Just discovered this great software called Zooom, for Mac (it’s $20).

If you don’t use software like this and you’re mouse-click crazy (I’m looking at you Neha), you really should. You can basically hold down a hotkey and click anywhere in a window to drag&move that window, so you don’t have to click on the titlebar at the top. Works with resizing, too. This feature really should be in all operating systems (it is in Gnome & KDE). Clicking those tiny areas to resize or move a window is terrible usability, and it gives me serious RSI — it makes me want to drive my car into the lake!

If you’ve ever used Gnome’s alt+click dragging function, this is a bit better, because you don’t actually have to click. There’s an option to just hold down the hotkey and move your mouse. Very elegant.

There are apps like this for mac (MondoMouse (non-free) and WindowDragon (free)), but neither work as well as Zooom does, and when you’re dragging windows around all the time, the smallest bugs will drive you insane. Zooom can resize Firefox smoothly, and it works with Textmate, neither of which is true for MondoMouse or WindowDragon.

Finally a key window management feature done properly in OSX.