14 DAY TRIAL // Helium Foot Software has recently updated MercuryMover, the company's Mac OS X app that allows you to move and resize any window on your Mac with your keyboard.
The latest release notes for the software reveal that Helium Foot has been busy fixing an intermittent system hang when disconnecting/reconnecting a second display, and a bug preventing centering or maximizing a window on a secondary display below the primary one. The developer has also updated the look and feel of the buttons in the heads-up display.
Using MercuryMover, you can move and resize virtually any window without even touching the mouse. As a preference pane app, MercuryMover allows you to tweak settings like move and resize by 1, 10, 100 pixels at a time (or to the edge of the current screen), or set your own shortcuts. The app offers an unintrusive heads-up display interface and multi-screen awareness.
“MercuryMover reduces the friction you feel when you use your Mac,” Helium Foot Software says. “With MercuryMover, you can move and resize windows on your Mac from the keyboard, positioning them precisely where you want.” According to the company, “by shunning the slow and imprecise mouse, MercuryMover empowers you to work faster and play more.”
Shortcuts, the app's flagship feature, provide a mechanism to assign a single key to a favorite window size and/or position. While using MercuryMover, hitting that key will instantly change the window to the specified size and location. By typing the width, height and left/top coordinates into the shortcut editor in MercuryMover’s preference pane, you can create shortcuts by cloning the size and position of an existing window.
Helium Foot Software supports the National Cancer Coalition (NCC) through its philanthropy program, which allows customers to make a contribution to NCC when purchasing any Helium Foot product. “Every contribution given by our users is matched dollar for dollar by Helium Foot Software,” Keith Alperin, head of Helium Foot Software, told us in an interview last year. “Right now, our monthly contributions are still pretty small, but it's a start and I'm really proud to have created the program,” he added.