As everybody know, you can cycle through your open apps by hitting ⌘-Tab. What you might not know (I didn’t), is the ⌘-Tab feature has another trick up its sleeve.

You can also close open apps by keeping the
⌘ key pressed and then hitting the “Q” key while cycling over the application you want to close:

François reports that it seems to works with all apps, although not if the app needs to do something before closing like saving a file.

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