I find I’m pretty much using the same applications over and over on my desktop machine. I also like to keep a fairly small Dock, which makes this little tweak very usfull for me.
The code below creates a stack right in your Dock that will contain your most recently used applications. If, like me, you’ve got all sorts of rubbish in your Applications folder, this will come in handy for finding the apps you use the most as it should always contain the applications you actually use !
Fire up Terminal and paste in the following:
defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add ‘{ “tile-data” = { “list-type” = 1; }; “tile-type” = “recents-tile”; }’
killall Dock
The ‘killall Dock’ should make your Dock restart, complete with the new stack.
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Interesting idea! I’m sure it’s very useful for some people.
Personally I use Quicksilver for everything anyway so I never need to touch my Applications folder.
@Shaun – I’ve also started using Quicksilver, though I keep forgetting I’ve got it installed ! Yes, I’m a muppet.
I got this response
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `}’
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@Graham, I’ve not seen that error before. Are you using Leopard ?
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