Mac Kindergarten

We already had a post on the Dock and how you can use it to see what’s going on. We also used the contextual menu of the Dock icons a bit.

But there is more to the icons in the Dock, as it might seem. When an application is running, try control-clicking its icon. This will reveal a set of basic commands for this application.

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The Dock is one of the main parts of your Mac OS X desktop. It consists of two major parts - the applications area and Stacks. They are divided, by a “highway strip”.

We already looked at, how to add a running application to the Dock. Now let’s see , how to add applications, without starting them at all. Furthermore we will learn how to manage Stacks.

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