Really, what better time to talk about an application called Witch than just a few days before Halloween? Fortunately, this application doesn’t have anything to do with warts, brooms, or black cats. But it does have something to do with windows—the graphical kind, not the Microsoft kind.
I’m not sure we’ve covered Witch before, but it’s been in development for a while. It aims to simplify a rather common frustration for some Mac users: while toggling between applications is easy enough, finding a particular window often takes two steps. First you have to command-tab or hit the Dock icon to get to the right application, then you have to cycle through the windows with command-` or choosing the right one from the Window menu. You could use Exposé to solve this, but often you have to hunt for the right window.
Instead, Witch gives you a command-tab-like interface for switching between different windows. Once of the nice consequences of this is that it doesn’t bring all the windows in an app to the foreground, making it easier to view two windows simultaneously without obscuring one. Since hitting version 2, Witch has added a bunch of new features, such as the ability to jump to any of the first ten windows in its list by hitting a number key, interface customizability, and a host of other options.
Witch is the work of the team at Many Tricks, which also brought us the excellent Butler, Service Scrubber, and Leech. While you can give it a try for free, a full license will cost you €9.95. It runs on PowerPC or Intel-based Macs, and requires only 10.3.9 or later (that is a compatible piece of software).
[via Mac OS X Hints]
