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Nov 5 2009

ALAN C.  Love the app. Can't believe Apple messed this up. However, one little quirk: Adobe Illustrator CS3 seems to have difficulty with it. With Right Zoom installed and running, Illustrator begins to hang up nearly every time you select something. The beach ball appears and it only hangs for a few seconds, but it is troublesome. Otherwise, this is excellent.  
(Version 1.63)

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Nov 1 2009

FAERYJANE  I've just installed this app and it's fantastic, especially as a former Windows user!! I've been looking for something like this since I bought my Mac 2 years ago! So, thanks!

My only problem seems to be that even though it maximises on the right hand side, it always leaves about 2mm on the left hand side, even when I use it on a screen that has already been manually maximised. As it happens, this has been an issue from day dot with Safari, that whenever I open it, no matter that I have dragged it to maximise the screen in my last session, it always opens a little to the right. Any suggestions would be appreciated!  
(Version 1.63)

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Sep 14 2009

CODEMASTER  why not read a guide to find out that there ARE options available  
(Version 1.62)

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Sep 13 2009
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ORION MK. V  Works great. Easy to use with no config, but nice to have the options.  
(Version 1.62)

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Sep 13 2009

ERIC  Click on the app ... and doesn't load ... nothing happens ....

10.5.6  
(Version 1.62)

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Sep 9 2009

STAR-AFFINITY  Please help me fix the stupid zoom-button behaviour of iTunes 9 and bring support for Snow Leopard! :)

Apple – give me a break with your inconsistent zoom-button behaviour! :P  
(Version 1.61)

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Sep 13 2009

THE GRAPHIC MAC  Actually, iTunes 9 DOES make the zoom button behavior consistent. Prior to version 9, it did something no other window did.  
(Version 1.62)

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Sep 14 2009

STAR-AFFINITY  In what way is it consistent?

Or maybe it is consistent, but in a non-logical way.

At least it makes no sense to me nor to any of the others I've discussed the behavior with.  
(Version 1.62)

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Sep 9 2009

MSTIELAU  I really like this app. Here's hoping the developer updates it for Snow Leopard.  
(Version 1.61)

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Sep 5 2009

NORAA  Doesn't seem to work with Snow Leopard :(  
(Version 1.61)

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Mar 29 2009

SPRINGHEELMAC  This is one OS X enhancer I can't live without. Just one thing, how do you get to the screen to configure it? (Not to sound like a total TOOL but I can't find it.)  
(Version 1.61)

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Mar 31 2009

CODEMASTER  Hold Cmd key when you run the program  
(Version 1.61)

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Mar 28 2009

LAINSNAVI  I don't know if it's possible, but I'd like to be able to set a modifier key to enable it when clicking the green button instead of just all the time or a keyboard shortcut. For example option-click the green button to expand to fullscreen. Clicking it normally would maintain the default OS X behavior. This would make it act like how it used to be in the days of OS 9.  
(Version 1.6)

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Mar 29 2009

CODEMASTER  Yes, that's a good idea for the next update! Thanks.  
(Version 1.6)

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Mar 29 2009

CODEMASTER  it's done now  
(Version 1.6)

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Mar 22 2009

JOHN MCDONNELL  If you make one widow full screen you defeat the heart of the operating system. The heart of the operating system is drag and drop. If you have one window covering the entire screen you can not drag and drop. Let me give you an example. I was helping someone who wanted every window full screen, so we had word and safari full screen. Then the person I was helping wanted to know how save a picture from safari into word. It took us twelve steps. The person said to me "there must be a better way". I showed the person that if you had both windows side by side, with no overlap you could transfer the same picture from safari to word in three steps, using drag and drop, and save yourself nine steps. In a nutshell if you make all of your windows full screen it slows you down, lowers your productivity, and takes more time. When you click the green button the default behavior is to make the window only as big as necessary. Give the default behavior a try, you will probably find that you become more productive and have more time for the rest of your life.  
(Version 1.5)

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Mar 23 2009

CODEMASTER  So don't expand the window when you need drag and drop, is it too hard?

