Quickly change to an open application

Sometimes it's difficult to return to a file or an application that's open by clicking an open window in the usual way. Here are two ways:

In System Preferences, set one of the corners of your desktop so that when you move the pointer into it it shows you either Mission Control - all the windows and applications that are open - or just the applications.

Or, press cmd-tab. You can then tab across the row of your open applications and stop on the one you want to return to. Neat and quick.

Mac - 2 useful applications

If you can remember way back on Macs, they used to show a little icon top R. on the screen to show what application you were in at the time. Well handy, doubtless why Apple abolished this useful feature a long time ago.



However, thanks to Eerko Vissering for developing the little application called Focus, which does the same thing. I've used it with Leopard / Snow Leopard for ages. Eerko has updated it to run on Lion / Mountain Lion. Thanks Eerko!

http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/11356/focus
http://eerko.nl/software/






Another application I use all the time is QuickApps. This puts a little icon in your menu bar - click on it to show a dropdown list of all your applications.

http://download.cnet.com/QuickApps/3000-2344_4-201757.html