Two of the best feature of OS X as of late have been Exposé and application switcher (cmd+tab). The later is only useful if you wish to go from one app to the other, back and forth or whatever. The former, I find, is great for when working with multiple websites, or image files or other such things that might look quite dissimilar. Where I find Exposé really falls apart is with a multitude of code files, who when seen zoomed out in an Exposé spread, really have no differentiating characteristics and your left having to hover over each frame and wait for it’s toolbar tip to pop up and tell which window it is.

So what’s the perfect solution? A combination of both would be ideal. Enter Witch (now offered from Many Tricks), a remarkable application/window switcher that really suites my needs. Witch marries the individual window selection possible with Exposé and the tab-trough, labeled functionality of application switcher. Of course it’s customizable to the nth degree but I use it fairly stock and where I find it really excels is when I am switching rapidly back and forth between two windows of code in the same application, i.e. two or more pages in CSSEdit or Taco HTML Edit. Witch, instead of being just an application switcher, is a window switcher, perfect for a guy like me who has nothing short of a dozen windows open at any given moment.

[tags]OS X, Many Tricks, Witch, CSSEdit[/tags]

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