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New poll posted -- app switching
Authored by: billclinton on Jul 14, '06 02:44:41PM

App switchers that work by putting up any kind of window from which the user must select something JUST SUCK for advanced users, at least for your 40 or so most-used programs. It's just too much mucking around. The best solutions for users such as this are programs such as Keyboard Maestro and HotApp (excellent but not included in today's poll). These programs use a key combination for the switch and are probably five times faster than the "window" based methods. I have found that setting Shift-Option-Command + a single other key does not interfere with other keystroke combinations. (The only exception is the relatively new command that has shown up in some programs which is "Paste and Match Style," so avoid using Shift-Option-Command-V.)

My pet peeve with Command-Tab is that it re-orders the icons every time I use it, so one must scan the entire string of icons to find the one that you want to click on. I never use it for this reason.



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