Queue Public
Today marks another first for Helium Foot Software. We released MercuryMover v2.0 as our first public beta. By way of introduction, MercuryMover enables you to move and resize the windows on your Mac from the keyboard. Of course, we're hoping that this public beta generates a little interest, but really i think that the product will speak for itself. If you're the keyboardin' type and you give MercuryMover a try, i'm confident that you'll like it. The new features only make it even more compelling and my goal is to get MercuryMover to the fingertips of as many users as possible. After that, i can only hope that people will grow to be as dependent on it as i have become. I already can't go back to v1.1 due to my heavy use of the shortcuts feature. The genesis of this feature was the specific placement of my iTerm, and iChat windows on my secondary display at my former full time gig. In that job, i would position these windows whenever i rebooted, and would leave them in place until the next reboot. I meant this feature to be something that you used to set windows up and then leave them alone. As is often the case, i was completely wrong! The most powerful use is to have your windows not just where you want them, but when you want them. If you're like me, then "when you want them" is probably "right now". My two most common operations with MercuryMover have become:
- hitting "d" which moves the window to the left edge of my main screen, sizing it to about 55% of the width of said screen. This shortcut is perfect for reading (documents, emails, web pages etc) and writing prose (email, blog posts, documentation).
- hitting "/" which moves the window to my secondary screen (which is to the right of my main screen, is considerably smaller and its bottom edge lines up with the bottom edge of the main one). this is perfect for something that i want to see while still working (console, a TaskPaper to do list etc)
I'm MercuryMover's longest standing user and its biggest fan, but i don't love it because i wrote it. I wrote it because i love it. Try our public beta. I bet that you'll love it too.