Moom - finally a use for the Mac's Green Button

Have you ever noticed that little green button at the top left of all of your Mac's windows? I'm sure you have but now how many times have you clicked it, hoping it does something useful only to find that it's not always that helpful? r for the people switching over from Windows and thinking that it's a fullscreen button only to scratch their heads in puzzlement.

The purpose of the green button is resize to content, that is, it should adjust the size of the window to fit whatever the window is trying to display. While in theory this sounds great, in practise it doesn't always work out.

The Green button - MIA?

A couple of days ago I discovered Moom, its available from the companies Web site and from the AppStore and it's an application that finally makes the green button useful.

What does it do? Well if you hover your mouse over the green button for a second, a small row of icons pop out, clicking on one of those icons causes the window to do different things, such as go fullscreen, fit to the left half of the screen, fit to the right half and so on. 

Moom - strange name but very useful

The preferences allow you to set keyboard shortcuts for this if you'd prefer to use the keyboard or you can create your own customised setting and have windows go to a certain section of the screen and be a certain size. 

The application itself can run in the menubar, the dock or faceless in which case you get to the settings by double-clicking the application in your applications folder. All in all, it's a very useful application that integrates into the Finder seemlessly and soon you won't know how you lived without it. Definitely worth checking out.