• Mac OS X

    Stop the Bouncing!

    In Mac OS X, when an application is opening it will bounce in the dock. To tell it to stop doing so, you can edit the no-bouncing key of the com.apple.dock.plist file. To do so: defaults write com.apple.dock no-bouncing -boolean-neg

  • Mac OS X,  Mass Deployment

    Pinning Down Your Dock

    The Dock is, by default, anchored to the middle of the screen. However, in some environments you may want to have it skewed to one side of the screen. In order to do this Apple provides the ability to use pinning. Pinning will pin the dock to the start, end or middle; by default it’s pinned to the middle. If you pin the dock to the start and it’s either on the right or left side of the screen then it will appear to be skewed towards the top. If you pin it to the start and it’s on the bottom then it will skew to the left of the…