Filed under: Utilities, Macintosh, Productivity
Switch applications in OS X just like you did in OS 9
by Jay Hathaway May 22nd 2009
If you were a Mac user during the pre-OS X days, back when the Dock was a twinkle in a UI designer's eye, you remember switching applications via the menubar. Open applications would all be listed, and you could select one to make it active, as well as selectively hiding and showing your apps. If that's the way you like your interface, you should check out ASM and multiXFinder. These two apps offer OS 9-style app switching functionality, and there's not much different between them, except that ASM costs money and mutliXFinder is open source. One advantage ASM has is the ability to drill down and use each app's menu items, just like right-clicking on an icon in the OS X Dock. That's definitely useful, but leaving it out is an old-school touch that classic Mac OS aficionados can probably deal with.
[via Macworld Mac Gems]
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