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One of the most popular categories of Gems is utilities that make it easier, faster, or simply more convenient to arrange windows on your screen—for example, to line up two Finder windows for easier file management, or to stick a Web browser and a text editor side-by-side to preview some Web code. I’ve covered a slew of these utilities over the years, including Cinch, TwoUp and SizeUp, MercuryMover, Zooom, MondoMouse, and Fiwi. But the past few months have seen a veritable glut of new window-management software. I’ll be taking a look at the best of these utilities over the next few weeks; today I start with ManyTricks’ Moom (Mac App Store link).

Like many similar utilities, Moom’s goal is to make it easier to put windows in commonly used configurations—specifically, taking up exactly half or a quarter of the screen, or zoomed to fill the entire screen. But Moom’s standout feature is that it uses Mac OS X’s own interface for zooming windows: the green “zoom” button in the upper-left corner of every window.

Move the mouse cursor over this little green circle, and after a short delay—1/10 of a second by default, but you can make the delay shorter or longer—a small row of iconic buttons appears, each illustrating one of Moom’s standard window layouts: full-screen, or filling exactly half of the screen on the left, right, top, or bottom. Click the button with the desired window layout and, like magic, the window is moved and resized appropriately. If only the zoom button really worked this way.

But there are a couple not-so-obvious options here, as well. Click-drag one of Moom’s half-screen buttons, and its icon changes ever so slightly to indicate that you can reposition the window to fill a quarter of the screen. You can choose either of the corners contained in a button’s half of the screen. So, for example, the “top half” button gives you options to put the window in the top-left or top-right corner.

Similarly, if you’ve got multiple displays, click-dragging a button towards a different display gives you the option of zooming the current window to a half- or quarter-screen size and a particular screen location, but on the other display.

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If you’ve previously used Moom to zoom a window, that window’s Moom pop-up panel is slightly different. The icon indicating the current window position is highlighted, and a new Undo (left-facing arrow) button appears. Click this button, and Moom restores the window to its original location and dimensions. Unfortunately, if you manually move or resize a window after using Moom to zoom it, Moom won’t be able to restore it to its original location. This limitation can be frustrating if you accidentally click the standard zoom button instead of hovering over it—do that, and Moom forgets the original position. It would be great if Moom offered an option to disable the standard zoom functionality completely, especially considering that you’re unlikely to use that button if Moom is running.

But what about those of us who prefer to use the keyboard whenever possible? Moom provides keyboard controls, as well. In fact, you get a couple additional options when using the keyboard. Press Moom’s keyboard shortcut, which you define, and a Moom overlay (bezel) appears on your screen. Using the arrow keys—alone or modified with Command, Option, or Control—you can then perform a number of actions: move the current window, at its current size, in 50-pixel increments (hold Shift to move in 1-pixel increments); move the window to another display; or resize the window to fill half of the current screen—up arrow for the top half, left arrow for the left side, and so on.

Once you’ve used Moom to make a window fill half the screen, you can continue to use the arrow keys to “shrink down” the window to fill just a quarter. For example, if you press the down-arrow key to make a window fill the bottom half of the screen, you can then immediately press the left-arrow key to shrink that window to fill just the lower-left quarter.

In addition, you can configure the Return, Space, and Tab keys to perform actions whenever the Moom overlay is displayed. The options for each include zooming the current window to fill the screen; moving the window, at its current size, to the center of its current display; or reverting the window to its original size and location.

While Moom doesn’t offer as many options for keyboard control of windows as MercuryMover, which also lets you configure presets for specific locations and sizes, Mercury Mover doesn’t offer Moom’s half-screen features. And overall, Moom’s keyboard features work well, although it takes some trial and error to get the hang of switching between half-screen and quarter-screen sizes.

