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Saturday, October 31, 2009
Work

Afloat Updates With Snow Leopard Support, New Features

9:00AM Whitson Gordon | Mac only: Open-source window manager Afloat updated to version 2.0 today, with complete support for Snow Leopard and a couple of new features, such as pinning to the desktop and resizing windows from anywhere using keyboard shortcuts. More »
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Saturday, June 14, 2008
Design

Afloat Manages Your Windows from the Keyboard

6:00AM Adam Pash | Mac OS X only: Open-source donationware application Afloat adds several useful tools and effects to your windows. We’ve mentioned Afloat once before, but it’s since updated with a more polished look and tons of new features. Apart from standards windows effects like transparency and always-on-top floating, Afloat can reveal the file a window is displaying through a shortcut (Cmd-Ctrl-Up) or keep a window on top as you switch Spaces on a per-window basis. The new and improved Afloat is part eye candy, part productivity, but unfortunately it only works with Cocoa-based apps like Safari and TextEdit, which means popular apps like Firefox and even iTunes are left out in the cold. Afloat is donationware, Mac OS X only. Afloat More »
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