WindowShade

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Version: 4.1.2 || Release Date: 2007-03-12 || License: Shareware ($10.00 US) Developer: Unsanity

WindowShade X provides an exciting and useful way of organizing your work on Mac OS X. With this handy tool, you can assign the following actions to the minimize button and a double-click on the window title:

Minimize the window to the Dock, like always;
"Windowshade" the window into a tiny strip to quickly peek below or get it out of the way;
Minimize-In-Place the window so it becomes really small so you can move it out of the way yet still see what is going on;
Make the window transparent so you can continue working in it while seeing things under it;
Hide the application quickly;

Tags: Utility , System , Window

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2 Opinions:

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by zohar, 2008-08-19

Is there anything similar for Leopard?

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by groxx, 2006-10-01 (score: 1)

Faaantastic. The minimize-in-place is one of the most-used key commands on my laptop. Great for when you want to shrink a program, but still be updated when it changes. I can windowshade things (shows titlebar only), and the transparent-window works great (imagine: watching a movie while using iChat/Adium/whatever RIGHT OVER THE MOVIE without interrupting anything!). Also nice for checking/comparing what's behind the current window.

Bought it a while ago, easily worth the $10. The only downside is that those roll-out panes (usually for preferences) aren't effected, though this could almost be viewed as useful in some apps.