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MercuryMover: move windows with your keyboard
I'm a big fan of keyboard launcher utilities like Quicksilver and LaunchBar, so I was intrigued by what might be thought of as the next logical step. MercuryMover is a little Preference Pane utility that allows you to move or resize on-screen windows without using your mouse. The idea is that you hit a user definable key combo and a bezel will pop up which lets you to move or resize the active window by a set number of pixels (or to the edge of the screen). MercuryMover is $20 and a demo is available from Helium Foot Software.
[via Macworld]
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Daniel said 6:50PM on 12-04-2007
$20 for that? Seems more like the kind of app that people will only get when it comes in a bundle with something useful.
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Twisted Intellect said 7:01PM on 12-04-2007
Didn't Windows 3,1 have that? Yeah, I'd say $20 is a bit steep...
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thethirdmoose said 7:48PM on 12-04-2007
I agree about $20 being too much, and also for the previous post (Scribble). This is a cool tool... that I would use exactly 3 times. Something that would be great as freeware.
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Jiraffe said 8:10PM on 12-04-2007
Why pay $20 for something that isn't as good as what you can get for free: http://jon.smajda.com/blog/?p=609
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Alex Bratu said 8:07PM on 12-04-2007
$20!!!! This shiznit is a standard feature in windows. Seems unfair.
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dazonic said 11:10PM on 12-04-2007
This actually comes stock with OS X with Ctrl+Opt+` with VoiceOver on.
Ctrl+Opt+Shift+~ to resize window.
http://images.apple.com/accessibility/voiceover/pdf/VoiceOverKeyboard_Color_v2.pdf
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joao said 7:02AM on 12-05-2007
Or you could just use voiceover commands. With the bezel and all..
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Carniphage said 8:45AM on 12-05-2007
One interesting fact is that people using keyboard shortcuts always think that they are faster (myself included) - but the stopwatch shows that mouse commands are always faster.
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Michael Walsh said 1:20PM on 12-05-2007
$20? that's awfully expensive for such a basic tool.
Hint: If you want to do this in any version of windows since 3, hit alt+space and from the menu you can move, resize, minimize, etc...
That tool really isn't worth the cost! Freeware maybe.
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Rex said 2:01AM on 12-06-2007
I want to be able to move windows with three fingers. (similar to scrolling with two).
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