Neat app for neatniks

Apple Matters drew my attention to a wonderful little app that I have already fallen in love with since last night when I downloaded it. It's called SpiritedAway and all it does is "hide" any open applications that are running  in the background after a user-specified period of inactivity. For neatniks like me, who tend to get lost in a sea of windows that are obscuring the windows (or desktop) I actually want to see, this is huge. Oh sure – I could just use Expose to locate what I need, but that involves an extra step on my part. I may be neat – but I am also quite lazy. With SpiritedAway, there is no user intervention required, and you can even opt to exclude certain apps from the hiding process using the SpiritedAway menubar item.

SpiritedAway is free and the icon looks suspiciously like a Ghost from Pac-Man, which makes it totally worth it :)