Getting To Know Your Mac

After I dragged approximately 15 applications to my Dock everything I saw was a line of icons. Horrible line of icons that weren't organized in any way. I would definitely need some separators.

So I clicked my secondary mouse button on the dock and tried to find a way to add separators from the settings menu. No luck. There's no such thing.

After some heavy Googleing around I found a solution:

1. Open up your terminal
2. Paste following text into terminal (in one line)
   defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add '{ "tile-type" = "spacer-tile"; }'
3. Enter killall Dock

Your Dock closes and re-appears with one separator. You can drag that separator anywhere you want inside the Dock. If you want to delete a separator, just drag it outside the Dock.

Not so simple but now I can find the right icon and not spend half a day looking for it.

Note: This applies to Mac OS X 10.5.4 (Leopard)