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10.3: Switch apps without showing or using the dock
Authored by: encro on Oct 26, '03 08:25:59AM

There seems to be a lack of truth in your post.

Proteron posted an open letter to Apple regarding 3rd Party idea theft:

http://www.proteron.com/liteswitchx/openmemo.php

IMO, I disagree with Samuel Caughron (Proteron) on his comments regarding LiteSwitch in contrast tosomething like Karelia's Watson.

Where Sherlock's focus was changed completely to emulate a revolutionary solution already available from Karelia. Something like LiteSwitch did not require much imagination given the similarity to a function that has been on Windows for quite a while.

Should Microsoft sue Proteron for stealing ideas that advantage the competion? Ok, being a bit silly on that point.

The point is Mac OS X is still such a new OS that is too close to natural progression for Proteron to be disapointed with for using a similar feature.



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Proteron's still #1
Authored by: Thom on Oct 26, '03 04:53:50PM

How long did I have to wait for Panther to come out while not having the app switching power that I was accustomed to?

I had LiteSwitch for OS 9 back in the day. I thought it was a pretty nice implementation of Windows' app-switching behavior -- and would like to point out that while the concept may have originated with Microsoft, these guys still had to code it from scratch. They've done a lot of hard work and added many features since that original Classic version.

After a brief affair with Keyboard Maestro (the 'launch favorite apps' feature was nice, until I switched to using LaunchBar), I went back to Proteron's version because it was the most powerful and well thought-out. And still is... I'll continue to use it in Panther too.



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