To add a Recent Applications item to your Dock open Terminal.app and paste

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

If you right click on this new Stack then you will notice it can be several different types of stacks. It can be Recent Applications, Recent Documents, Recent Servers, Favorite Volumes, and Favorite Items. If you want to have more than one of these on your doc just run the …

Have you ever been around a bunch of Mac heads and one of them said a term you had no clue what it meant? Have you seen a description on a web site and seen a Mac related term you wanted more info about? Well with the new Leopard dictionary you can look up all of the Mac terms you want and get the definition right there.

If you use aliases often you might want to see where the original file is. Well, the way I always did it was to right click on the file and select "show original". Well, I have found a new, much better, way of doing this. All you have to do is hit Command-R, or, go to (in Finder) File>Show Original.

Over at XD they have a short walk through to make some standard icons for your stacks.

There was a termainal hack that let you do this but someone went ahead and took care of it for you. All you need to do is download the icons and then drag them into the folder you want them to show on the to of the stack. Example just drag the Downloads icon to the …

Next time you need to add up the shipping and handling charge on ebay instead of running over to the applications folder and finding calculator.app do the math in the spotlight menu bar. In the new version of spotlight, that came with Leopard, you can do a host of math problems right in the menu bar.

Over at the Mac Apper Weblog, Ben Miller has put together a nice tip to help limit the size of your “Open With” Menu.A problem I have had recently is one just small enough to get under the skin. Have you ever right-clicked and selected “Open With” on an image to open it with your favorite editor only to be bombarded with a list of applications you thought you removed ages ago?… The next time you right-click on an item and select “Open With” in the Finder, only current applications will be listed.

You can use an alias to, for instance, collect all files for a given client (Client XYZ) in one folder, even if your typical filing system is by project and not by client—just make an alias to each of the client’s files (using File -> New Alias or via Command-L), then drag each alias into a new “Client XYZ” folder.When you create an alias in OS X (File -> New Alias or Command-L), the alias’ icon displays with a small black arrow in the lower left hand corner…. For those who would like to get rid of the arrows, it’s surprisingly easy.Remove the alias badge completelyOpen Terminal, and copy and paste the following two commands (don’t copy the $, and press Return after each line):$ cd /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources$ sudo mv AliasBadgeIcon.icns AliasBadgeIcon_OFF.icnsThe above is for those running OS X 10.4; if you’re on OS X 10.3, change CoreTypes.bundle into SystemIcons.bundle and the rest should be the same.You’ll be prompted for your administrative password when you enter the second command; provide it when asked…. The system will then take care of setting the ownership and permissions back to their proper values on the AliasBadgeIcon.icns file.To return to the stock badge, just drag your second copy of the file back to the Resources folder and follow the same authenticate-and-replace process to replace the file (and restart the Finder again).

How Do I Change a File Name On my Windows machine to rename files I would click “Rename this file” in the File Tasks menu or right click on the file name and select “Rename”. On your Mac, click on any file (or folder) name, then click it again to display the name in a text box. Rename the item as you like by typing over the text.

Over at My First Mac they have put together a real nice list of tips to use Alias for.To see the full post click here.

It is Called Lose Control to Gain Command. It will be a very short tip for windows users who are just starting on the Mac and have the Questions I did this on my windows computer how do I do it on the Mac.For our First Tip How do I Close an Application?On windows I juct clicked on the “X” in the left cornor and the application was closed. On Your mac to close the application you will either use the Application Menu (This is the area just to the left of the apple logo on the top right of the menu bar where you will see the name of the application) Click on the Application Menu and select Quit, or you can just use the keyboard and type Command (⌘) Q at the same time.