Mac 101: Finding Dock-based items

Here's a simple trick to help you locate items from your Dock in Finder. Sure, you can Control-click (or Right-click) and item and choose Show In Finder from the contextual pop-up menu, but it's a lot easier simply to hold down the Command key and click the Dock item. (That's a left click for dual-button mice.)

Command-clicking a Docked application or file automatically opens up a new Finder window showing the item in its folder. One TUAW reader suggested using this feature to make sure that Applications have been installed in the proper folder rather than being used from a disk image.