Or use Alt+Tab to switch to another window or F11 to show Desktop.  
(Version 1.5)

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Mar 27 2009

MLEONTI  You could use Fiwi and get the 2 windows nice and ready with 1 click.

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/29830/fiwi  
(Version 1.6)

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Mar 27 2009

ZZAMBONI  This comment makes no sense. Blasting RightZoom because of drag-and-drop?

First: having windows full screen doesn't prevent drag and drop. Try this: drag from one window, and without releasing the dragged object, switch to a different app by pressing Alt-Tab, F9 for Expose, or even Ctrl-number for switching to a different Space. Once you are on the window you want, drop the object there. Works even if all your windows are full-screen.

Second: you don't _always_ need drag and drop. When I'm writing, coding or reading, I prefer to have the corresponding window full screen, to minimize distractions and maximize my writing/reading space.  
(Version 1.6)

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Mar 27 2009

PETER BLACK  12-steps for drag and drop!?? How about drag into the expose corner for all windows, hover over the app you want, wait until the window comes to the front and the + sign appears, then drop. Simple.  
(Version 1.6)

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Mar 17 2009

ZANGIEF  Is it just a coincidence that a friend of mine made a SIMBL plugin to do this system-wide and called it WrongZoom?  
(Version 1.5)

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Mar 17 2009

MACUPDATE ADMIN  http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/18245/8ball  
(Version 1.5)

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Mar 17 2009

CODEMASTER  He did that under impression from this proggie :)

he could better write a GUI for RightZoom :)  
(Version 1.5)

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Mar 17 2009

ZANGIEF  On that note, *takes out iPhone, selects dice roller, selects coin flip* It seems to be a coincidence. :-)  
(Version 1.5)

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Mar 17 2009
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ASDFASD  I was (and I am) looking for an application like this for a long time. I was also expecting to see apple changing the green plus sign behaviour, the way it originally works seems more like a bug than anything else.

Right Zoom works perfectly if you are in a one monitor situation, unfortunately when working with a dual setup (my case) its behaviour starts to become quite annoying. Since instead maximising the window size to the size of the monitor where that window is, it simply moves the window to the first monitor and than maximizes it... So no use for me... and I am still looking for the right zoom application still.

Regarding the cmd + tab shortcut it was really a bad idea since it is the default key for a new tab in Safari, fortunately you can easy change the key or delete that option from the option .plist file inside the app, so it is really fixable.

Has I said good app for a one monitor, not that useful for multiple monitors...  
(Version 1.4)

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Mar 27 2009

CODEMASTER  Multiple monitors support is added in v.1.6, but users report it is still buggy. If you want to help us test it, you are welcome.  
(Version 1.5)

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Mar 17 2009

GABRIELU  Why in the world would you use COMMAND + T on your App? Now I can't open a new tab on my browsers. Bad idea! I just quick the program and removed it from my startup apps list.  
(Version 1.4)

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Mar 17 2009

CODEMASTER   am sorry, but you are just idiot yourself.

The key can be easily changed.  
(Version 1.4)

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Mar 29 2009

ROBOTANK  What a hilarious response from the app's developer. While I normally wouldn't suggest insulting customers, even in response to a stupid question, I think this was carried off with grace and style. +1 smile!  
(Version 1.61)

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Mar 16 2009

DANNY_2  Great tool. Predictable window behaviour with Right Zoom. I like.  
(Version 1.4)

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Mar 16 2009

ALGOS  This a really nice utility, but how am I supposed to open a new tab in Safari now that the new key command for maximizing changed to Cmd-T? Any way to set this to a different key??  
(Version 1.4)

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Mar 16 2009

ALGOS  Figured it out, sorry for being a RTFM case ;)  
(Version 1.4)

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Mar 7 2009
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ENCRO  Excellent work. This tool has standardised the behaviour to do the exact same thing in every app and has made the green zoom button useful again rather than an ignored button because you couldn't guarantee the result.

