Win Split Revolution
If you're rockin dual 24" monitors or enjoy viewing multiple windows at the same time, listen up - this column's for you. Imagine dividing up your screen real estate into 9 different quadrants, a 3x3 square if you will, very similar to your keyboard's numpad. Now imagine you could instantly place your windows into each of the quadrants by pressing three simple keys. That's the power of Win Split Revolution.
Win Split is a small desktop utility which allows you to easily organize your open windows by tiling, resizing, and positioning them to make the best use of your desktop real estate. Specifically, Win Split especially useful for high-end LCD screens with high resolutions or laptop users attached to an external monitor. Instead of having to drag and drop windows, and resizing them to the correct dimensions, Win Split allows users to snap windows into specific tiled configurations using easy keyboard shortcuts.
When a window is selected, its location and size can be adjusted by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Num. 7 represents the top left, 9 the top right, 3 the bottom right, and so forth. After trying different numbers and relocalizing my windows with the numpad, Win Split had this columnist smiling with glee.
For mouse fans, windows can be rearranged using the "Drag'n'Go" feature. While holding Ctrl+Alt and dragging a window, different areas of the screen will highlight, indicating the location and size a window will snap to. This is an alternative to using the numpad keyboard shortcuts to resize windows and offers a nice visual feedback that previews window localization.
Although very simple on the surface, Win Split truly flexes its muscles under the hood. Keyboard shortcuts are fully customizable - on a laptop without a numpad? No worries, simply use Ctrl+Alt+Q through C as your numpad. Don't want to split your screen down the middle? You can control the dimensions of your resized windows in the layout settings menu. It even supports eight different languages and works on dual (even triple) monitor displays.
Aside from rearranging windows, Win Split can also "mosaic" all your windows instantly, similar to Mac's Exposé. Windows fusion allows users to compare two windows and "slide" the divider between them to the appropriate ratio. There is a "close all windows" function, aka Boss Button, and you can also maximize or minimize any window from the keyboard shortcuts. If using multiple monitors, you can "throw" windows from one monitor to the other using arrow keys.
Overall this is a light (ran <3500 K), powerful, and easy to learn tool for windows users that increases productivity and impress the ladies. Win Split is currently unavailable for the Mac, since Exposé limits the market for Win Split users. Win Split is free and available today.
WinSplit Revolution download: http://is.gd/9LmS
