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I'm disappointed in the answer to the following questions:

Can I tile two windows without 17 clicks and mouse movements? Fortunately for the creator of Cinch, it seems the answer is no.

Can I archive a gmail message? No?

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I use Divvy for Mac for arranging windows. I love it.

http://mizage.com/divvy/#divvyMac

I'm a fan of SizeUp. http://irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/

SizeUp is great if you have multiple monitors too, you can send a window from one screen to another in one keystroke.

except Adobe Air apps (stupid hipchat)

SizeUp is awesome. Easy window management without having to touch the mouse? Yes please!

I use Moom. It's inexpensive and you just hover your mouse above the maximize icon.

http://manytricks.com/moom/

Yup, the fifteen bucks I spent on Divvy were definitely worth it.

I just purchased this. One feature I'm really looking for is the ability to launch multiple apps in a specific configuration. The best solution I've found so far is using Applescript. I realize I might just be overlooking already implemented features. Anyone have a recommendation?

Don't forget ShiftIt.

Completely Free and does everything divvy and SizeUp can do !!

A git repo, with latest chages based on

  https://github.com/fikovnik/ShiftIt/network

appears to be here:

  https://github.com/mehowte/ShiftIt

Very easy to build with Xcode 4 on SL 10.6.8 ...

I'll be happy to upload a binary of the latest build I made last night for those in need (just ask).

As far as I can remember I had problems when I compiled it to a universal binary so if anyone else does try compiling it directly to your architecture.

It has always been possible to archive a message by moving it to the "All Mail" mailbox, right?

About GMail archiving: Really not? (I haven't read trough this massive review yet.)

At least on iOS it is possible to convince the delete button to archive. (By setting the trash folder to 'All mail', if I remember correctly.) I would imagine that Apple Mail should be at least as configurable as its iOS counterpart.

iOS supports archiving perfectly fine. No need for any tricks.

Lion kinda does. You can archive but doing that will actually create an “Archive” folder and moves the mail there. That’s not the expected behavior when using Gmail. (The expected behavior would be to move the mail to the “All Messages” folder, or, in Gmail lingo, to remove all labels from the message. iOS does that, Lion doesn’t.)

Archiving is handled through IMAP delete by default. Check your GMail settings and go to the "Forwarding and POP/IMAP" tab. Most likely your setting for "When I mark a message in IMAP as deleted" is "Archive the message (default)."

But I want to be able to delete mails (anywhere). I don’t want to repurpose the delete button, no way.

Move the mail to the trash folder. Sorry, not a 1-button solution, but it works.

Yeah... And then you delete how?

Umm, the point of GMail is to never delete anything anymore. I love being able to search through my years of old mail.

That was the point of gmail... five years ago. And then they added delete, because there are some message which never again need to see the light of day.

Move it to the folder Thrash

What do you use tiling for? If anything Apple is moving even farther away from tiling with the full-screen changes in Lion.

I use tiling when I want two Windows to each occupy half of the screen.

Let me ask you a question: What on God's green earth does the little green plus button do in OSX? I just pressed it three times on Chrome and here's what happened:

1) The windows was occupying the entire screen (thank you Cinch) and when I clicked the green plus, the window changed to roughly 600x800.

2) Window changed to to 600x1100.

3) Window didn't change any more.

WTF?

The green button tries to remove all scroll bars and it will also shrink the window down to where there are just no scroll bars (i.e. shrinking it one more pixel would activate the scrollbars).

It fits the window to the size of the content. Or something. Can't deny it's confusing and I never use it myself

I'll have to give cinch a try, I've just gotten used to really janky window layouts in OS X.

sizes the window to best fit the content (in theory). I think it's up to the application to specify that size though.

Works very well in Safari, but always seems to go to full screen for Firefox. Chrome's working sort of as expected here alternating between best fit and some stupid tiny size it seems to have concocted.

In old MacOS it was called "zoom", not "maximize" and the application developer was supposed to swap between the "ideal small size window" and the "ideal large size window".

In this age of cross-platform apps, and people who are used to "maximize" instead of "zoom" it is a concept that has been long forgotten

I believe click green works as size to content or size to vertical max.

shift-click green is maximize.

Coming from Windows this confused me as well. I found an article that clarifies why it behaves the way it does; it does make sense to do it this way particularly on high res screens where the empty space would be glaring.

http://www.macyourself.com/2011/02/06/why-doesnt-mac-os-xs-g...

Flexiglass is the best:

http://www.nulana.com/flexiglass

Window Magnet is really nice and complete while still sticking to Less is More. Shame it's so unknown.

Yes, you can archive Gmail messages now (and in ios5)

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