Alt-Tab Alt-Ternatives
While Mac OS X Jaguar markedly improved Alt-Tab Alt-Ternatives-Tabbing your way between applications, there’s still plenty of room for enhancement.
It’s such an innocent key combination:
Alt-Tab Alt-Ternatives
Alt-Tab Alt-Ternatives
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In previous versions of OS X, it was easy for software to override the Alt-Tab Alt-Ternatives
Alt-Tab Alt-Ternatives
In fact, it’s not the Alt-Tab, per se, that’s at issue. It’s the Mac concept of windows belonging to applications rather than existing semiautonomously that causes unrest. While hopping from Mail to Internet Explorer (IE) to BBEdit is a snap, it’s simply impossible to alternate between, say, Google residing in its own IE windows and Document1 in Word. Some applications do provide their own local keyboard shortcut
Alt-Tab Alt-Ternatives
Alt-Tab Alt-Ternatives
At heart, there are two issues: Jaguar (but not previous releases of OS X) allows you to
Alt-Tab Alt-Ternatives
Alt-Tab Alt-Ternatives
Alt-Tab Alt-Ternatives