How To Zoom, Resize, Move Your Mac’s Windows.

David Campbell said:

Hi, thank you for the helpful tips! I have a question I hope you can answer. After resizing a window, (any window - Excel, Finder, etc.) then closing that window, how can I have that same window open in the same size as I left it(and preferably same location) each time I open it? I can do this in Windows but I don’t know how on a Mac. Is there a view or layout setting I need to change? Your help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you, David

Aristidning said:

I’ve tried both “Zoom” (it’s actually called Zooom, now Zooom/2) and MondoMouse, and I agree with Jesse J: MondoMouse is better. The only upper hand Zooom has is the magnetics feature, which is kinda neat; but MondoMouse is more stable and works with more programs.

Another cool window manager is SizeUp, which allows you to move windows to different areas of your screen(s) with the keyboard. A great supplement to Zooom or MondoMouse! There’s also a limited freeware version called 2Up.

Jesse J said:

Zooom/2 is cool but doesn’t work with iTunes, Quicktime, DVD Player, MS Office 2008… so I kept looking for something else and came across Mondo Mouse.
http://www.atomicbird.com/mondomouse/ Much smoother operation, creates a prefpane instead of running a program, highlights the window being modified… curiously still doesn’t work for DVD player and quicktime though.

Chas Coffman said:

It’s little utilities like Zoom that show us that Apple either leaves a little room for 3rd party innovation or doesn’t pay enough attention to what users need. Zoom is worthy.

David Coffin said:

Invaluable for those all-too-common situations when some app opens up with its titlebar off screen (why does that happen? 2 monitors?)

As usual with multi-featured tools, there’s only this and maybe one or two other features that I use Zooom for a lot, so learning one or two new key-strokes isn’t such a problem.

Thanks for reminding me of Zooom’s other tricks, tho, Kaate:)
(What’s a few vowels between friends?)