Mac OS X doesn’t offer the ability to automatically maximise a window to fill the screen, which can be very frustrating if you prefer to work without distractions (and doubly so if you’re on a notebook with a relatively small screen and have come from a Windows background). Free utility RightZoom solves that problem, changing the green window control from “expand to appropriate size” to maximising to the full width and height of the screen (less the Dock).
Mac OS X: If you have a billion windows open right now, all vying for your attention, HazeOver will help you stay focused by making them transparent, helping you focus only on the active window.
The highly anticipated (and controversial) GNOME 3 desktop environment released its final version today, adding better hardware integration, window management and application management to Linux.
Often, when you “pop out” a window from Chrome (like a Google Talk chat), it loses its ability to be grouped with other tabs. Here’s how to turn a popped out window into a tabbed window so you can de-clutter your desktop.
In Exposé on the Mac, there’s a neat feature that lets you show only windows from a certain program by clicking its icon in the dock. Keyboard junkies, however, can also get this fix by command+tabbing to the app while in Exposé.
