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Using Putty (Windows) or iTerm (OS X) in full screen. Or use Visor in OS X http://visor.binaryage.com/.

This allows distractions from other stuff to vanish for a while.

Also, I don't check the email as often ... productivity^2

Visor has helped me a bit. It drives one of my coworkers nuts whenever he tries to work with me on my computer, though. He keeps searching for the terminal window that has the Mongrel instance without knowing that it's in Visor.

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