Just try it.) Regardless, Finder doesn’t flex very far to meet the needs of power users. (Try to get to the root of a Mac’s HDD on Mountain Lion. It works fine for the limited needs of most users, and honestly it really seems that Apple is keen to largely kill off the Finder in due time. ForkLift(US$19.99) – Okay, OS X’s Finder kind of stinks.(BetterSnapTool does not interact with OS X’s full-screen model, unfortunately, but that’s a minor thing.) This is an incredibly well done app, and I would have paid far more than US$1.99 for it. BetterSnapTool (US$1.99) – Elegantly snaps windows to a quarter, half, or maximized screen on the desktop (or custom sizes/layouts, using the cursor, keyboard shortcuts, or by overloading OS X’s native window control buttons.But most are things I’ve purchased since I bought my 13″ Retina MBP. Some of these (Pages, and Office for Mac 2011) I’ve owned for a while. I’ve found quite a few tools over the past few weeks that have made working on the Mac an enjoyable experience. For this, full-screen doesn’t work, but something like Windows 7 Snap is ideal. More importantly, when working on a project, I often need two or more windows open at once. Meaning if you shift to Focus mode, gestures don’t work as well as they could, since Word is on the desktop. Word has Focus mode (its own full-screen model) and now supports OS X’s full-screen mode – but not together. It isn’t always easy, as certain apps (looking at you, Word 2011), don’t optimally use full-screen. By and large, I’ve shifted to using my Mac with most apps in full-screen, and really making the most of the gestures included in OS X 10.8. A few weeks ago I wrote about gestures on the Mac vs.
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