Using Stacks in Mac OS X Leopard

Video Transcript

"My name is Brandon Sarkis on behalf of Expert Village. Today I'll be showing you some of the new features in Mac OS 10.5 Leopard. The next thing I want to show you is how to make your own stacks. The built in Apple help documentation isn't so helpful on this, so I figured I'd show you because I had to figure out how to do it myself. The best way to do it is to start by making your own folder here. I'm just going to right click on the desktop and make new folder. I'm going to call this one, we'll call it games. There you go. Got a games folder. Let's move this out of the way, and I'm going to open up the hard drive. I'm going to go to my applications. There aren't a whole lot of games on here, so I'm going to find something. Big Bang board games for example. So click on that. We have quite a few in here. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to make shortcuts for these to put them in the games folder. Now you could actually, if you wanted to, you could drag these right into the folder. The problem with that though, is, if you do that then you've actually moved the application into a different folder, and that kind of breaks up the organizational aspects of the whole thing, and makes stuff hard to find. So the smart way to do this is I'm just going to select all by hitting Apple A or command A. I'm going to right click here, and I'm going to do "make alias". That's going to make an alias for every single thing there. So I want to drag all these into the folder. The fastest way to do it without having to drag them one at a time is to hold down the apple key, or the command key, and click, and drag all of these right into the games folder. And there you go. It leaves all the originals over here in the appropriate application folder where I need them, so I'll close this and open up the games folder. You can see that they're all in there now, as shortcuts. If the fact that they say "alias" bothers you, all you have to do is rename them. So I'll just show you this. Just go one at a time and rename them. That should be almost all of them though. A few more left. There you go. So there's all those, and we're going to click that, close that, drag the games folder right into there. There you got it. Now, when you click on games, boom, beautiful. Perfect."