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I recently bought a Mac Mini with OS X Snow Leopard, and one of the annoyances I found is there isn’t a way to get the pointer to “Snap To” open dialog boxes like in Windows. Today we take a look at a shareware utility that will add that functionality to OS X.

Snap To in Windows

1. In Windows you can go into Control Panel and click on Mouse. Then in Mouse Properties under the Pointer Options tab, check Automatically move pointer to the default button in a dialog box.

Mar 16, 2012 Grid is a free Mac app that lets you use keyboard shortcuts to snap a window to one of four screen quadrants. Unlike Divvy, it doesn’t let you record shortcuts or divide the screen into custom parts for window resizing. It does, however, let you snap.

2. The convenience of this is when you’re performing a function and a dialog appears, you don’t need to drag the pointer across the screen to click on it – the mouse automatically jumps to the box. This is a great time saving feature so you can be more productive…especially if you have multiple monitors.

LazyMouse for OS X

1. Unfortunately the option isn’t available in OS X by default. But with the help of the shareware utility Lazy Mouse, that functionality can easily be added. Download Lazy Mouse and double-click the LazyMouse icon to install it.

2. Go through the installer like normal and make the selections you want. Like here you’ll need to choose to install for all users or not.

3. When installation is complete, make sure to check Whenever a new window appears, snap the cursor to it.

4. You’ll get a message letting you know that Access for Assistive Devices needs to be turned on for LazyMouse to work. Click the button to open the Universal Access Preferences Pane.

5. Universal Access opens and at the bottom check Enable access for assistive devices…then close out of the screen.

6. Now open System Preferences…

7. In System Preferences you’ll see LazyMouse listed under the Other section.

8. Click on the icon to open the LazyMouse options where you can customize it to act how you want. LazyMouse is shareware, so there will be a Please Register LazyMouse nag message while you’re using it.

9.If you want to get rid of the nag message, you can purchase a license for $9.95. But if you can deal with it, you can continue to use it. If you like LazyMouse though, you might want to slap down 10 bucks for it.

The “Snap To” feature may seem like a minor setting, but it’s one of the first things I set up when rebuilding a Windows machine…it saves a lot of time.

If you’re moving from a Windows world to a Mac environment…this handy utility will bring a familiar Windows feature to OS X.

Snap is a feature that debuted in Windows 7 at its release in 2009. It allows users to drag windows to the edges of their computer screen to quickly snap them into a specific size. If you drag the window to the top, it maximizes the window. If you drag it to the left or right, it fills that half of the display. Then you can adjust them to your liking from there too.

Despite being such a popular feature for several years, OS X only recently caught on to this useful organizational tool in El Capitan. There’s a built-in feature that works similarly to Snap hidden at the top of every OS X window. Still, the way it functions is a bit different from Windows. For more power and control over your window sizes and placement, we’ll also have to turn to a third-party app.

Mac’s Split View

OS X El Capitan (and presumably future versions of OS X to come) has a feature called Split View built in that mimics Snap for Windows, though it doesn’t work for every application.

Split View is hidden behind the green full-screen button at the top left of every window. All you need to do is press and hold this green button. You’ll see that the current app window will automatically resize to take up the left portion on your screen.

Over on the right, an array of windows you have open that are compatible with Split View will appear so you can pick one to fill in the other side.

Tip: Not all applications will work with every Split View because some require more than half of the screen. If this is the case, windows you have open will sit as thumbnails at the bottom with the message “Not available in this Split View.”

Just click a compatible window to fill your display with two applications simultaneously. You can even drag the slider in the middle to adjust the sizes of each one.

Tip: You can also launch Split View by four-finger swiping up on your touchpad to open Mission Control. Drag one window up into the Spaces toolbar, then drag another window on top of that to merge them.

More Advanced Window Management with Magnet

If you really want to go all out with your window management on a Mac, try out Magnet. It’s currently on sale for $0.99 in the Mac App Store so there’s no better time to get it. Plus it does everything Windows Snap can do and more.

At its core, all Magnet really does is enable windows to intelligently resize at your comment. In addition to having them fill up half the screen like Split View already does, you can fill four corners with four different windows, have three windows with one at the top and two at the bottom, one on the left and two on the right… the possibilities are extensive.

When you first launch Magnet, be sure to grant permissions in System Preferences as it prompts you to do. Once that’s complete, you have one of two options. You can drag a window to the corner or side you want, or use my own preferred method which is the menu bar icon. Magnet’s menu bar icon lists all the sizing shortcuts and even some extras like centering a window. Just click a window, click the icon and choose its position.

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Split View and Magnet combined, not only can you mimic Snap, you can go above and beyond what Windows can do.

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