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Want Hierarchical Menus In Stacks?

Can't wait for Apple to add a "list" view to stacks? Pinning away for hierarchical menus and the "good-old-days" of yesteryear?

Try OldFolder, an application by Justin Hawkwood that revives Tiger's old-school hierarchical menu interface for a docked folder.

Just run it, select the folder you want it to use and... boom! Now you can right-click your folder and navigate all of those tricky navigational submenus to your heart's content.

I guess old habits die hard.

Custom Stack Icons Tutorial

Since quite a few of you liked the Even BETTER Icons For Stacks quick tip, I thought I'd link you over to TUAW, which now has a tutorial for making your own customized drawer icons using nothing more than a blank drawer file and Preview.

Here's the link: UAW Tutorial: Custom Stack Drawer Icons

Quick Tip: Even BETTER Icons For Stacks

This version combines combines a custom set of icons with the file-within-a-folder technique illustrated in my previous tip, giving you a virtual set of file drawers that look a lot cleaner than Apple's file-pasted-on-the-folder design.

I've already changed my dock to use them and they look great.

I also think it's a bit funny that so many people are working so hard to change the look-and-feel of Stacks. That being the case, I think that Apple needs to listen to its customers and consider that maybe, just maybe, they got this one wrong. (Now if we could just figure out a way to get hierarchical menus back...)

Anyway, since this tip isn't mine I'll just link directly to it. Enjoy.

Stacks Overlays

Why Leopard’s Stacks Fail... And What To Do About It

New to OS X Leopard, "Stacks" has fans and foes alike, with questions on whether or not it's an improvement on Tiger's docked folders and popup menus hotly debated.

With a new post entitled "Why Leopard’s Stacks Fails", and with an "open letter" calling for Apple to bring back the old right-click hierarchical-menu implementation, the site StringFoo obviously falls into the foe category.

Why? Let's take a look.