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I was watching the Nirvana music video collection on MTV last night using my Formac Studio/TV in the dock and talking to my friend Jon on AIM. I wished I could get the dock magnification higher, so I talked to him about it and after a while, he and I found the value in the dock plist. In ~/Library -> Preferences -> com.apple.dock, there is a key named "largesize" followed by <real>123</real>, where 123 is some value (probably not an integer). You want to change that integer and reboot the dock; 256 works great for me. My friend posted a screenshot of it at spymac.

[Editor's note: This works only if you have magnification enabled, and don't use a value greater than 512, or else the dock won't work at all. Also, if you use the dock prefs to change the magnification, you'll lose your super zoom.]
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password?
Authored by: jpkelly on Jan 10, '03 02:52:43PM

What is the password for the SpyMac page?



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password?
Authored by: uurf on Jan 10, '03 03:11:28PM

better question:

why does spymac suddenly challenge connections for authorization?



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password?
Authored by: robg on Jan 10, '03 05:36:32PM

Whoops, I meant to remove that link from the article, as I had the exact same password dialog appear ... sorry!

-rob.



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Spymac Remodel speculations
Authored by: hap on Jan 10, '03 04:33:18PM

Spymac is in the middle of a remodel and it looks like they are having a closed beta period. I expect they will be back soon just be patient.

Note I am not part of the SpyMac team and while I know they are remodeling there site any comments past that are speculation.

Take care
Hap



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Not all OSX boxes have this, but ....
Authored by: osxpounder on Jan 21, '03 02:40:59PM

.... it's easy to add.

My OSX box did not have a 'largesize' property in its com.apple.dock.plist file, but I added it, made sure it was set to class "number", and set the value to 512.000000. Then I quit and restarted my Dock.

Superzoom! Thanks!



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Supersize the dock's icon magnification
Authored by: carsten on Jul 23, '03 12:22:44AM

Wow. This is soooooo cool.

Combine this with the "microdock" and--jeepers creepers!!!

Works in 10.2.6.

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Supersize the dock's icon magnification
Authored by: carsten on Jul 23, '03 12:38:45AM

defaults write com.apple.dock largesize -integer 512 ; killall Dock
To Undo:

defaults delete com.apple.dock largesize; killall Dock


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Supersize the dock's icon magnification
Authored by: Hes Nikke on Nov 11, '03 12:11:22AM

Panther Proven!

(it works :) )

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vacuums do not suck. they merely provide an absence that allows other objects to take the place of what becomes absent.



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Supersize the dock's icon magnification
Authored by: macphreak.e on Jul 03, '04 07:47:18AM

Tiger proven :D



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