Filed under: Utilities, Macintosh, Productivity
TwoUp brings splitscreen to OS X
by Jay Hathaway May 4th 2009 at 9:00AM
If you're used to using another operating system and you've switched to Mac, you might have noticed that there's no easy way to tell an OS X window to take up exactly half of your screen. TwoUp does exactly that, using a menubar icon or some easy key combinations. It has both horizontal and vertical modes, so you can divide your screen whichever way you want.TwoUp is free, but it has some limitations. It only works on your primary monitor, and it can only do half-screen windows. The developers have another product called SizeUp, which is basically the paid version of TwoUp, and it includes perks like multiple monitor support, full screen and quarter-screen mode, and centering.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
