Swept Away - Lifehacker Code

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Swept Away - Lifehacker Code

by Jason Clarke Apr 27th 2007

Lifehacker has been on a bit of a tear lately, releasing their very own utilities as downloads, like the Better Gmail Firefox extension. This latest one is a Windows-only utility called Swept Away, which will automatically minimize running applications that are not in focus based on a timer.

The application is very reminiscent of Spirited Away for the Mac, (warning, link is not English, but the download link is easy to find on the right-hand side of the page) which is a very popular utility to hide running windows that are not actively being used.

Tags: Lifehacker, Spirited Away, SpiritedAway, Swept Away, SweptAway

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Nosh said 2:42PM on 4-27-2007

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The smartest thing the bunch of duds has done is disabling comments from everyone except a few ass-kissers! Guess they wouldn't be able to handle the heat. BLOGS FOR DUMMIES!

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