Has it ever bothered you that some Background Applications doesn’t hide their Dock Icons(such as Hardware Growler and Veoh Web Player), thus takes up unnecessary space in the Dock. But, it’s actually possible to hide these!

There is two ways to do this, one that’s easy but not guaranteed to work, and another that’s sightly more complicated but also almost guaranteed to work.

METHOD ONE: The Quick Way

The Quick and easy way that’s not guaranteed is by using the application “Configure Application Dock Tile”, which can be downloaded here. To hide an application’s Dock Tile with this app, simply close the app you want to hide, then open it with CADT, check the box in the window and save. When you open the application, it won’t have any dock icon!

METHOD TWO: The Guaranteed Way

Look up the application in Finder, Right-Click on it and select “Show Package Contents”. A new window opens. Navigate to Contents and open the file “Info.plist”.

If it opens with Plist Editor(it does if you have the Developer Tools package installed), mark the top element and click “Add Child…”, select “Application is Agent(NSUIElement)” from the Drop-down list, and check the box.

If you don’t have Developer Tools, you can instead open it with a Text Editor. You should see a long list of <key>…</key> tags with different kinds of value tags. If there is a Key with the name “LSUIElement”, change the String below it to 1. If it isn’t, add this code after the other Key/Value Pairs:

    <key>LSUIElement</key>
    <string>1</string>

Start the application, and it won’t have a Dock Icon!

Anyone who has played Kingdom Hearts 2 or Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days should know about Organization XIII, and the weird names everyone there has. If you have played Days, you should also recall that Saïx calls Axel “Lea” in a cutscene in Castle Oblivion there. And what do you get if you take “Lea”, add an “X” and scramble the letters? Well, if you scramble them in the right order you get Axel. Another example: Take “Sora”, the name of the main character of the rest of the Kingdom Hearts series, add an “X” and scramble it, you can get “Roxas”, and Roxas has been confirmed to be the Nobody of Sora in Kingdom Hearts 2. Ever wanted to know the name of your own Nobody? Check Rum&Monkey’s Nobody Name Generator. It also gets an extra point for having Axel’s classic quote “Got it memorized?” on the submit-button ;D

PLEASE NOTE: I did not make this. Voice your complaints to the makers, no me!