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Geoff Bronner is webmaster for the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He listens to a lot of 80s music and The Hour of Slack on his iPod. (April 2005)
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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