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Sep 22 2010

VIDEO: Windows Management with Divvy

Divvy 318x278 VIDEO: Windows Management with Divvy As boring and uninspiring as managing onscreen windows is, Divvy from Mizage makes it dead sexy. I know Mac OS X has Spaces and Exposé and I was all excited about those before they came out too but, now that I have them, they drive me crazy. Spaces I just have turned off and Exposé, though it helps me every so often when I lose a window, is just not a part of my geek utility belt as much as I had envisioned.

Divvy, on the other hand, does what I need doing and does it well. I can tell it, “I want this window to take up exactly 4/7 of the left side of my screen and I want this other window wit take up the other 3/7.” Heck, I can even tell it to make them overlap a bit. All I have to do is summon Divvy’s little window, drag and draw the area on the miniature screen it shows and the window snaps into submission.Then I can save those dimensions and setups to Divvy’s shortcuts menu and reduce the whole procedure down to summoning Divvy’s window and hitting a shortcut key.

Divvy does suffer from some logistical problems with complicated application interfaces like Adobe Photoshop, where there are windows and palettes and multiple navigation bars, but it does work—you may have to adjust the grid in Divvy’s Appearance tab to get better handling around the toolbars. Divvy is fabulous and sells for $14 US.

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Apr 27 2009

What’s Realô really doing ó Part 3– Realô Replies

By: Jon Gales

A MacMerc reader sent me
a reply he got from Real concerning
the lack
of RealPlayer for OS X. It’s the first reply I’ve gotten. If you have any
replies please send them in so I can post them! If you click on the [comment] links throughout the email you will get my take. Feel free to send in any rebuttals
you have.

LETTER FROM REAL:

Hello
**NAME OF SENDER**. Actually you are about the 50th person who has stated
this question to us today via the sales email alias. If you could please sent
this response back to all of the other people that have emailed this same
response. Real appreciates all of your input and understands your dying need
to have RealOnePlayer compatible with OSX. I personally am glad that so many
of you are enthusiastic about getting it.
I work in server sales and will pass on your messages. The thing is this.
Real is in deed working on a version compatible with OSX due to be out by
no later than the end of this year [comment]. Unfortunately
Mac versions although very important just make up such a small amount of the
computer universe that they are often the last to be focused on.[comment]
Real makes their technology compatible with over 10 different Operating Systems
and the other platforms are in much higher demand [comment]
unfortunately so we have to get to them first. The OSX version will be out
towards the end of the year. Unfortunately that is all the give me as far
as a date goes.
I will definitely forward all of this response to our product development
department in hopes that this will spur them on to expedite this process [comment].
Thanks again for your input and please  inform the others that emailed
me as well. Thanks. -Chris

–

My Take:

1) "To
be out by no later than the end of this year"

This is what I was going for. We have at least a target. A development time
of 20 months is a little lengthy but I’ll take it. At least we got a time frame
(something that wasn’t posted on their site). [top]

–

2) "Mac
versions although very important just make up such a small amount of the computer
universe that they are often the last to be focused on"

Wow. That makes me very angry. Here’s an analagy: I tend to focus my eyes on
Lexus vehicles rather than on Ford’s. Lexus has a very small market share but
they sure get respect. Imagine if no tires were being made for all of the new
model Lexus’! The stores just say "Sorry Mr. Gales there just isn’t enough
market share to fund making a tire just for your type of car. We’ll have one
out by the end of the year.". You can read the Naked
Truth to continue this analogy but I don’t think you need to. Any rabid
Mac fan will be angered by the above kill statement. Good thing I’m not militant.
icon razz Whats Realô really doing ó Part 3 Realô Replies [top]

–

3) "Real
makes their technology compatible with over 10 different Operating Systems and
the other platforms are in much higher demand"

Name them. Go ahead, try
it. This is what I came up with:

  1. Windows XP
  2. Windows 2000
  3. Windows ME
  4. Windows 98
  5. Windows 95
  6. Windows 3.1
  7. DOS
  8. Linux
  9. Unix (non OS X )
  10. BeOS

On Real.com you can download
their player for 8 OS’s, not 10:

  1. Windows 98
  2. Windows ME
  3. Windows 2000
  4. Windows NT 4.0
  5. Windows XP
  6. Mac OS 8.1
  7. Mac OS 8.5 or higher
  8. UNIX

The one’s in bold have no
chance of being in higher demand than OS X. Already OS X has a larger user base
than all GUI based Linux distributions so cancel out Unix. How many people do
you know run OS 8? I don’t know anyone. But, it runs RealPlayer. Nice. This
"fact" in the letter was complete BS, plain and simple. [top]

–

4) "I
will definitely forward all of this response to our product development department
in hopes that this will spur them on to expedite this process"

Good. I thank you for your
support in this effort. Hopefully we can all have a smug grin on our face when
RealX comes out a few months early. I congratulate you all. We did something
that one person couldn’t – get a reply out of the monster. Give yourself
a pat on the back! [top]

 

If you get any replies from
Real please forward them to jon@macmerc.com.
Thanks! – Jon

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Apr 27 2009

Capturing Jaguar’s Screen

This week we have a few tools that will put you in charge of your screen.

Print Window

A truly missed feature of good old OS 9 is the ability to print windows. With Print Window you can bring that functionality back. This program can be activated with a command-P in the Finder or from the “services” menu. Preferences let you tweak what exactly is printed. Very useful.

Kunvert

If screenshots are more your style, then check out Kunvert. With Kunvert you can, well, convert those pesky PDF screenshots OS X generates into jpg’s without having to whip out Preview. Handy.

Capture 1.1

Now a freebie for our Mac OS 9 friends. This screen capture program is used to create 60 x 60 pixel graphic. Intended to help you make a thumbnail of your web site, it can also capture anything on the screen.

Be sure to tune in next week for a new batch of freeware,

Brian

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