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Fiwi Improves Finder Window Management
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tekelenb (apparently)
- 02:57am Dec 19, 2008 PSTvia email12/18/08 (Charles Maurer) wrote at <
http://db.tidbits.com/article/9955?rss>:
> Whenever I work in Finder, I want two windows open side-by-side, nearly
> filling the screen. Although it's not hard to set this up, it takes some
> fiddling and the windows do not stay as I want them for long. I have always
> wanted a button that would arrange them for me with one click. Mario Leonti
> is now offering this button in the form of $0.99 AppleScript-based
> application called Fiwi. [...]
FWIW, my freeware AS applet "Clone" does just that and has been available for
almost 6 years: <
http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/software/>.
--
Sander Tekelenburg, <
http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/>
Michael Logue
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Dec 20, 2008 8:23 am
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Re: Fiwi Improves Finder Window Management
Path Finder version 5 offers a side by side windows view.
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Technophobic_Tom (apparently)
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Dec 20, 2008 10:27 am
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tekelenb (apparently)
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Dec 21, 2008 1:32 pm
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Re: Fiwi Improves Finder Window Management
At 10:27 -0800 UTC, on 2008-12-20, Technophobic_Tom  comcast.net wrote:
> On 12/20/08, Sander Tekelenburg wrote:
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>>...my freeware AS applet "Clone" [creates a clone of the current
>>Finder window next to, or below it. Useful when you need to copy
>>or move files. It] has been available for almost 6 years:
>><< http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/software/> http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/software/>.
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> Will it work under Tiger or Leopard?
Would it hurt you to try? It serves me fine under Tiger. It's open source, so
feel free to change it for Leopard if needed -- or to otherwise improve it to
your liking.
--
Sander Tekelenburg, < http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/>
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Neil Laubenthal
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Dec 22, 2008 11:56 am
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Re: Fiwi Improves Finder Window Management
I opened and resaved it as an application bundle instead of a script
and it works fine for me under 10.5.6. I can't remember the exact
reason; but IIRC there's supposedly an advantage to saving it as an
application bundle instead.
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tekelenb (apparently)
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Dec 23, 2008 2:16 am
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Re: Fiwi Improves Finder Window Management
At 11:56 -0800 UTC, on 2008-12-22, Neil Laubenthal wrote:
> I opened and resaved it as an application bundle instead of a script
> and it works fine for me under 10.5.6. I can't remember the exact
> reason; but IIRC there's supposedly an advantage to saving it as an
> application bundle instead.
True. Application bundles are like universal binaries: native on Intel; no
Rosetta. So, in theory at least, as a bundle it should be faster on Intel
Macs.
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Sander Tekelenburg, < http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/>
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