Zooom - 2.3.0

It has been extremely frustrating, but now I'm happy. Like Path Finder, Default Folder, Launchbar etc., Zooom had become one of those essential applications for me. Now having to find that little tiny corner or a border that allows resizing or movement seems like a no-brainer. Or course it violates Apples, "can't do it if it requires two hands and remembering a key sequence regardless of how practical it is," policy.

Well my problem has been that I live in MS Office. Probably about 40-50% of what I do on a computer is in Office. And Zooom, despite all the promises did not work in Office! Until now.

No promises in the release. It just works. Powerpoint and Excel are smooth. There's hesitation and hitches in Word, but it will work.

And, it's cheap.

I'm happy!!

Also like Zooom very much. How did I live w/o it? (chorusing other feedback). Valuable the same way SideTrack is. Using OS X 10.5.1 on a PowerBook.

Zooom's way of using more of a gestural motion for resizing & moving windows w/o looking for a specific spot on a window w/ a mouse/trackpad will quickly pay for Zooom. Why? Because of less repetitive motion wear & tear on my body.

See freeware, WindowDragon, mentioned as an alternative. However I'm leery of haxies such as Unsanity's APE, which is required; haxies have sometimes created anomalies in my OS.

xPad: I can't resize docs by dragging the mouse inside the window; still have to grab the window's corner.

Oxford American Dictionary widget: Zooom isn't able to resize. Have to drag the corner of widget.

Works well w/ TextEdit, Finder, Safari, Firefox & VLC.

Safari: One of Zooom's default keyboard cmd, Cmd + Shift, interferes w/ Safari's keyboard command to open a link in new tab. So I had to change Zooom's default Move cmd in Prefs.

Photoshop CS: Can move images around w/ Zooom but when resizing window of opened image, window grows larger but image does not increase in size. Didn't take time to check if Zooom's keyboard resize cmd mirrored one of Photoshop's bazillion keyboard commands?

I like, and paid for, this product but cannot use it with PathFinder (under Tiger and Leopard). Still get PF crashes whenever I click on the search window when Zooom is active. Neither developer can seem to figure it out. Not a travesty for sure but I wish I could get this resolved. If anyone else had this issue and solved it, feel free to reply.

thanks!

This is a cool application. Works as described. Includes a very quick tutorial which is helpful (although should tell people to "Activate" Zooom first!).

Feature request - in addition to the two primary modes, I would like two more "Modes". 1) a "Windowshade" type mode where the window closes to a single title bar, and 2) a mode where ALL the open windows arrange to the "Magnetic Grid" and resize. and 3) a mode where the window closes and "Falls" down to the "Dock" bar.

Cool App!

Yet another piece of software that I didn’t know I couldn’t live without until I used it. I always have multiple windows open and am moving and resizing frequently. I didn’t realize what a pain it was to have to find the top (to move) and the corner (to resize) each time until I didn’t have to do it anymore!

I actually started with MondoMouse because I saw it in a Versiontracker email; but MondoMouse didn’t work for some of my software that I use frequently, like Appleworks and iTunes. It also gave me problems with Firefox, working sometimes and not others, which proved to be annoying when working quickly, with fingers flying.

I searched and found Zooom and was especially pleased, not only because it worked consistently with Firefox, Appleworks, and iTunes, but also because it’s $5.00 cheaper than MondoMouse! There are also a few more bells and whistles in Zooom, and the mouse visuals are more subtle and less obtrusive. I can hardly ask for more.