Witch is a great switcher, and PullTab lets you assign Apple+Tab to it so you can get rid of Apple’s switcher completely.

Witch has lots of cool features. I think that the recommended settings at They should do that are good suggestions. However, I also recommend turning on the “Cancel” button feature. I put it at the bottom of my list. Oh, and I turn OFF the “Start with the second listed window when triggered” option.

One gripe is that Witch doesn’t have a way to “Hide Others” while in the application switcher. I’m not sure, but I *THINK* that Apple’s switcher may have the ability to do this (by doing Option+Apple+H over an app). Another gripe is that there’s no way to use BOTH Apple+` and Apple+Shift+Tab for moving backwards in the list. Also, Witch does not allow you to drag documents on top of applications to open them. Oh, and while you can use your mouse scroll wheel, it doesn’t roll around the other side of the box, which may or may not be a good idea.

Also, Witch can sometimes act a little slow, but I blame that on QuickSilver. If anyone ever notices that their typing is slow (or their PowerBook fan is coming on a lot), try restarting quicksilver (you can do this by holding down Control while mousing over “Quit QuickSilver” in the QS menus) as it is probably churning 30% of your CPU for reasons not yet understood (it is not indexing).

Another option is LiteSwitch X, but I think that most of LiteSwitch’s good features are already included in Witch (aside from hiding others). Plus, LiteSwitch does some crappy things like mapping Apple+W to Apple+H. They should have just used Apple+H only.

You can also hide open apps by keeping the
⌘ key pressed and then hitting the “h” key while cycling over the application you want to hide.

Instead of ⌘-esc to exits the list – you can use ⌘ .
(this is also usefull if you want to cancel a dialog box).