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Kirk McElhearn is a freelance writer and translator living in a village in the French Alps. He writes about more than just Macs on his Web site, Kirkville. (October 2009)

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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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