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Witch window manager on sale for 48 hours

The folks over at Many Tricks have put Witch on sale for US$10 (normally $19) until 7 AM Pacific Time on Friday, January 28.

It's been awhile since we talked about Witch on TUAW, but it's a perennial favorite utility to switch between windows.

Witch shows you not just which applications are running, but it also shows you all of the different windows that are running in those applications. For example, right now I have three different windows open in BBEdit; if I use Cmd+Tab switching to move between applications, I can switch to Safari and then back to BBEdit, but Witch doesn't just let me switch to BBEdit, it allows me to specify that "I want to switch from Safari to the BBEdit window that has the article I'm writing about Witch."

If you haven't seen it in action, you can download a free trial from the Many Tricks website, which also has some screenshots available.

Witch is available for purchase either through the website or through the Mac App Store.



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The folks over at Many Tricks have put Witch on sale for US$10 (normally $19) until 7 AM Pacific Time on Friday, January 28. It's been...
 

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Jared bartlett

I bought this program solely based on the "glowing review" that it could be used to switch between BBEedit windows. This is not correct from what I've seen so far. BBEdit opens several documents in a single window. you can open more windows but Witch won't/can't let you access the documents open in a single window ( which I believe is the default behavior when opening a document in BBEdit ) If I'm wrong please tell me because I'd hate to think I just wasted ten bucks to replicate features already built into the OS...

January 26 2011 at 10:19 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Jared bartlett

Similarly it doesn't let you switch between tabs in a firefox browser window.

January 26 2011 at 10:23 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
TJ Luoma

It switches between "windows" not "tabs"…

You can change this behavior in BBEdit by going to Preferences » Documents & Drawer and change "New & opened documents" to "Open in a new window".

January 26 2011 at 10:55 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
CarlRJ

I am very keyboard-centric, and I use both Expose and Witch. I use Expose more often. But when I have 12 different Terminal windows open to 12 different Unix servers and I want to switch to the Terminal window for foobarserver, it's MUCH easier to bring up Witch and scroll down to the window titled "foobarserver", than it is to go into Expose mode and examine each window until I find foobarserver.

Different approaches for different needs. I also never tile my windows, preferring to use a random jumble of windows, plus Expose, plus Cmd-Tab most of the time.

January 26 2011 at 5:17 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ooglek

I see the value here. Sure, expose is nice, but this enhances something I use regularly. The power is the configurability.

What ticks me off is that I was hoping to see it in action, like a screencast, to show its power. Screenshots are nice, but I have $10 that I'm almost ready to give. I just need a hint of WOW that is awesome in a screencast and I'm sold.

Why don't all developers make a screencast, even a simple one, a requirement?

January 26 2011 at 5:04 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
tech_fanboy

⌘+` lets you switch between windows from 1 application.

January 26 2011 at 2:40 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Mystic

Exactly what I was going to say.

I'll stick with command-tab and command-`. I also use Expose. Cmon TUAW, almost everyday I'm baffled by you.

January 26 2011 at 5:19 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Nick

I never knew that! That is a small annoyance I had utterly removed: thank you!

January 26 2011 at 5:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
bigDave

On my MacBook Pro I use Exposé by swiping four fingers down. That shows every open window, even the minimized ones, in every app. And I prefer the thumbnails instead of a list view because sometimes I don't remember the title of a window or document.

January 26 2011 at 2:25 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Gazoobee

Expose already does all of this and in a much more elegant fashion. Why would anyone want this? The only difference is this gives you an old fashioned text-based list of the windows and apps, whereas Expose gives you pictures.

January 26 2011 at 1:32 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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