Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

Last month I reviewed Divvy, an application for resizing, rearranging, and repositioning the windows on your Mac or Windows desktop. As I said then, Divvy is a great tool for quickly managing the ...

Here are three keyboard commands you can use while resizing windows. These commands give you more control over windows in OS X. To resize a window, put your cursor over the edge until you see a double ...

On Gnome (a linux desktop environment) I can move/resize a window (even if it's not active) by holding the meta/command key and using the left mouse button to move, or the middle mouse button to ...

Most technical authors aren’t wild about taking screenshots because setting up a good screenshot can take longer than writing about it. You have to make sure fields are appropriately filled in, the ...

At times, it becomes difficult to move, resize, drag, and manage several separate open windows at the same time—or move parts of them off the screen. AltDrag attempts to resolve this issue. It is a ...

Apple is finally letting go of old windowing conventions that date back to the original Macintosh, allowing users in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion to fluidly interact with windows any way they like. Back in 1984 ...

The Windows 8 Start screen is designed to make it so that you can easily resize and move tiles as well as make new tile groups. This allows you to organize the interface in a way that works best for ...