Review: Easy-to-use window manager Mosaico makes sense of your desktop

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If your desktop deteriorates into a morass of windows, look to Mosaico to help you tile them neatly.  You can use this $10 window manager (14-day free trial) to create different desktop snapshots for various situations.

The simple interface revolves around taking snapshots and restoring them.

Once you're happy with the way your windows are laid out, click the snapshot button to save the arrangement. You can save up to eight different desktop snapshots, and restore them easily from the program's snapshot browser.

When restoring a snapshot, Mosiaco will open relevant programs if closed, and will minimize others that are not part of the snapshot. It cannot, however, go as far as opening specific documents.

Snapshots aside, Mosaico also comes with an enhanced window-snapping feature which can be accessed by clicking the arrows on the program's interface, or by dragging windows around. The latter can be achieved by enabling the "Arrange manually" option in the toolbar, or by pressing the "M" key. Mosaico supports multiple monitors well, and features a built-in button for moving windows between monitors.

Position previews make it easy to drag windows to an exact position on the screen.

Mosaico's main weakness is its current state of Windows 8 compatibility. Although the program runs fine on Windows 8, there are some small quirks such as random display issues, inability to set custom keyboard shortcuts, etc. These issues do not occur on every Windows 8 system, and will be fixed in the program's next update.

Note: The Download button will download the software to your system.

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Do not panic! But brings a sense of urgency to work

An employee, Steven Thomas (no relation, honest), recently his opinion assigned to here after taking a workshop at Microsoft keep projects to promote. I wanted to with his permission that pass "good parts" of the workshop on some ideas in John Kotter to expand book A sense of urgency. Take it way, Steven:

To bring the outside inside: too much leads internal focus to stagnation and complacency to the things happen, you sometimes need external point of view.

Act with urgency every day: Urgency must not mean scurrying in panic - it can also mean rationalization, what you do and respect people's time, for people on results and success can focus.

· Appeal to emotions, not only logic - use stories, to persuade them to justify data. Think of a good brown bag talk – what is engaged with a project?

· Get the stories from customers, the business as usual challenge - front line people have access to a gold mine. Customer feedback and community sites are all part of our work, and they all have stories to tell.

· Call data from competitive reviews and industry metrics that show our weaknesses-of which prevent you, but not make them feel, condemned to failure. A look at our website page metrics and trends is benign but there are still by our data on our competitor data compare to have more value.

-Identify and remove non-productive activities - to those meetings where you regularly not action points, and they would like to get your calendar to stop.

· Provide short-term objectives - what can I do next week?

· Is someone else created to optimize the resources delegate - better, in order to achieve this?

· Ask for short-term measures of employees - what you can do next week? Make sure that your sessions are non-productive for others not.

Thanks to Steven. Do you have a great tactic to make the day productive? Comment removed.

--Doug Thomas

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