One of the biggest gripes I have with OS X is that when you hit cmd-tab (equivalent of alt-tab) to switch to another application, *all* of that application’s windows come forward and cover everything else that’s open. So if you’re using a text editor and Firefox to develop a website, when you cmd-tab from the editor to the browser, the editor can get hidden because all of your browser windows will come forward. Really annoying.

The solution is to use another window-switching app. Liteswitch (shareware, what I use) or Witch (free) can do the job — it can do alt-tab on a window-by-window basis. If there are other good ones, please let me know. One problem is that OS X greedily hogs the keyboard shortcut cmd-tab, so you can’t bind something like Witch to it.

But that’s not entirely true — you can use the cmd-tab shortcut with a little work. This application enhancer called Pulltab will wrest the cmd-tab keyboard combination from the OS, so now apps like Witch can use it.

This is just one step closer to keyboard nirvana.