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I’ve been looking for a screen splitting program for quite a while but somehow this one passed my by.

There isn’t much point in the 4 million pixels in the HP LP3065 unless you can easily arrange windows on the screen. Typically when working I need to run 15 to 20 apps, and view several simultaneously – and its a real waste of pixels if you can only maximise one window.

For a while, I was forced to go back to two screen setup, with smaller monitors, just so that I could easily maximise two apps.
But now that 30 inch monster is back on my desk, ooooh yea, with WinSplit revolution will never be separated again.

It’s a great little app which gives you hotkeys you can use to reposition windows in the screen either left or right, top or botton, in the corners or maximised. You can also use it to move windows between screens. That’s just the beginning – there are plenty of other great features too. So much so that I even find it useful on the 1280×1024 monitors at work. And, did I mention, it’s free? Forget windows power toys – this has instantly become my number one favorite windows utility.

Of course the real irony is that a free utility like this can provide such a huge improvement to the ‘windows’ os, which, despite costing hundreds of dollars, doesn’t even seem to offer the basic minimum ‘window management’ features required to use the software at a professional level. The windowing in vista, if you discount the ridiculous flip 3d switching gimmick, doesn’t seem to have changed an awful lot since win 3.1, when we all used to make do with 640×480 resolutions. Both linux and the Mac offer virtual desktops these days. There was a power toy which simulated this for XP, but it seems to have diasppeared from the Vista world. If anyone finds an equivalent, please let me know!

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