Follow along in this screen-capture video - what we at Mac|Life call a "screencast" - and learn how to create a handy and space-saving launch folder and place it in your Dock. As you follow the simple steps in this five-minute tutorial, you'll also learn a slick alias-making trick, plus some time-saving keyboard shortcuts you might not already know.

REQUIREMENTS: QuickTime 7 or later

Download compressed versions of the How to Create a Dock-Based Launch Folder video - after you download any of these three versions, just double-click it to uncompress it:

> Podcast: iPod video format (13.2MB)

> QuickTime: High-resolution QuickTime movie (22.9MB)

> Apple TV: High-resolution Apple TV movie (21.8MB)