[Mac] SizeUp makes window management on the Mac… a dream
I’m sure I’m not the only switcher to find the Finder windows on the Mac… a little tedious (Finder is, to those that don’t know, the Explorer equivalent on the Mac). Nobody can explain exactly what the green button does (it supposedly zooms to the perfect size for what’s in the window, but what does that mean?), and it seems like the least flexible application on the Mac. A number of Finder, aka file-management, alternatives exist, the most famous one being Path Finder, which is a something of an overkill, I think, but it has a loyal fan base.
SizeUp only recently came to the market, previously being a freeware app called TwoUp, which has now been supplemented with this pay-what’s-fair app. Paying what’s fair incidentally means, ca. $1.50 (or € 1.70) and upwards, which is a great system I think.
What SizeUp does is allowing you to assign keyboard shortcuts to how you want a window to be placed. You can have two windows sideways, like so:
Or four windows on the screen, like so:
Not to mention, assign a shortcut to maximise a window to fill the screen (finally!!!). As mentioned, you can use TwoUp for free and get SizeUp at a fair price. So grab a copy and make your life easier here!
Vincent
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Tags: finder, Productivity, window management
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