Removing an Active Application's Icon from the Dock

I like having a clean dock.  To me, that means limiting its applications to the few that I deem necessary.  Since using quicksilver,  I use my dock, solely for applications that facilitate GTD.   Applications like Adium, iTunes, & other "secondary" applications tend to distract me. especially since I hate hiding my dock.

Anyway, to get to the point,  I stumbled across some code you can use to hide active applications from being in the dock... and here's how you do it:
1) Navigate to the application you want to hide from the dock but have open.
2) Right click (ctrl click) on the icon and select "Show Package Contents".
3) Open the resources folder
4) Locate the document titled info.plist
5) After the first <dict> insert the following two lines:

LSUIElement
1

6) Save & Restart

Note: Just in case, make sure you save a backup of info.plist somewhere accessible.
Note: I don't endorse or take any responsibility for anything that happens as a result of this hack.

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