Jun 03, 2017 Organize Apps in Dock on Your Mac. The above two hacks will help you to organize your apps inside your Mac’s Dock. The first hack will help you group the apps together for easy access and the second one will allow you to add more apps to the Dock without cluttering it.
Dock Dodger is a free drag-and-drop tool that can hide certain apps from the Dock even when they're running (once placed on the tool's droplet, you have to restart the app in question to hide it. As long as you have Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks, you can have the dock and icons that come with Yosemite, all the while sticking with the stability of your current OS. Download the Essentials. We need to download all the essentials that allow us to modify our Mac icons and dock. Dec 06, 2016 15 of the Best Mac Hacks to Simplify Your Life. The Dock appears at the bottom of your Mac’s screen by default. You can reposition, change, magnify, and customize the icons in the Dock by clicking the Apple icon on the upper left corner of your screen and choosing System Preferences Dock. MacOS Dock tricks articles. Another simple Terminal hack that turns the Dock into more of a straightforward app switcher by making it display only apps that are currently running on your Mac. Apr 19, 2018 Change Mac Dock Color. The very first thing that you want to do is turn off System Integrity Protection (SIP).Detailed instructions on how to do so are available here. Once System Integrity Protection has been disabled on your Mac, you can now make changes to the Dock files, and essentially change the Mac Dock’s color.
| Date | 1986-2004 |
|---|---|
| Location | Ann Arbor, Michigan |
| Organized by | Expotech, Inc |
MacHack was a Macintosh software developers conference first held in 1986 in Ann Arbor, Michigan in partnership with the University of Michigan. The conference was organized and operated by Expotech, Inc. The final (18th) MacHack conference took place on June 19–21, 2003. In 2004 the conference was renamed ADHOC (The Advanced Developers Hands On Conference). 2005 was the last year of the ADHOC conference.
History[edit]
The conference was atypical of computer conferences in many ways. Keynotes were generally delivered at midnight. The focus of the conference was less on attending sessions and more on developing 'hacks': displays of programming, scripting, configuration, or other techie prowess. Hacks were presented in a raucous Friday night show and recognized at a Saturday banquet. The best-received hacks were those developed on-site during the three-day conference, and those that embodied both remarkable technical skill and utter impracticality. Hacks that were perceived as having some utility value were penalized.[1]
Rather than being held in a vibrant or popular location, the first MacHacks were held in the Holidome in Ann Arbor, Michigan. After a few years, the conference tried one year at what has become known as the MacHack from Hell. Subsequent MacHacks were held in an indistinct Holiday Inn along the Southfield Freeway in Dearborn, Michigan, adjacent to a CompUSA, a Wendy's, a Chili's, and not much else.
One of the key events each year was Bash Apple,[2][3][4] typically involving one or more brave souls from Apple taking feedback from the angry mob, sometimes for hours on end. Jordan Mattson was one such Apple representative, engaging so regularly and earnestly that the phrase 'It's all Jordan's fault' became a mantra of MacHack.
The MacHax Group held the First Annual MacHax Group Best Hack Contest at the second MacHack in 1987.[5] The Hack Show generally started at midnight, and ran as late as 5AM. Prizes were awarded to many of the contestants, generally inexpensive and tangentially related to the name or nature of the hack. Unbeknownst to most of the attendees, a key goal of prize selection was to see just how outrageous items could be and still have contestants being willing to take them home. During the Dearborn years, the official and beloved hardware store and key purveyor to the contest organizers was Duke's Hardware. Winners were selected by ballot at lunch later that same day, and awards awarded at dinner. The top prize was the coveted Victor-brand rat trap modified to say 'A-trap'. A-trap is a reference to the Motorola 68000 A-trap exception mechanism which Apple used to great effect in the creation of Macintosh[6] and provided the foundation for much of the hacking enjoyed by attendees.
MacHack's small, informal ethic, and on-site coding challenges have been carried on by a number of conferences; for example, the C4 conference was explicitly created as an attempt to fill the void left by the end of MacHack.[7]
Conference mantras[edit]
- Sleep is for the weak and sickly
- Kill Dean's INITs
- It's all Jordan's fault
- Who makes the rules?
