~Quick OS X Leopard Dock Tip
I recently stumbled upon a feature of the Leopard dock I didn’t know existed. You can interactively resize the dock by dragging on the separator, (the dashed area on the dock that separates your applications from your folders) with your mouse. Make sure you drag vertically (up and down) not right and left. This is handy when you have so many running applications that the dock is covering up the desktop in undesired ways, as in the picture below which shows the clock getting covered up.
One other way to change the dock features, without going into preferences, is to right-click the separator (control+click for the one button mouse users) which will reveal a context menu of choices for the dock as shown below. This is a quick and easy way to turn dock hiding on and off.
This is not a new feature of Leopard, sorry. It’s been a dock feature since OS X first debuted.
Thanks for setting me straight Adam. I guess I just never noticed it in Tiger, my first foray into the Mac world. John
That’s really useful! I’d never noticed that feature. Thank you for the tip!