Divvy has a demo so you can try it for free. I haven’t tried it yet simply because I have SizeUp working and already paid for it, but from what I’ve heard Divvy takes it to the next level by adding a slick graphical interface in addition to keyboard shortcuts, as well as letting you create infinite different resizes, whereas SizeUp limits you to preset ones. I recommend it whole-heartedly for those among us with big screens and small patience for window management.ĮDIT (Jan 24, 2012): Another commercial solution to this problem that has appeared is Divvy. It is excellent and elegant and solves both the problems I had and ones I didn’t realize I had until they were solved. I have since tried the 13$ SizeUp application recommended by Martin Reisch in the comments. The Minimize item has the easy-to-use keyboard shortcut CMD+, while the Zoom item has no shortcut and no hint at how to get one.ĮDIT (Sep 27, 2010): Based on my realizations about Firefox and NetBeans detailed below I now think this method is pretty insufficient for me and probably lots of other people.

In pretty much every application the ‘Window’ menu item has Minimize (shunt to dock) and “Zoom” which resizes the window and has the same effect as the green “+” jewel in the window header. I’ve been dreaming for a long time of a system-wide keyboard shortcut to maximize/resize the current window in OSX (windows-style, where the window fills the screen or not, rather than going to the dock).