will actually get smaller or larger in increments versus the smooth without holding with the option key. So, this is making it smaller and larger without the option key. This is holding the option key down, and you can see, it actually changes size and increments.
Another neat trick that you can do is if you click on the shift key—and for example, I am going to go with my stacks here, these are stacks, I am going to hold my shift key and then click on a stack, it will actually go in slow motion. So, it is pretty neat to see. Gradually, there is really no functionality using that but it is kind of neat. So, if you close it up again, it will close down the slow motion.
Another shortcut for the dock is the magnification. As you can see, as I move my mouse over, my icons are magnified. Now, I have that turned on by default. But let us say that you want to overwrite that. What you do is you ctrl+shift and then it goes back to the opposite or you would have it as default. Since I have mine as magnification on, it will actually turn it off. What I am going to do is I am going to right click and then I am going to say turn magnification off. And then you see that my dock has no magnification. But if I ctrl+shift and then drag my mouse over it, it will temporarily turn on magnification. Again, the ctrl+shift is only a toggle and it will only do the opposite of which you have it as default.
A couple more shortcuts that are interesting. If you hold the command key and then click on a stack, it will direct you directly to the finder of where that stock is located. And to be honest with you, actually, if you click on any icon, it will take you to the finder. If you hold the command key and click on for example, you have parallels desktop running. Click on that, it opens up my finder and shows me exactly where parallels desktop is. Again, to see where the file or stack is located, just hit the command key and then click on it and it will bring up your finder and shows you exactly where that is located. Now of course in stacks, you can just select your stack and go to show in finder and it will be the same thing but this is nice to have as a quick shortcut.
The last thing that I wanted to show you was holding down the command key and then drag in an icon out of the dock. And what happens when you do that—I am going to go ahead and do this here. What I am doing here is that I am dragging it out by holding command and then dragging the icon to the desktop. When I let go, it actually took the folder or the stack that was located under my Macintosh hard drive stacks and moved it to the desktop. So that is a way to do—go ahead and do that. What I am going to do is that I am going to go ahead and place it back into my stacks so it is back there.
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