Limiting Distractions Project

Difficulty level: Easy

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Additional hardware: None

Your Mac offers a host of distractions: email, Twitter, movies, music, the Internet. The list goes on and on. How does anyone ever get anything done with all this tempting distraction lurking at every corner? Well, you know, just as I do, that it is sometimes tough to buckle down and do what we have to do (like write a book, for example, not that I am speaking from personal experience).

Given a big enough screen, you can have a large number of apps open, and visible, on your Mac running Lion. Apple has introduced full-screen mode in an attempt to help us focus. Lion also includes Mission Control, which allows you to manage all your open applications and more.