review by Tom Piper
Do you get frustrated by the limited ability (title bar or lower right corner) to modify the windows on your desktop? Want to stretch, and relocate at will? There’s an app for that . . .
Flexiglass 1.3 from Nulana (http://nulana.com/flexiglass) offers a convenient way to move, resize, maximize, and close windows on a Mac with a mouse, trackpad and keyboard.
- Move or resize the active window by placing the mouse cursor over it, press definable key (I use the Option key) and start dragging windows with left or right mouse button.
- Arrange windows on your screen any way you like by moving a window to the right, left or top, and it will automatically resize and move itself to fill the half of the screen or full screen.
- User-defined shortcuts allow you to move windows to halves or quarters of the screen and back to original size (place a window in the center of the screen or move it from one monitor to another).
- Finger gestures used on your macbook trackpad or Magic trackpad to move and resize, and save different settings for a trackpad and a mouse, then automatically change them when you plug or unplug devices.
- Double-click on window title bar is the easiest way to expand it to full screen.
- Change the default behavior of standard Mac OS X buttons like using right-click on the green Zoom button to maximize a window to full screen, and right-click on Close window button to quit the whole application.
This nifty little utility can be installed from the App Store for only $9.99 (15-day free trial allows you to try before you buy). You will find yourself smiling (maybe even a giggle) when resizing and relocation of a window becomes so easy . . . it has been fully upgraded for Lion.
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