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Bit of a narrow-minded there Targuman - "As others have said, just "Hide" the other apps and (if you are really ADD) choose a simple desktop image."

There a plenty of things I could do manually. I could wash all my clothes in the sink, but I choose to use a washing machine. Having different ways of achieving the same task is a _good_ thing, especially if its free.

And Doodim can go to black as well. Personally, I am not sure that any of this really helps productivity. As others have said, just "Hide" the other apps and (if you are really ADD) choose a simple desktop image. In all of this you still have to have enough self control to not bring up the other apps... Is this really so hard?

'Real Mac User,' I say the more the merrier to the PC users who are switching. Aren't all Mac users 'Real Mac Users?'

I use a PC about 50% of the time, does that mean I am not a real Mac user?

DooDim is a significant superset of this, allowing you to vary the dimness of the background to your heart's content.

http://www.lachoseinteractive.net/en/products/doodim/

I've been using Auto-Hide for years to hide my other open apps.

Another app I use, which does a similar thing is Backdrop (http://www.johnhaney.com/backdrop/)

I personally find it most useful when watching WMV videos in QuickTime Player since the free version won't allow full-screen viewing (which still puzzles me.) I'd hardly say apps like this are "killing the platform", just offering a different way of working which may or may not benefit you.

Anyway, if I remember correctly, a "single window mode" was written into early versions of OS X, wasn't it? By the people who built the platform in the first place!

"Full screen mode" is for switchers who miss "maximize." Why, oh why, do you have to encourage the PC users to crash the party? This is the cancer that is killing the Mac platform.

Not exactly similar to this software but the concept is similar, MegaZoomer is a SIMBL plug-in that'll make any cocoa window grow to full screen. Pretty amazing especially for Mail app and Safari.

http://www.ianhenderson.org/megazoomer.html

A lot of these 'full screen' apps are popping up these days, but all I want is for someone to update FocusLayer for 10.4 (or 10.5).

FocusLayer, simply put: the current app is highlighted while the rest of the screen is masked by a layer with user-defined opacity--a little or a lot. And the best part is, you can click right to other apps without any cmd key or other keyboard modifier. Just works... except in 10.4 Sort of but not quite.

Originally made for 10.2, the author admits FocusLayer is a bit of a hack and has released the source. Won't somebody pick up the ball?

If you don't want a black background and can live with a dimmed background, check out Doodim:

http://www.lachoseinteractive.net/en/products/doodim/