Using Mac Dock and Mac Dock Tricks

One of the distinguishing features of the Mac, the Dock is a handy tool to access your favourite applications with a single click without having to close or minimise any running application. It offers seamless interchangeability and access to whatever you have on it which can be your browser, movie player, word editor....anything.
The following are a few simple Mac Dock tricks which you can use to make your computing experience a much more interesting experience.

Shortcuts
These are a few handy Dock shortcuts. Cmd-Click shows the application in the Finder window. Cmd-Option-Click hides all the applications except the current one. Use Cmd-Option-D to toggle the show hide on the Dock.

Dictionary
While using any Mac application, you can hover your mouse over a word in the file and press Ctrl-Cmd-D on the keyboard and the dictionary description for that word will appear instantly. Moving the mouse to any other word will show the description of that word and the best part is that you don't need to have the dictionary open! 

Invert Screen
Invert Screen is a cool Mac Dock trick that you must try out. By pressing Ctrl-Option-Cmd-8 on the keyboard, you can invert the colours of the Mac, resulting in a really impressive effect, though it can become boring at times.

Slow motion
To minimize the window, one simply has to press the yellow button on the top left corner. The window goes down quickly to the right end of the dock. However, an interesting trick can be used by holding down the shift key while pressing the yellow button and the window minimises five times slower than normal.

Text Clipping
A piece of text from an open document like a web page can be saved in this really cool manner. Select the text and drag it to the desktop. That's it! It gets saved. To add it somewhere like in an e-mail, simply click on the file on the desktop and drag it into the composed mail.

Secret Info
After minimising the Finder window in the Doc, go to the menu View and click the Show view options. On selecting the Show Item Info and you will get additional information about any file!

Disable Password
On setting up the Mac OS, the Setup Assistant asks you for a password. If you don't key in a password and just leave it blank, it won't ever ask you for a Password again. This can be a good idea on a Mac which you know no one else is going to use. In such a case, having to key in a password everytime can be a pain.

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