Those of you who follow my blog know that I recently got a new MacBook Pro. This isn't the first Mac I've ever had but it's the first time I'm going to force myself to switch. I've made a promise that I wouldn't touch Windows on my laptop for at least the next month and since I won't be in the office much that means lots and lots of time on my Mac. Tonight I sat down to do a little work and finally went for a solution to one of my main complaints, the way cycling between open applications works. Let me explain.

In Windows when you press Alt-Tab you cycle through all open Windows. In OS X you cycle through all open applications. The key difference is that in Windows if you have multiple windows open for a single application (like say two Firefox windows) you can cycle to every window - in OS X you can only cycle to the main window for any given application, then to cycle between it's open windows you use Command-~. This is REALLY really stupid and annoying. So tonight I went on my first quest to find a solution to this problem and man did I find it. Oh and if that isn't annoying enough if you cycle to an app that is minimized you MUST go mouse over to it to maximize it - again STUPID.

Enter in Witch. Witch fixes both of these things by adding a new application for cycling your windows - I mapped mine to Alt-Tab just like in Windows. THIS ROCKS. Thank you Witch, you just fixed the single most annoying thing I've had to deal with during this switch over. Apple listen up, buy this guy out and get this code in your next release. I don't care what you're doing, whatever it is stop and add this code first!!!