- MARKETING!!!
- 72 Hours Caffeine and Code
Keynote notables[edit]
- Original Macintosh development team reunion: Andy Hertzfeld, Randy Wiggington, Daniel Kottke, Caroline Rose, Jef Raskin and Bill Atkinson - 2001[8][9] Scheduled to appear, but unable to attend: Guy 'Bud' Tribble, Bruce Horn[10]
- Eric Raymond - 2000 'open source sermon'[11]
- Steve Wozniak - 1997, 2001[12][13]
- Ted Nelson (who may still be speaking in the Savoy Room)
Notable hacks[edit]
Incomplete list of 1987 hacks[edit]
- Animated Icon in Finder by Roy Leban
- HeapInit by Fritz Anderson
- SetPaths by Paul Snively
- The Best Hack Implemented in a Nonexistent Product by Darin Adler, Mitch Adler, Leonard Rosenthal, and Paul Snively. It was written using HyperCard, at the time an unreleased product codenamed WildCard.
- Best Power Hack by Mother Nature and NASA. A lightning strike unexpectedly launched three missiles.
1994 Best Hack[edit]
- 5th place: Metwowerks New & Improved, an addition to Metrtwerks Code Warrior development environment.
- 4th place: Stargate arcade game emulation.
- 3rd place: NewTablet, which turns a Newton into a mouse replacement for a Macintosh.
- 2nd place: POArk, Pong Open Architecture; supports any number of players on different operating systems.
- 1st place and winner of the coveted A-Trap award: FEZ by Doug McKenna, demonstrates an advanced set of ZoomRect techniques. [1]
1998 Best Hack[edit]
- 6th place: Switcher 98
- 5th place: Spotlight
- 4th place: Phaseshift
- 3rd place: 180 Years of Hack
- 2nd place: OFPong
- 1st place and winner of the coveted A-Trap award: asciiMac by Alexandra Ellwood and Miro Jurisic [2][3]
TidBITS coverage of 1998 MacHack: https://tidbits.com/article/4972
1999 Best Hack[edit]
- 5th place: PatchMaker by Paul Baxter.
- 4th place: MacJive by Ned Holbrook and Jorg Brown.
- 3rd place: Desktop Doubler by Ed Wynne.
- 2nd place: Out of Context Menus by Eric Traut
- 1st place and winner of the coveted A-Trap award: Unfinder by Lisa Lippincott
Complete list of 1999's hacks and a conference report.[14]
Incomplete list of 2000 hacks[edit]
- Doggie-Style Windows (best yoot hack)
- L33t like Jeff K (best OS X hack)
- EtherPEG
- Los Alamos Security
- Monitor Doubler
- Vertigo
- Dock Strip
Complete list of 2001 hacks[edit]
- 99 Bottles Hack
- Airport Radar(tm)
- AntiLib
- APLocation
- Apple Turnover
- AquaShade
- AquaWriter
- asciishopsource
- Beeper
- BOFH
- Buzzy
- Carol Goodell's Hack 2001
- Cat Juggler
- CDaemon
- Chia Windows X
- Chris Page's Hacks
- Crrrhaack
- Crypt-Oh
- CSFinalHack Module
- D-Trash
- DarkWaver ƒ
- DFA Doubler
- Dr. Cheshire's PPPoE Server
- DSPanic
- Eudora Stat Server
- F1Hack
- FWMacsBug
- GeniusBar ƒ
- GhostFinder
- GrowBoxDock
- Hackable AirPort Network Seeker
- Heep Peeker ƒ
- HelloTree
- HFS-
- Hunter's Hacks
- iBook turbo switch
- ImageToHtml (transformed an image into an HTML table composed of 1x1 pixel cells)
- iTunes (HACKED)
- iTunes Dock Dance Plugin
- iTunes Remote
- iWake
- Juggler
- Kilroy
- King of Swing
