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OS X Leopard Tip: Add an Applications stack to the dock
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One of the best things within in OS X is the dock. Its a great way to keep all of your favorite applications in an organized way right at your finger tips. Sometimes it gets a little crowed on that dock to have all of your programs on there, but with the recent addition of stacks its now easier than ever to get all of your apps on the dock in a great organized way.
- Open up the finder
- Click on your hard drive, it should be the first icon under Devices
- Now you should see the Applications folder
- Drag and drop that folder next to the Downloads and Documents stack.
Now you should have an icon on the dock with an application on it, its going to be organized alphabetically, now click the stack and you will see all of your applications
3 Comments
Josh
April 3rd, 2008
at 10:08am
That’s a great tip. If I add an empty folder to the dock as a stack source, is there a way to add only specific programs to that folder, picked hodge-podge from within Applications?
Thus far, the only way that I’ve been able to do this is to do a full copy of the program from the source into the stacks folder. I’m just switching over from a PC, so I’m a bit out of sorts — but is there something akin to a “shortcut” that I can use?
Felix
October 30th, 2008
at 4:00pm
I am sure there is probably a more practical way to do it, but you could make alias’s of each application and save them to a folder and then drop that into the stack.. that way you would only have the applications you wanted in the stack
Brenda
August 25th, 2009
at 5:24pm
I’ve been trying to figure out how to do this for weeks. I kept dragging the shortcut under Places which didn’t work. Never thought to grab the original folder, duh.
Thanks.