Quick Look Stacks and Spotlight in Lion

In Lion, you can now use Apple's amazing Quick Look facility for a quick preview of files in Stacks or within your spotlight search. To do so, simply mouseover on the item within the stack or the spotlight search drop down, and press the spacebar to 'Quick Look' the file.

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New List View in Stacks

List View in Stacks

Stacks are the little folder icons in your Dock on the right hand side which provide you with quick and easy access to any file in those folders. By default, they are set to "automatic" wherein they display items of the folder in 'Fan' or 'Grid' mode depending on the number of files in the folder. Alternatively, you can also choose to display it in 'List' mode which is a neat and organized view of all the files. Sadly though, it lacks eye candy. But what if we could add the visual effects ? To add these effects simply Open 'Terminal' ( Applications --> Utilities ) and type in the following -

defaults write com.apple.dock use-new-list-stack -bool YES && killall Dock

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Stacks on Mac

Fan in the form of a stack

What are stacks on Mac ?
Stacks on Mac provide an easy way to access folders right from your Dock. These folders are positioned to the right of your Dock seperator. You can add stacks to the Dock by simply dragging a folder here. You can view these stacks in the form of a fan, grid, list or let Mac decide.

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Enable Gradiented Background in Stacks on Mouseover.

This gradiented background in stack on Leopard or Snow Leopard can be achieved through terminal.

Open Terminal and type -

defaults write com.apple.dock mouse-over-hilite-stack -boolean yes

- Shiv ( controlyourmac.com )

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