if you have a bunch of commonly used applications on your Mac OS X Dock, the long stretch of icons...

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if you have a bunch of commonly used applications on your Mac OS X Dock, the long stretch of icons makes the Dock looks cluttered and chances are, you’d find it hard to locate the application that you want to launch. i know it sounds silly but it happens. sometime we have to strain our eyes to locate the application even if it’s there on the Dock. a neat way is to add blank separators to visibly break the icons up into groups. for those who wants to be even more organized, this clever organization of the icons combined with the used of Spaces, also helps in monitoring what’s open in each of the Spaces too.

to add the blank separator, you will need to call up your Terminal and enter the following command to add a single spacer.

defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add '{ "tile-type" = "spacer-tile";}'

do take note of the ‘spaces’ as you enter the above command. one common mistake is entering of ‘spaces’ in the wrong places within the command line. having said that, it is advise that you have some form of knowledge in using Terminal and its commands to execute this tips.

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once, the above command is entered. just enter killall Dock to restart the Dock. after the Dock relaunched, you will notice a spacing has been created at the Dock. basically, the blank separator behaves like an invisible icon. therefore, all you have to do is click and drag the blank separator to where you want it to be or just drag it out of the Dock to remove it if don’t need it anymore.