Seperator in dock in osx

Question

• I have placed too many icons in my dock.

• there is by default a separator in dock between applications & trash.

• I want to add more separators in my dock - for grouping purpose.

• say for example
  • finder, preview, itunes, system pref.,activity monitor FOR Mac osx group
  • Mozilla, safari - for Browsing group
  • Odesk, skype, ipmessanger, adium, team viewer for communication

Means, I just want to add separator to identify them very quickly.

Is it possible ? if yes - how ?

Thanks in advance for sharing your knowledge.

sagar

Answer 1

For 10.5+:

Run the following commands from the Terminal:

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

Once the dock restarts, you should see a blank space after the last application that is permanently in the Dock (before the icons for applications that are currently running but not always in the Dock).

You can now drag the empty spaces to where you want them, or right-click on them and select “Remove from Dock” if you no longer need them.

From http://www.zzamboni.org/brt/2007/11/21/real-separators-for-the-leopard-dock/