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Clear just one Recent Items category

by Rob Griffiths on 25 January, 2010

The Recent Items entry in the Apple menu tracks recently-used applications, documents, and servers. At the bottom of the menu is an entry to clear all of your recent activity. But what if you want a more fine-grained control over removing entries from these lists? For example, say you want to remove one or…
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    Make 10.6′s List Stacks look like Grid Stacks

    by Rob Griffiths on 13 January, 2010

    If you use Stacks in Grid mode in OS X 10.6, and you’ve read this hint, then you know you navigate into (and out of) folders in Grid mode Stacks using the keyboard. If you use List mode Stacks, there’s no need for these techniques, because folders are opened automatically when you mouse over…
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    Keyboard navigation of Snow Leopard’s Stacks

    by Rob Griffiths on 18 September, 2009

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    Beginners start here: Stacking up

    by Sean McNamara on 21 January, 2008

    One of the most touted features of Mac OS X v10.5 (Leopard) is the concept of a "Stack" in the Dock. Stacks take the place of folders on the Dock -- in fact, they're just a different way of viewing folders placed on the Dock. Despite the fact that Stacks are just a view of…
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