Hello MacTalkers and may I welcome you to the new series, ‘MacTalk Tutorials’

Every week or so, I will be covering some of the most requested tutorials, plus some interesting ones. They may consist of a few small ones, or sometimes a more complex one. This week, I have a few basic tips which you can use to tweak the Dock on your Mac.

If you want to suggest a tutorial which has been asked for so many times on the forum, or even some further questions or feedback, please don’t hesitate to contact me by sending me a message on the forums or by leaving a comment on this post.

Please read on for the tweaks, Enjoy!

1. Changing your Dock to 2D

Getting sick of your old Glass Dock and want to try something new easily? All it takes is a simple Terminal command.

Open up Terminal and type in the following exactly:

defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES; killall Dock

If you want to change back to the original Glass Dock, simply replace the ‘YES’ with ‘NO’.

That’s all there is, you now have a simple 2D dock! Now if you want to take it further, you can customise your dock a lot more using other applications such as CandyBar by The Icon Factory. Though, that process will be covered in a future article.

2. Enabling a highlight in your Stacks

Ever wanted your Stacks to be a bit clearer? Well, you can enable a highlight of the file that your cursor is hovering over. Again, all it takes is a simple Terminal command.

Open up Terminal and type in the following exactly:

defaults write com.apple.dock mouse-over-hilite-stack -boolean YES

Then:

killall Dock

If you want to turn this off at anytime, simply replace the ‘YES’ with ‘NO’.

And there you have it, a highlighted Stack!

That’s all for this week. Again, if you have any suggestions, questions or feedback, please message me on the forums or comment on this post!