{"id":4812,"date":"2012-05-08T14:02:19","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T18:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=4812"},"modified":"2024-06-11T18:27:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T22:27:08","slug":"moom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/08\/moom\/","title":{"rendered":"Moom"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’d long pigeonholed Moom<\/a> as a utility for moving and zooming windows, for people who didn’t want to do so by clicking and dragging. It sounded cool enough, but not particularly useful for me. I tend to keep my windows in fixed locations and don’t need or want to reshape them into different grids.<\/p>\n

Then I happened to see a full-page ad in the paper edition of Macworld<\/em> highlighting the “Save Window Layout Snapshot” feature, which I didn’t know about. I’d tried a couple utilities<\/a> to do this years ago, but was never that happy with them. And during the Mini DisplayPort adapter fiasco<\/a> I’d written an AppleScript to restore my hard-coded window positions. However, Moom is easier and better, so I’ve switched. Whenever my windows get messed up—from resetting the display adapter, a kernel panic<\/a>, or switching from one display to two (or vice-versa)—it quickly fixes the positions of all my windows.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’d long pigeonholed Moom as a utility for moving and zooming windows, for people who didn’t want to do so by clicking and dragging. It sounded cool enough, but not particularly useful for me. I tend to keep my windows in fixed locations and don’t need or want to reshape them into different grids. Then […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-06-11T22:27:12Z","apple_news_api_id":"1ce441d1-6723-4970-aba5-29641795092c","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-06-11T22:27:12Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AHORB0WcjSXCrpSlkF5UJLA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30,32,155],"class_list":["post-4812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-moom"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4812"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4816,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4812\/revisions\/4816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}