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<h6>Option-click to Hide Apps Quickly</h6>
<p><p>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.</p></p>
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<a href="/article/993"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('993', 'show')">TidBITS on TidBITS</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_993" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_993">Publishing TidBITS every week for the last six years has given us a good sense of continuity. We usually know off the top of our heads whether we've written about a topic, who wrote about it, and how long ago the issue was published</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 20 May 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_997" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_997">FreePPP 2.5 Released -- On Sunday, the FreePPP Group released version 2.5 of their free PPP client. FreePPP 2.5 is a major step up from the previous 1.0.5 and contains more features than MacPPP 2.5, Apple's version of the same code</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 13 May 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1006" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1006">Tonya and I are deep into working on the fourth edition of Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh, which means that we're likely to be less responsive to email for a while.If you're the author of a freely distributable freeware or shareware Internet program, I'd like to consider your program for inclusion on the CD that will come with the book</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 06 May 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/1014"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1014', 'show')">Portuguese and French Translators Needed</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1014" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1014">Portuguese and French Translators Needed -- After the success of our call for help translating TidBITS into Dutch, we'd like to see if anyone wishes to help translate TidBITS into Portuguese</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 29 Apr 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/1020"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1020', 'show')">More Bookmarks than Books, Part III</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1020" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1020">When we publish articles that attempt to review a comprehensive collection of a certain type of product, we sometimes miss a few products for one reason or another</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 29 Apr 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1021" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1021">It's been an interesting few days. Last Thursday, my main Mac - a Centris 660AV - started to experience weird errors and crashes. I tried basic fixes first, repairing minor problems with Norton Disk Doctor and rebuilding desktops, but the problems worsened</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 22 Apr 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/1022"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1022', 'show')">More Bookmarks than Books</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1022" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1022">More Bookmarks than Books -- I've written another part to the bookmark managers mini-series that began in TidBITS-323 and continued in TidBITS-324. We didn't have space in this issue to include Part III, but we do plan to run the article next week</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 22 Apr 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/1023"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1023', 'show')">Eudora Pro 3.0 Beta Available</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1023" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1023">Eudora Pro 3.0 Beta Available -- Qualcomm has released a public beta of Eudora Pro 3.0 for owners of Eudora Pro 2.x. I've been using earlier test releases for a month or so now, and find the added features extremely welcome</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 22 Apr 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/1031"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1031', 'show')">Breaking the Chain</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1031" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1031">My article on chain mail in TidBITS-324 elicited more responses than I'd anticipated. They fell into a couple of categories that I found interesting, and I thought I'd share some of the information with you.Creative Responses -- Several people wrote in with creative responses to chain mail messages</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 22 Apr 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1032" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1032">We're a little too tired to make much of this fact, but this issue of TidBITS marks our sixth anniversary of publication. We started publishing TidBITS each week in April of 1990, which makes us one of the longest running solely electronic publications</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 15 Apr 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/1033"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1033', 'show')">TidBITS in Dutch</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1033" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1033">TidBITS in Dutch -- Check out the TidBITS home page for a link to the first translation of TidBITS (issue #322) into Dutch. However, Jan Vanderwegen , the coordinator of the Dutch translation team, tells me that they could use additional help</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 15 Apr 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1035" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1035">FreePPP 2.5 Beta Available -- The FreePPP Group has released FreePPP 2.5b4, the first public beta of FreePPP 2.5. As usual, if your PPP connection works well, we don't recommend upgrading yet (why fix what isn't broken, especially with beta software?)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 15 Apr 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1038" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1038">For a few weeks in February, we held an informal survey to determine whether or not our readers thought the weekly listing of reviews in the main Mac magazines was useful</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 15 Apr 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/1041"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1041', 'show')">Back on the Chain Gang</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1041" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1041">I've had it. I'm sick of receiving chain mail. I'm sure many of you have received these bits of oozing Internet abuse as well, ranging from the Good Times Virus hoax (it is a complete hoax, folks, and the damage it causes stems purely from being redistributed in email) to the latest petition for a worthy cause</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 15 Apr 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/1043"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1043', 'show')">More Bookmarks than Books, Part II</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1043" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1043">This article is the second part of my look at bookmark management utilities. In TidBITS-323 last week, I looked at utilities that offer their own interfaces</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 15 Apr 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/1048"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1048', 'show')">More Bookmarks than Books, Part I</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1048" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1048">Let's face it: the bookmark or hotlist features of most Web browsers stink. They're utterly lousy. Most aren't even hierarchical, which makes it practically impossible to categorize your bookmarks, and the few (like Netscape Navigator's) that are hierarchical don't have the elegance of a well-written Macintosh application.When Web browsers first appeared, I yelled about how we needed a good independent bookmark program, partly because the existing ones were lousy, and partly because those of us who have to use and test multiple Web browsers find it difficult to switch back and forth if we lose our bookmarks each time</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 08 Apr 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1050" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1050">By the way, this is a real issue of TidBITS. No April Fools jokes in here. Honest. [ACE]</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=16" class="category">Just for Fun</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 01 Apr 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1051" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1051">Happy Birthday, Apple! On this day in 1976, Apple Computer was formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Pretty soon Apple will be old enough to drink alcoholic beverages in most states - that ought to make for some more optimistic production estimates</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=16" class="category">Just for Fun</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 01 Apr 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1052" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1052">Greg Marriott Attacked -- We seldom cover news of this nature, but occasional exceptions are in order. Greg Marriott, a long-time Macintosh programmer responsible for parts of System 7, among many other things, was surprised and brutally attacked in his apartment a few weeks ago</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=16" class="category">Just for Fun</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 01 Apr 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/1053"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1053', 'show')">TidBITS on TV</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1053" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1053">TidBITS on TV -- In August of 1995, Tonya and Geoff and I were filmed for a 13-part television show called Life on the Internet. It was produced for the Canadian Discovery Channel, and a few Canadian readers spotted us on the show about email (along with Steve Dorner)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=16" class="category">Just for Fun</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 01 Apr 1996</div></div>
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