Today we bring you a great freeware app that allows you to easily change the color of your dock. We also show you how to add in spacers between applications to fine-tune your layout, and we announce the winners of the Art Text 2 software giveaway!
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DockColor:
http://dockcolor.en.softonic.com/mac
Dock Spacers terminal code:
defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add ‘{tile-data={}; tile-type=”spacer-tile”;}’
killall Dock
Background design courtesy of http://www.youtube.com/pixelcreativity
Congrats to the Art Text giveaway winners: Twitter users davidltorres, lexonex, & tearjack!
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The code snippet does not work when pasted directly into Terminal. It’s due to the fact that the quotes are c/p’ed as “curly quotes”.
In Terminal you can fix it by deleting the quotes and entering them manually
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Otherwise an amazing tip! I’ve been suing blank icons before, but it was pretty annoying when you accidentally clicked on one.
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Thanks for the handy tip!