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Witch: Smarter Application Switching

Posted by Alex Galonsky on 02/8/07 in Applications, Utilities

To many people Tiger’s application switcher (Command-Tab) leaves much to be desired. This dislike is mainly because it only switches between applications, not individual windows. Now users can switch windows using Expose, but not as easily as it would be with Command-Tab, because one has to use the mouse when using Expose.

Witch screenshot

Witch makes window switching much easier and full-featured than the default Tiger switcher. When the key combination is pressed, a “bezel” style window comes up, showing every window, open or minimized, with the title of each window. Witch also allows users to quit individual windows or whole applications by striking simple commands while Witch is open. Best of all, Witch is free.

By default, Mac OS X does not allow command-tab to be mapped to anything else, but with some tweaking, it is possible. This video gives a good tutorial on how to make command-tab your Witch activation key.

Get Witch here.

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    Andre said on

    February 8th, 2007 at 1:24 pm

    Does anyone even use the application switcher in OS X? I certainly don’t.

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    Rebby Brarbs said on

    February 8th, 2007 at 2:27 pm

    I use the OS X switcher. It seems to work fine for me. Plus I use command+left aposterphe to scroll through application windows within a single app.

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    wph said on

    February 8th, 2007 at 3:46 pm

    I sometimes use the default switcher. It’s great for quitting a bunch of apps. Just press Q when you’re selecting the app you want to quit.

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    Sherb said on

    February 8th, 2007 at 6:55 pm

    @Andre: I do…

    As for the app… no thanks. Expose is really all I need. A quick flick of the wrist and I have all my windows.

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    Indraneel said on

    February 10th, 2007 at 1:06 pm

    with the little time i hsve spent with macs, i find expose excellent.

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