I consider myself a desktop fanatic when it comes to a clean desktop — I don’t like icons on my desktop and I like my windows to be neatly arranged. So when someone resizes or moves one of my windows, I wince at the thought of knowing I’m going to have to fix it later.

Sure, I can right-click on the task bar and select “Show Windows Side by Side” (in Vista) or “Tile Windows Vertically” (in XP) to restore some things like my Windows Explorer, but for other things like my Notepad or Calculator, which I like in the corner, it’s a manual process to drag it over, and yes for me, I need to be precise to 1 pixel.

Years ago, when I switched over to Linux and used Gnome, I was amazed at how your windows automatically “snapped” to the screen edge or to other windows. So for the times that I need to be in Windows, I really miss that feature. Well, thanks to a little utility called allSnap (v. 1.33), I can make Windows feel more like Linux.
allSnap is a small system tray app that makes all top level windows automatically align like they do in programs such as Winamp or Photoshop.

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But another positive side-effect I found from this utility was for the GIMP. If you’ve ever used the GIMP, you know what I’m talking about — everyone has complained about it’s multi-window interface being too cluttered. Well, with allSnap, you can easily snap the windows so they’re nice and neat then in the GIMP’s Preferences, save the window positions.

It’s a small thing, but every little bit makes a difference.