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You may be thinking to yourself, “What in the world is he babbling about? This isn’t the 80s anymore. No one says ‘To the max!’” , and you would be right. No one says that anymore. But that’s not important. What IS important is MaxTo which is one of the coolest little widgets I’ve run into recently.
“What does it do?” you might ask? Another excellent question! What MaxTo does is subdivide your monitor or monitors into regions which applications then use as their boundaries when being maximized. As an example I could split my primary monitor into 3 regions, two small squares and one larger rectangle. I could then drop my email app into one of the small squares, instant messaging into another, and keep my web browser in the rectangle. Now whenever I hit “Maximize” the window will only expand to fill it’s designated region. MaxTo is an excellent way to maximize your screen real estate and keep your windows organized. So far the only downside I can find is that it doesn’t appear to like setups with more than 2 monitors. But it’s still being rapidly improved so I expect that be remedied in the future.
*UPDATE* The issue with more than 2 monitors was caused by an old version of .NET being installed on my system. Newest .NET version solved the issue. All three monitors humming happily along.
Give it a spin and see what you think.