Fantastic little helper.  
(Version 1.2)

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Mar 5 2009

ARVIDTP  RightZoom seems to cause a problem with the Quicktime Plugin in Safari (probably only Safari because Safari the only browser was on my list of supported apps for RightZoom). Any action you take (button press, etc) on a quicktime plugin window causes the computer to become completely unresponsive for 3-5 seconds and the quicktime movie choppy. Additionally, any left click within the quicktime movie brings up the menu you normally get when right-clicking, instead of its normal function of stopping playback.

This is on 10.5.6 Intel, Safari 3

This behavior also seemed to have started affecting the finder, but that was solved by a reinstall of quicktime. The safari problem was not.

So I'm stopping using RightZoom for now.  
(Version 1.2)

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Mar 6 2009

CODEMASTER  From the developer:

Really there it seems to be some freezes when Quick Time movie is played inside Safari.

After investigation I have found it's Apple's bug, and it seems there's no workaround at this moment. I will send a bug report to Apple.  
(Version 1.2)

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Mar 6 2009

ARVIDTP  thanks for looking into it.  
(Version 1.2)

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Mar 3 2009

DOUGWARD  This is great, but can you extend it so it'll work for WebKit nightly builds too? I run them instead of Safari :)  
(Version 1.1)

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Mar 3 2009

RYNOKINS  To the DEVELOPER: can you please make it so the 'Command-E' can be turned on or off easily? I use Command-E regularly to eject .dmg files and discs. Thanks!! Nice app!!  
(Version 1.1)

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Mar 10 2009

CODEMASTER  done  
(Version 1.3)

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Mar 2 2009

MAKAI  "You can also use Command + E keys to maximize the current active window in most applications."

TNX for listening!! ;-) ;-)

However, Cmd-e may conflict with Finder's "Eject" command, as it apparently does with Safari's "Use selection for Find". No showstopper for me, though. TNX again!!  
(Version 1.1)

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Mar 2 2009

ARVIDTP  This is great on a laptop! However I'd ideally like to have the Mac OS 9 solution: Option-Click to force the window to enlarge to fill the whole screen, but auto-size as OS X normally does otherwise.  
(Version 1.1)

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Mar 10 2009

STAR-AFFINITY  Agreed on that!  
(Version 1.3)

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Mar 2 2009
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MAJOR MAUSER  This is great.... I can't see why Apple just does not use the windows modifier for controlling window resizing. Right Zoom brings it to us now. Thanks!  
(Version 1.1)

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Mar 2 2009

GORDON142  While I understand people having different preferences on this, the Mac way of handling windows does have its own advantages. For example, on a large wide-screen monitor, there is little point in having the browser occupy the entire screen, it either does nothing since the web page dimensions are hard-coded or it strings out text and makes it hard to follow a line. On the other hand, having windows intelligently resize to fit the current content is very useful. Full-screen zooming is not a one-size-fits-all solution.  
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Mar 1 2009
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ETARTAKOFF  I love this, why didn't I think of it, not that I could write code or anything, but it is just what I always wanted and didn't even know it  
(Version 1.0)

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Mar 1 2009
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MR-SEXY  so far it's simply what i've always wanted..  
(Version 1.0)

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Mar 1 2009

LARSEN2K4  Awesome! Just does what it's meant to do :)  
(Version 1.0)

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Mar 1 2009
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MACLOVER1.1  Some people make sense !!! Thanks for this utility :-)  
(Version 1.0)

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Mar 1 2009

MAKAI  Excellent idea; congrats!

Does what it says.

As a next, could the same 'full zoom' behaviour get connected to the Zoom command in the Windows menu? This way, it could be evoked by a keyboard shortcut.

Again, thank you for leveraging this annoyance!  
(Version 1.0)

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Nov 2 2009

JUSTIN SHULMAN  how do you open the options menu on right zoom help  
(Version 1.63)

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