261 Ever needed to take a screenshot and had to remove all of those icons from your Desktop before you do? Or maybe you needed to make a presentation and had to tidy up before hooking into the projector? Or maybe you'd just like to see your Desktop pcture.

With the little freeware utility Desktopple, you can quickly and easily hide all of your Desktop clutter. A quick trip to your menu bar is all it takes.

For example, here's what my desktop usually looks like:

Actually, it's even more chaotic than that, since I hid the roughly three dozen windowshaded open application windows before taking this screnshot.

However, one selection/click in the Desktopple menulet, and voila!:

Pretty cool, eh?

DeskTopple features include:
° Quickly hides your entire Desktop for screenshots or presentations
° Toggling Desktop hiding is as easy as touching a HotKey
° Hide the Desktop with your Desktop picture or a customizable background color
° Menu bar icon shows status
° Doesn't require a Finder restart to work


Desktopple is a Menu Bar item. Launch it, and it will hang out in your menu bar. Click it, and you'll get a list of all its options. If you want it there every time you launch, simply add it to your Login Items in your System Preferences.

Speaking of preferences, DeskTopple's allow you to set several paramenter, specify keyboard shortcuts, and such.

New in version 1.1:
• HotKey support for hiding your Desktop
• Hide your Desktop with your Desktop picture as well as a solid color
• Preference to add Desktopple to your Login Items

System requirements:
Requires Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or better
(Note to Panther users: this has not been fully tested on Mac OS X 10.3, but it should work properly)

System support
PPC/Intel

DeskTopple is donationware

For more information, visit:
http://foggynoggin.com/desktopple




Charles W. Moore

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