I found switching between apps on a busy touch-only machine kind of frustrating in the developer preview release of Windows 8. There was no keyboard to hit ALT-TAB, and flipping between each app with the swipe-from-left gesture was annoying when there were more than just a couple of running apps.<\/p>\n
When I was showing my updated slate to my MVP Summit room mate I accidentally stumbled onto a feature I\u2019d never noticed before, and I am now officially dubbing it as App Peekaboo.<\/p>\n
Normally, you swipe from the left of the screen to flip between apps. If you pause 1\/4 of the way through the screen then the new app is docked\/snapped to take up a small piece of the screen for a side-by-side view. However, if you just pull an app out and then return it back to the left, a different thing happens. The side-by-side docked\/snapped window appears and shows all of your alternative running apps. You just have to touch one to bring it up. A big improvement. At least I think it is \u2026 I\u2019ve never noticed this gesture before installing the Consumer Preview (beta).<\/p>\n
I found switching between apps on a busy touch-only machine kind of frustrating in the developer preview release of Windows 8. There was no keyboard to hit ALT-TAB, and flipping between each app with the swipe-from-left gesture was annoying when there were more than just a couple of running apps. When I was showing my … Continue reading “Windows 8 App Switching Made Easy \u2013 AKA App Peekaboo”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[109],"class_list":["post-12107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-desktop","tag-windows-8"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}