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WWDC Demo: MercuryMover and Highbrow
If you prefer to keep your fingers on the keyboard and away from mice or trackpads, MercuryMover will allow you to do something simple: move and resize windows with the keyboard. There are a number of hotkeys for wiggling the windows into place, in 2 different increments, and a method of resizing windows via the keyboard.
Highbrow gives you fine control over which browser opens a certain link. For example, if someone sends you a link in IM and you want to open in it Firefox, but your default browser is Safari, you'd have to copy/paste that link into Firefox, or Safari will open it instead. But with Highbrow, you can quickly choose which browser opens what. Instead of mucking around in Safari prefs, Highbrow sets the default browser via handy menu bar item. Plus, you can opt for a floating window each time you click a link, and choose on the fly.
MercuryMover is $20 and a free trial is available. Highbrow is $12 and a free trial is also available.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
bryan said 10:04PM on 6-25-2009
MercuryMover is neat, but I prefer SizeUp for keyboard-based window management. While it doesn't offer as precise control as MM over window dimensions, it gets Maximize right (which IMHO is far more important) and provides excellent multi-monitor support. Plus, you get to name your own price when purchasing a license.
http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/
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fellowweb said 4:11AM on 6-26-2009
Sorry for Helium Foot Software, but is this really worth a seperate article?
As mentioned by bryan, there's SizeUp and its slightly feature-limited free version called TwoUp also by Irradiated Software (http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/twoup/).
A free alternative to Highbrow is Choosy (http://www.choosyosx.com/about).
Your article would have been much more helpful - also for Helium Foot Software - if you had outlined advantages of their software which are worth the extra buck. With this article, someone puts up a comment referring to SizeUp, TwoUp and Choosy. With two of the three programs being free, who really instantly thinks of supporting the probably good work of Helium Foot Software?
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