- Light Sleeper
- Mac OS X Patching Docs
- MacCleo
- Max's MADLIB from Hell
- Mentat
- More Prefs 1.0 ƒ
- MrMacintosh
- musicPrompter
- Network Alias
- NotEnoughSecrets
- NQCYA
- OurHack
- PageFido
- Palm Finder 2
- PalmDock
- PaperMaker
- PhaseShiftX
- Pied Piper ƒ
- PigLatin Folder
- pixelZone
- Polyhedra
- Pro Mousing
- pseudoDoc
- Saton Vs. Little Red RidingHood
- Silly String
- Spear Britney
- SpellCompositor
- Talking Steve
- TECalc ƒ
- TEPeste ƒ
- TheWeakestLink
- Throbber
- TiVo(tm) for QuickTime TV(tm)
- Tricycle (Lego Mindstorm(tm))
- Unprotected Memory
- Useful Hack
- X-Menu 2.0
Complete list of 2002 hacks[edit]
- HaikuReporter
- DockDockGoose
- newstracker
- LCD Degauss
- ClassicEdge
- ACursor
- Carol Goodell Hack 2002
- Xydra 0.1
- TuXin
- Starbanger
- BreakoutLevelEditor
- SlowDown
- Clarus all over
- WatchCow
- Lightnin'
- Dude,You're Getting a DogCow
- VIMim
- iBacklight
- Mr Lo
- Dock&Roll
- Load Minimizer
- Billy Carnage 1.0
- OpenGirL
- Project Mayhem
- Alarm Clock
- The Cat's Meow
- somersault
- Oh What A Hack
- The Iron Hack
- penguin gear (pres)
- Dock Invaders
- AniMac
- MOOF through the ROOF
- Airport Security 2002
- Shard
- aurport extender blender
- lcdSTAT!
- Ye Olde Movie
- Metadata
- airmoof
- Utility Scoring Stye (pres)
- Little Brother
- Mike's Moof
- 3DogCow
- VideoFinder (not on CD)
- Jini Network Technology
- iMovie Hack
- Mac Enforcer
- JITObjectiveC
- InformedChoiceChooserFacelft
- nocat
- mosaiHack
- JNib
- iMenu
- APPLE VIDEO SAVER
- SleepItemsX
- DogcowMenu
- IconHunter IV ƒ
- Depth Perception
- Claris Coaster
- RCX Remote Control
- FireStarter
- dukeshardware.com
- HandMatrix
- OldSchoolEdit
Complete list of 2003 hacks[edit]
- Editable SPOD
- Jet Lag
- Haunter
- Sparkie
- Unstoppable Progress: Causes a progress bar to be filled with water.
- Desktop Control Panel Extension
- Secret Life of Apple Logo
- Stinkin Badges
- SPOD was here
- EdgeWarp
- DADEL
- GUI Kablooie
- AirPong
- ClickAndAHalf
- warphack
- underthedesktop
- DecryptErrorMessage
- FishEyeMenus
- Antiqualc
- SetiMonitor
- X-MENu 2 Unexpected End of File
- WTA Death Watch
- wait
- CyberCat
- Interface UnBuilder
- QTJGrab
- Script Adventure
- MagicLocalizer
- GLCheat
- iPod Adventure
- Spinning Clock of Death
- Cocoa DocTour
- Desktop Control Panel Extension
- Size Doesn't Matter
- The Boot
- mountxml
- iTunes Control
- iTunes Location Launcher
- Gnomes
- SEV
- iAnalyseThis
- MoodRing
- Packetplay
- Packet the Magic Dragon
- spuds
- alCrashda
- iPodRip was built at MacHack but not demonstrated as a hack
Mostly Complete list of 2004 hacks[edit]
- BadBadThing
- EtherPEGCocoa - A program that showed any JPEG images coming across the network (even by other users) in a window. A screensaver version was also produced.
- EULB Extension Program - A program that simulates a 2004-era iBook logic board error that results in screen flashing on Macs that don't have that issue.
- ExposéHopper - Turn on Expose and jump from window to window with a little figure.
