An Evil Trend

Here are two terrific utilities to make working with Windows more enjoyable.

I’m a big keyboard geek so I’m impressed by anything that lets me keep my hands off the mouse. In that vein here’s a link to WinSplit Revolution. This gives you keyboard shortcuts to tile windows on the screen, giving some tiling wm capabilities to Windows. Useful and it works well.

Even with a huge monitor on my desk I’m still lost without virtual desktops. The best solution I’ve found for Windows so far is VirtuaWin. It’s far better than the Windows PowerToy thing, and it’s been rock solid for me so far. The only limitation seems to be on the number of virtual desktops (I think they limit it to 10 or so) but I haven’t been using more than the default four.