By pressing the tab key repeatedly, or holding it down, you choose the window to which you wish to switch releasing the option key brings that window to the front and makes its application active. When you press the appropriate keyboard shortcut (option+tab, by default, but you can choose your own shortcut), an overlay appears on the screen showing a vertical list of open applications along with each application’s windows (grouped by application, of course). What Witch does, at the most simple level, is provide an “switcher” much like OS X’s command+tab feature, but one that gives you quick access to Thanks to my colleague (and Macworld Contributing Editor) Rob Griffiths, I recently came across a beta version of a new utility called But I’ve just never found a way to get to a window buried beneath many others that makes me say, “that’s it!” Until now, that is. Plus, this feature still requires that you switch to the preferred application first.)
(Some applications support Mac OS X’s “window switcher” feature that lets you cycle through open windows in theĪpplication by pressing command+`, but a good number of applications don’t. I wish there was a way to use the command+tab feature-or something like it-to navigate directly to a particular window. The problem is that as much as I like Exposé’s functionality, it’s not as quick as the command+tab feature-it requires that I either take my hand off the keyboard and click on the desired window with the mouse, or use the arrow (and possibly tab) keys to navigate to that window. (on my computers, F11) and then choosing the desired window. Using Exposé, I can easily find any open window in any running application by pressing the hotkey for Using the former, I can quickly switch to any running application by simply pressing command+tab.
Two of my favorite features of Mac OS X (10.3 or later) are the command+tab application switcher and Exposé.
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