Mac OS X only: Free utility TwoUp moves and resizes windows from the comfort of your keyboard for quick and easy optimisation of your screen real estate. Earlier this week we showed you Maxto, a similar Windows tool that tiles windows across your desktop via keyboard shortcuts. TwoUp is a similar beast, though it’s unfortunately a little lighter on features. Where Maxto allows you to define regions on your screen for more fine-grained control over how large your resized windows are, TwoUp, simply halves your screen vertically and horizontally. By default, pressing Cmd+Opt+Ctrl+Up/Down/Left/Right will move and resize the active window to the corresponding half of your screen (the shortcuts are customisable). So while TwoUp doesn’t quite pack the wallop of its Windows counterpart, it still packs some useful screen optimisation goodies. TwoUp is a free download, Mac OS X only. Thanks WandaRadassical!
TwoUp [Irradiated Software]Windows only: If you’re looking for a lightweight tool for compartmentalising space on your monitor and need support for multiple screens, MaxTo lets you subdivide to your heart’s content. Upon first running MaxTo, each of your monitors is grayed out and a several small buttons are displayed. Using the buttons, you can divide each screen horizontally or vertically and grab the dividing bar to resize the space. Each space can then be further divided as small as you desire. The grey background is slightly transparent, which makes it a breeze to line up the dividers bars with existing window sizes (like when you’ve got your browser windows just so) or wallpaper details. You get five basic templates you can load on a per-monitor-basis for quickly sizing windows to common layouts without having to fuss with the settings. Once you’ve arrived at a happy layout and save your settings, from then on any window maximised in that portion of the grid you’ve created will be sized to fit. More »
