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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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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...
 

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Rex

I want to be able to move windows with three fingers. (similar to scrolling with two).

December 06 2007 at 2:01 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Michael Walsh

$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.

December 05 2007 at 1:20 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Carniphage

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.

December 05 2007 at 8:39 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
joao

Or you could just use voiceover commands. With the bezel and all..

December 05 2007 at 6:57 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
dazonic

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

December 04 2007 at 8:28 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Alex

$20!!!! This shiznit is a standard feature in windows. Seems unfair.

December 04 2007 at 8:07 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jiraffe

Why pay $20 for something that isn't as good as what you can get for free: http://jon.smajda.com/blog/?p=609

December 04 2007 at 8:07 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
John Doe

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.

December 04 2007 at 7:48 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Twisted Intellect

Didn't Windows 3,1 have that? Yeah, I'd say $20 is a bit steep...

December 04 2007 at 7:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Daniel Murphy

$20 for that? Seems more like the kind of app that people will only get when it comes in a bundle with something useful.

December 04 2007 at 6:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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