Quick tip here about how to add a recent item stack to your dock. This takes about 2 mins top; Open up Terminal (this is in the Utilities folder inside Applications) Type in the line of code below (you can just copy and paste it) defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add '{ "tile-data" = { "list-type" = 1; }; "tile-type" = "recents-tile"; }' Then refresh your dock by adding the line below: killall Dock Once the stack is created, control-click on it to reveal a contextual menu that lets you pick between recent applications, documents, servers, volumes, and items. See told you...

Just a quick update to my previous entry on how to make the stacks look pretty. Rather than downloading FileXaminer I decided to modify the dates myself so all you now need to do is drop them into your stack and click arrange by date modified. It’s as simple as that!! enjoy. To download the updated icons click here!

Here is a REALLY simple way to tidy up your stacks in Leopard. The basis for the idea was found over at XD’s blog. By default the stack will show the icon of the newest entry to the containing folder. The basic idea is to use a nice icon to always show in the stack, rather than the cluttered ‘mess‘ you see at present. We could simply add an icon and rename the icon to ‘aa’ and select sort by name for the stack. This isn’t exactly perfect as the whole idea of stacks is to show the most recent items of a folder for quick retreival. The original idea was to edit...