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Wednesday
Jul072010

Split Your Screen in OSX

I have been away from OSX for a long time now. Since my company bought me a MacBookPro recently I had to move back in and get used to the environment again. I have to admit that one of the first things I missed was AeroSnap from Windows 7. I started immediately to look for tools that would replicate some of the features. I came across two options and started using them both for testing.

![Screen Shot Divvy](/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/screen_shot_divvy.png)


[Divvy](http://www.mizage.com/divvy/) - Divvy was one of the first tools I found. Divvy is great as it gives you the option of splitting windows onto multiple parts of your screen. It has a very nice interface and allows custom keyboard shortcuts. Divvy is also shareware so it is not free.
![Screen Shot 2010 07 07 at 1.20.33 am](/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/screen_shot_2010_07_07_at_12033_am.png)


[Shiftit](http://code.google.com/p/shiftit/) - Shiftit is a good tool that offers the basic functionality with a minimal user interface and less options. It does come with keyboard shortcuts already configured and this would be an extra step on divvy. Shiftit is free.

I would recommend that you try them both and decide which you like better, but either way you will be more productive.

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