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I don't know Mnosnap, but I'm very happy with Glui http://glui.me/

Thanks for the pointer. I'm still running the pre evernote sketch, but it's starting to show it's age.

Also http://snapnote.io

Yes! I love that software. I used it to make the gestures the same between my touchpad and my magic mouse. It's stupid how it's 3 fingers on one and 2 on the other.

I was also surprised not seeing Better Touch Tool there. It is a great program.

For example, I've mapped switching between tabs to TipTap left and TipTap right for any software that has tabs (Chrome, FireFox, Terminal, TextMate, etc.).

For window management i love Moom, as it integrates really well with OSX.

To add more gestures for my touchpad (like TipTap-Left to switch tabs in every application that has them) I use Better Touch Tool.

I like the simplicity of Windows Magnet.

Also, Slate is extremely flexible: https://github.com/jigish/slate/blob/master/README.md

OSS alternative to Divvy: ShiftIt https://github.com/fikovnik/ShiftIt

Thanks!

Tried out DragonDrop - it's pretty awesome and instantly solves a problem I never realised I had!

Each time I use DragonDrop I'm met with "Wait, what did you just do!?" It solves such an interesting problem - it's a must have.

Does Divvy let you tile windows with margins between windows or the edge of the screen?

Yup. A bonus of the cli utility is that you can pass a program argument to it, so when another script is done the "constant wake" state is ended. The man page has more info.

It's sort of abandonware now, isn't it? There's NerdTool, which works well enough for me, but also hasn't been updated in a long time...

If you want some fun, try out Cathode. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cathode/id499233976?mt=12

If you want it to stay in the same space, you might need to open up preferences and turn off lion style fullscreen mode.

Check out TotalTerminal as well. For me its global, full width visor + tabs became THE way to use the Terminal.

Extremely user unfriendly though. Just installed it and it doesn't even sensible defaults for you to hit the ground running. Their answer: "Read the docs and write your own configs." Nobody has time for that!

Edit: Another commenter suggests http://spectacleapp.com/ - works really well out of the box - in fact it does what I expected Slate to do.

binaryages TotalFinder is also pretty awesome.

Yes really great app. You can also set goals like 'code at least 4hrs a day' and will be notified if you succeeded in, with your weekly summary.

Seriously! Feels like 1999.

I thought it was lazy resizing in an image editor, but it turns out it's just bad CSS.

They have a "max-width" on "BODY IMG", but then some script or some deployment process added "width:" and "height:" on each image individually.

The max-width alone would resize the image nicely, but the presence of the "height:" causes the vertical stretch.

(Sorry, the web-debugger in me kicks in without being asked.)

Yes I know that was god awful panic typo.

I don't use SizeUp, so this solution won't apply to that particular utility, but I do use a window manager. Moom, which I use, is activated by a single keyboard shortcut. Once activated, Moom captures shortcuts that might otherwise be handled by other applications. This makes all window resize actions a two step process, but I find that's a worthwhile trade-off for avoiding shortcut collisions.

you might want to look into Keycue http://www.ergonis.com/products/keycue/ or CheatSheet http://www.cheatsheetapp.com/CheatSheet/ (only works in the current application)

If you find yourself with a Terminal window open:

     alias win7="bless -mount /Volumes/win7/ -legacy -setBoot -nextonly; shutdown -r now"
     alias debian="bless -mount /Volumes/wheezy/ -legacy -setBoot -nextonly; shutdown -r now"
     alias arch="bless -mount /Volumes/arch/ -legacy -setBoot -nextonly; shutdown -r now"

Obviously change the volume paths as needed. Typing "win7" into terminal will restart into my Windows 7 install, likewise for "debian" and "arch". Any subsequent reboot will automatically reboot back into OSX

Not quite your wish, but I recently hacked up another solution using an Applescript-based approach. Unlike other versions I'd found, this approach can be made passwordless. See the gist below and the first comment that describes passwordless operation:

  https://gist.github.com/jwhitley/8377268

This can be invoked effortlessly from tools like LaunchBar or FastScripts.

Credit to @robjwells, whose original gist I forked and modified to be passwordless.

You could probably write a simple automator "service" that calls a bash script or something, and have it show up in the global services menu. You could define a key shortcut for it too.