Just wanted to giver you all a heads up on two pieces of software that I came across recently: Cinch and Divvy.
Divvy · Window management at its finest.
Divvy is an entirely new way of managing your workspace. It allows you to quickly and efficiently “divvy up” your screen into exact portions.
With Divvy, it is as simple as calling up the interface, clicking and dragging. When you let go, your window will be resized and moved to the relative position on the screen. If that seems like too much work, you can go ahead and create as many different shortcuts as you’d like that resize and move your windows in exactly the same way.
Divvy is designed to be quick, simple and elegant. We want it to stay out of your way as much as possible while providing the most powerful window management available today.
Cinch gives you simple, mouse-driven window management by defining the left, right, and top edges of your screen as ‘hot zones’. Drag a window until the mouse cursor enters one of these zones then drop the window to have it cinch into place. Cinching to the left or right edges of the screen will resize the window to fill exactly half the screen, allowing you to easily compare two windows side-by-side (splitscreen). Cinching to the top edge of the screen will resize the window to fill the entire screen (fullscreen). Dragging a window away from its cinched position will restore the window to its original size.
I use Cinch, as it is simple and suites my needs perfectly. If you needa bit more control or functionality, Divvy might be for you.
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I like the article, but another alternative is Size Up, from the makers of Cinch. It’s probably the most granular window size manager on Mac OS X, IMO.
http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/