March 2003
Beginner
432 pages
11h 30m
English
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Alt-Tab Alt-Ternatives
While Mac OS X Jaguar markedly improved
-Tabbing your way between applications,
there’s still plenty of room for enhancement.
It’s such an innocent key combination:
-Tab. Easy to say, easy to do, easy to type. Innocent it may be, but embroiled with controversy is this little key command; sure, it switches you to the next open application (and
-Shift-Tab sends you to the previous one), but still people clamor for more. They want a smart switcher — one that goes in order of application usage, not Dock order, or even one that understands individual windows within a single application.
Tip
In previous versions of OS X, it was easy for software to override the
-Tab behavior, allowing previous usage order to be mimicked with third-party software. To add more fat to the fire comes this warning from Keyboard Maestro’s latest release: Apple has disabled Keyboard Maestro’s (and any other third-party application’s) ability to override the
-Tab keystroke from the Dock and replace ...
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