- FrodoFinder
- Magic 8 Ball
- MailToOnCrash
- MegaManEffect - Shows the mega man intro whenever you start an application
- Neko Returns
- NotTheSameOldTrash
- Rumor Mill
- Scroll Plate - Hold a paper plate with an up-pointing red or down-pointing green arrow on it in front of the webcam and your Mac will scroll in that direction.
- SmartMouth
- SpellingB
- Stupid Shell Tricks 2004 - A bunch of shell scripts that do fun things, like one that would open/close the CD tray on Macs in the next room in a choreography.
- Talkicity - An app that used various Talking Moose animations and ran a conversation between them in a window.
- Temporary Items
- Unsummarize - A service plugin that takes a piece of text and makes it longer, seemingly doing the reverse of the system's 'summarize' service.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^'MacHack FAQ'.
Hacks that don't demo well seldom win, even if they're incredibly cool. Hacks that actually have some value usually lose votes for being 'useful'.
- ^Dave Winer MacHack conference report
- ^TidBITS Talking Back to Apple at MacHack, 13 Sep 1999
- ^Dave Feldt MacHack conference report, 1987
- ^1987 MacHack conference report
- ^Hertzfeld, Andy. 'Cut, Paste and Crash'. folklore.org. Retrieved November 24, 2018.
- ^Jonathan Rentzsch, C4: Chicago Mac Developer ConferenceArchived 2010-01-06 at the Wayback Machine, September 08, 2006
- ^http://www.macworld.com/article/1018082/machack.amp.html
- ^https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/49408-machack-meeting-to-reunite-first-mac-team
- ^https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/49474-mac-creators-debate-os-x
- ^http://www.linuxtoday.com/developer/2000062300620OSCL
- ^http://www.macworld.com/article/1018082/machack.amp.html
- ^https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/49408-machack-meeting-to-reunite-first-mac-team
- ^1999 hacks and conference report
- MacAddict magazines
- The Institute (IEEE, Piscataway, New Jersey); Volume 18 number 6, September 1994; page 16, 'After 5' column
External links[edit]
- Official Site note the ironic catchphrase
- Official FAQ last updated April 7, 2003
- 180 Years of Hack PD Magnus' brilliant historical examination, circa 1998.
- Will Hack for Food! Coverage of MacHack from 1998 through 2005 from TidBITS
With many of us having new Macs here or on the way, it’s a good time to do some housekeeping: tidying up your existing Mac ready for a restore from Time Machine, or to think about how you want to organize your new machine if setting it up from scratch. (Cue comments war on which is the better approach …)
One thing I do is a periodic rejig of my dock, to ensure it contains the apps I use most frequently, and to keep them in some kind of logical order.
Adding spacers to the dock helps a lot when it keeps to keeping things organized. This isn’t a standard macOS feature, but I think it should be …
If you look at my own dock, I have four logical groupings:
- on the left, the core apps I use all the time (Safari, Postbox, Notes and so on)
- next, the main additional apps I use for my 9to5Mac duties (Vienna, Slack, Tweetdeck, etc)
- third, the apps I use for creative work in my spare time (including Scrivener, Lightroom, Final Cut Pro)
- finally, the other apps I use on a regular basis in a ‘miscellaneous’ grouping
My lesser-used apps I access via Spotlight, but I prefer the Dock for the ones I use all the time, both for convenience and to see which ones are open.
Once you’ve added one or more spacers to your dock, moving them around works exactly like apps – just drag them to where you want them. But getting them there in the first place requires a clunky terminal hack.
It’s not difficult, you just paste the following code into Terminal:
followed by:
To add more than one spacer, simply repeat as many times as required.
But this isn’t an ideal approach for two reasons. First, many non-tech Mac users don’t even know what Terminal is, and are nervous about using it if you explain it to them. Second, it’s a nuisance to do it this way because it re-opens all your minimized windows along the way.
So, as a tiny feature request, I’d like to see Apple add this as a standard option. The obvious place to do so it to make ‘Add a spacer’ an additional menu item when you right-click on the divider:
Mac Dock Hide
What do you think? As ever, let us know your thoughts in the comments. If you have any other features you’d like to see added to macOS, do let us know those, and perhaps those will make it into a future Feature Request.
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