Open an application from the App folder and close its folder
April 29th, 2008 by santana Mac OS X Tips
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When you open an application by double clicking or Comand o from the Finder, you can close the Finder as soon as the application is launched.
Press Option key when you are opening an application from the Finder. This will open the application and close the Finder automatically.
And just for the fun, while you are it, after you highlight the application name press shift + option + command + o. This will do the same as above, but in slow motion. 
April 29th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
Thank you very much for this great tip! Saw this on Lifehacker and decided to take a look. +1 subscriber
PS the screenshot for the post reminds me of another OSX hint - when wanting to take a screenshot of only one window, you can press cmd+shift+4 and then press spacebar. It will snap just the window with a transparent background. Very useful for post graphics like this.
You probably already knew about this one, but if not, I hope that helps. Keep up the good work.
April 30th, 2008 at 12:29 am
Hi egordin, Thanks! Great tips. You’ve just reminded me to use that short cut. Thanks. Btw, great website you have there
April 30th, 2008 at 1:32 am
Thank you very much again(y) Great Tip +1subscriber;)
Andony