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Leopard Dock
What is the most important element of your Mac computer? I will properly say the dock. Whenever you want to open an application, you have to go to the dock.
Do you know the Leopard Dock is just making up of some PNG files? It is easy for everyone to change his or her own dock.
Here is a homepage for everyone to share and present their dock design for Mac.
http://www.leoparddocks.com/index.php
This site will show you how to make your own dock, so you can design your unique dock and use in your own Mac. It will also show you how to change the dock from the original one after you have design your own dock.
How To Change Leopards Dock
Go to Macintosh HD > /System/Library/Core Services/
Right-Click on "Dock" and select "Show Package Contents"
Go to /Contents/Resources/
Backup the files you are about to replace (Incase you did not listen, here they are)
Move those same original files to the trash
Move the files you downloaded to that folder
Open Terminal and type "killall Dock" (without the quotes)
View your nice new dock.
How To Make Leopards Dock 2D
Open Terminal
Type: defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES
Hit the return key
Then type: killall Dock
Hit the return key
To return to the original dock simply follow the steps above replacing "YES" with "NO"
Here is another web site about people playing with the dock through programming with jQuery.
http://www.ndesign-studio.com/blog/mac/css-dock-menu
