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Option-click to Hide Apps Quickly

This trick has been available in the Mac OS for years, but many people still don't know it. If you have too many windows cluttering up your screen, you can hide specific ones easily as you work. When you're in any application, hold down the Option key and click on another app's window, on the Dock, or in the Finder to switch to that other app and simultaneously hide all the windows in the previously current app.

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Visioneer PaperPort

by Jake Peters

Jake Peters <jhp@shore.net> writes:

One of my fellow employees recently purchased the Visioneer PaperPort scanner. There are two amazing things about it - the size and the interface software. When you insert a piece of paper in the scanner, it automatically scans the page and opens the PaperPort software. Once the page has been scanned in, you can drag multiple pages together to make a stack. Then, let's say you want to fax the set of five pages to someone else. All you do is drag the stack to the image of a fax machine, and it will fax the document. The PaperPort software also works with PowerTalk and enables you to print the documents or save them in a variety of graphical file formats.

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