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    Split screen on Mac

    I know this is probably a simple thing and I 'think' I've done it before but how the hell do you do it?

    I want to have two applications open side by side on the screen, instead of toggling between, is there a simple shortcut?


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    Re: Split screen on Mac

    F10 or F9, depending what you want to toggle between

    I think thats what you need

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    Re: Split screen on Mac

    Quote Originally Posted by foxylady View Post
    F10 or F9, depending what you want to toggle between

    I think thats what you need

    Foxy
    I don't want to toggle, I need to be able to see both applications side by side..
    I'm sure I've done it before by accident but I just can't remember how

    If I try to make the screen smaller, to fit them next to each other by using the bottom right corner. I loose some of the page
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    Re: Split screen on Mac

    well F9 does put the screens you have open next to each other but you can't work on them at the same time i.e. when you go to work on one it opens fully...
    If you made them smaller you could always zoom out to ensure you saw the whole screen. (just to clarify as I just experimented, you have to change the size before you shrink the sceen, for some reason once the screen is smaller you can't change the size - its a two finger job in SL)

    Am unsure what you want to be able to do by having them next to each other : watch two different movie clips alongside one another ? or just monitor two facebook pages ? or ?

    What operating system ? leopard or SL
    Last edited by foxylady; 18th-January-2010 at 01:43 PM.

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    Re: Split screen on Mac

    The way that I usually do it is to minimise the image with the middle icon at the op right corner of your screen.Then call up the other page that you want and do the same to that one.I believe you can also make the page evn smaller by hovering your mouse over the corner of the page.

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    Re: Split screen on Mac

    Also on SL there is something called "spaces" which I haven't enabled, but ostensibly you can do the thing you want to with it.

    i am sure the apple geeks will come on and shoot me down any moment now, but I had a search around and can't find any other solution to what you want...

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    Re: Split screen on Mac

    I use a utility called Cinch (you can get it from this website: http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/cinch/ )

    It allows you to drag any window to any side of your screen and it automatically resizes it to fill that half of the screen (or the full screen if you drag it to the top). It goes back to previous size when you drag it away from the side again.
    It's pretty nifty.

    You can download a trial version, and if you like it, the shareware is only $7 so very affordable...
    Franck.

    There's an A.P.P. for that!

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    Re: Split screen on Mac

    Quote Originally Posted by foxylady View Post
    Am unsure what you want to be able to do by having them next to each other
    Thanks for trying to help me
    There's lots of times I'd find it useful, one example being, when I want to select and drag photo's into the movie maker, or compare two things side by side, without having to flip back and forwards.

    Quote Originally Posted by Franck View Post
    I use a utility called Cinch
    I've just D/L it, which was a cinch but sadly, it doesn't work on PS or iMovie but it works great for moving files about
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    Re: Split screen on Mac

    E-mail Mas, Lory, he's bound to have something useful.
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    Re: Split screen on Mac

    Quote Originally Posted by Tiggerbabe View Post
    E-mail Mas, Lory, he's bound to have something useful.
    Good thinking!
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    Re: Split screen on Mac

    What i'd really like is two screens but that's just greedy isn't it
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    Re: Split screen on Mac

    Quote Originally Posted by Lory View Post
    What i'd really like is two screens but that's just greedy isn't it
    No - it's just sensible. Three would be greedy

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    Re: Split screen on Mac

    Quote Originally Posted by straycat View Post
    No - it's just sensible. Three would be greedy
    I like you

    Right, for anyone else who might be interested...I've 'sort of' found what I want, although it makes each screen much smaller than I'd really like

    Under system preferences.. Exposé & Spaces, choose Spaces and enable, then you can choose from the +- boxes how many rows/columns you want
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    Re: Split screen on Mac

    Two screens. If you're good to yourself make the second a 21" Cintiq. That way editing photos is even easier.

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