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<blockquote data-quote="IvanLasston" data-source="post: 1018091" data-attributes="member: 145676"><p>Great thread and thanks for reviving it. What I noticed about Mac is that Apple has a way to do something and everyone accepts it. Unfortunately coming from Windows and/or Linux - there are things I like to do with shortcuts and I have searched far and wide for replacements. Below are what I have found - and hopefully others find it useful.</p><p></p><p>Better Touch Tool</p><p><a href="http://blog.boastr.net/" target="_blank">Better multi monitor & multitouch experience for Mac OS X by Andreas Hegenberg SecondBar & BetterTouchTool Blog</a></p><p>It makes magic mice and touchpads even better. Configure gestures to do anything - expose, application expose, open dashboard, open spaces, open an app - you name it. Instead of assigning a hotkey - you can assign a gesture. Plus with the latest version you get that windows 7 easy tile functionality - works pretty well. See this youtube video to see the windows 7 version.</p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmiPzMY4nuE" target="_blank">YouTube - Windows 7 Snap TV Commercial</a></p><p>From what I found searching - to do stuff like tiling windows for Mac took an apple script.</p><p>Added bonus from the same guy is secondbar - when you have two monitors you can put a menu bar on both screens.</p><p></p><p>Zooom2</p><p><a href="http://coderage-software.com/zooom/index.html" target="_blank">Zooom/2: Window management for your Mac made easy</a></p><p>This one costs money but I like the ability to move windows without having to click the title bar. Standard function in a linux windows manager. Zooom2 also adds magnetics to your move. Something else that also comes standard with linux. It also provides windows resize with hotkeys of your choosing. $20 is steep for something that has been around forever on linux.</p><p></p><p>As stated before - Quicksilver. RTFM but I use it to launch my applications - it is the fastest way to launch a program.</p><p><a href="http://www.blacktree.com/" target="_blank">Blacktree</a></p><p></p><p>Show All and Better Touch tool</p><p>I configured hide all windows in Better Touch tool to be a 5 finger swipe down. I wanted a show all windows gesture to be 5 finger swipe up. I noticed that hide all windows was available but show all windows wasn't. Show all windows is a command under the application menu. To get this all to work I had to assign a hotkey to Show All. To do this Go to System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> Select Application Shortcuts -> hit the + button and add Show All. I assigned it ctrl-alt-cmd-h -> You can then assign this hotkey to 5 finger swipe (or whatever) in Better Touch Tool.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IvanLasston, post: 1018091, member: 145676"] Great thread and thanks for reviving it. What I noticed about Mac is that Apple has a way to do something and everyone accepts it. Unfortunately coming from Windows and/or Linux - there are things I like to do with shortcuts and I have searched far and wide for replacements. Below are what I have found - and hopefully others find it useful. Better Touch Tool [URL="http://blog.boastr.net/"]Better multi monitor & multitouch experience for Mac OS X by Andreas Hegenberg SecondBar & BetterTouchTool Blog[/URL] It makes magic mice and touchpads even better. Configure gestures to do anything - expose, application expose, open dashboard, open spaces, open an app - you name it. Instead of assigning a hotkey - you can assign a gesture. Plus with the latest version you get that windows 7 easy tile functionality - works pretty well. See this youtube video to see the windows 7 version. [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmiPzMY4nuE"]YouTube - Windows 7 Snap TV Commercial[/URL] From what I found searching - to do stuff like tiling windows for Mac took an apple script. Added bonus from the same guy is secondbar - when you have two monitors you can put a menu bar on both screens. Zooom2 [URL="http://coderage-software.com/zooom/index.html"]Zooom/2: Window management for your Mac made easy[/URL] This one costs money but I like the ability to move windows without having to click the title bar. Standard function in a linux windows manager. Zooom2 also adds magnetics to your move. Something else that also comes standard with linux. It also provides windows resize with hotkeys of your choosing. $20 is steep for something that has been around forever on linux. As stated before - Quicksilver. RTFM but I use it to launch my applications - it is the fastest way to launch a program. [URL="http://www.blacktree.com/"]Blacktree[/URL] Show All and Better Touch tool I configured hide all windows in Better Touch tool to be a 5 finger swipe down. I wanted a show all windows gesture to be 5 finger swipe up. I noticed that hide all windows was available but show all windows wasn't. Show all windows is a command under the application menu. To get this all to work I had to assign a hotkey to Show All. To do this Go to System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> Select Application Shortcuts -> hit the + button and add Show All. I assigned it ctrl-alt-cmd-h -> You can then assign this hotkey to 5 finger swipe (or whatever) in Better Touch Tool. [/QUOTE]
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