These useful tips should help any Mac user get a little more from OS X’s Dock.

Learn the basics

It’s worth taking the time to explore what you already have, read this guide to Dock Essentials, as this collection is a little more advanced and requires your use Terminal.

Bigger icons

Perhaps you’d like to make the icons in your Dock much larger than you can by default? In Terminal type:

defaults write com.apple.dock largesize -int 512; killall Dock

Hit Return and increase the size of the icons. You can use numbers larger than 512, but you’ll find most app icons look lousy when you do. This is how to make a Mac more usable for partially sighted people. To reset it back to normal type

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