Recent items to Dock

Does anyone know how to add recent items (apps and files) to the Dock?

see this link
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071101055329470&query=recent%2Bst ack

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    This also happened to me and I was going crazy because the items might of been deleted or from a DVD that is no longer mounted.  So this is how I solved it.
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