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Old September 15th, 2003, 11:33 PM
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want to hide an app from the dock

to do this and make it so its like a background app just add <key>NSUIElement</key>
<string>1</string>

into the plist file of that application
good for hiding msn at skool from teachers
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Old September 16th, 2003, 12:10 AM
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Ooooh, great hack!
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Old September 16th, 2003, 01:04 AM
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just found it at resexcellence in about rb
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Old September 19th, 2003, 02:35 PM
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if the application dosent have a plist then open it up in a res editor and look for plist and modify it in there
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Great idea!
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Old September 26th, 2003, 02:47 PM
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thaks yes it is very usefull aye
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