If you prefer to use only one of Moom’s control methods—mouse or keyboard—you can disable the other completely. You can also choose to run Moom as a traditional application (its icon appears in the Dock and it has traditional menu-bar menus); a menu-bar utility (you access settings via a systemwide menu); or a faceless application (you access settings by double-clicking the Moom application icon in the Finder).

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Moom’s biggest limitation is inherent in its design: In order to keep it dead-simple to use, Many Tricks has restricted Moom to resizing and moving windows to half or a quarter of the screen. But if those windows positions are enough for you, Moom is mighty appealing.

[If you’d like to try Moom before purchasing it, ManyTricks offers a trial version for download from the company’s Website.]

(Disclosure: Former Macworld editor Rob Griffiths is now an employee of Many Tricks, the developer of Moom.)

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This calendar shows the Moon Phase for every day in the current month of April 2021. The first day starts with a phase that is illuminated. Explore this April Moon Phase Calendar by clicking on each day to see detailed information on that days phase. Also see more information about the Full Moon and New Moon in April 2021 including local viewing times.

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Understanding Moon Phases

Let’s start with some interesting facts. It takes the Moon 29.53 days to orbit completely around the Earth in a full lunar cycle. During this time, the Moon will go through each phase. Since the Moon’s orbital journey takes a little less than a full month, when you click on future dates you’ll notice that–depending on the exact number of days in that month–the Full Moon occurs a day or two earlier each month.

It’s the Moon’s journey as it orbits around Earth that creates the predictable dance between light and shadow. And while the changes may seem slow, on any given day the amount of Moon illuminated by the Sun can vary by as much as 10-percent. The illustration above shows the range of illumination for today - April 21, 2021. The illustration is set to your computer’s clock and therefore gives you an accurate reading for your own particular time zone.

The four main Moon phases in order are the New Moon, First Quarter Moon, Full Moon and Last Quarter Moon. These phases occur at very specific times and are measured by both the Moon’s luminosity and how far along the Moon is in its orbit around Earth.
The New Moon Phase occurs when the Moon is completely dark with zero-percent luminosity, while the Full Moon Phase is completely bright with 100-percent luminosity. The First and Last Quarter phases happen when the Moon is exactly half illuminated, with 50-percent luminosity. When people say “today is a Full Moon” it’s important to remember that doesn’t mean the Moon is full all day long, only that the Full Moon Phase occurs on this day. In reality, the exact moment of the Full Moon can be timed to the second. To learn more about the exact time of the Full Moon and the current Full Moon info, check out these Current Full Moon times.
The remaining four Moon phases occur at halfway points between the main phases. Unlike the main phases, these minor phases don’t happen at a specific time or luminosity, rather they describe the Moon’s phase for the entire time period between each main phase. These interim phases are Waxing Crescent Moon, Waxing Gibbous Moon, Waning Gibbous Moon and Waning Crescent Moon. The illustration below shows all eight main and minor Moon phases and where they occur in the lunar cycle.

Moon Phases In History

Imagine a Neanderthal peering out of his cave some dark summer night as the Full Moon rises above the horizon. Nothing on Earth was quite like this strange brilliant object arcing through the night sky. What did he think it was? It’s not hard to imagine how the Moon became the source of many religions, myths and legends throughout the ages.
The Greeks were among the first to take a scientific look at the Moon and her phases. Around 500 BC Greek philosopher and astronomer Pythagoras carefully observed the narrow boundary line—the terminator—between the dark and light hemispheres of the Moon. Based on how the terminator curved across the surface of the Moon, he correctly surmised the Moon must be a sphere.
A few centuries later, around 350 BC, Aristotle took Pythagoras observations even further. By observing the shadow of the Earth across the face of the Moon during a lunar eclipse, Aristotle reckoned that the Earth was also a sphere. He reasoned, incorrectly however, that the Earth was fixed in space and that the Moon, Sun and Stars revolved around it. He also believed the Moon was a translucent sphere that traveled in a perfect orbit around Earth.
It wasn’t until the 16th century that our understanding of the Solar System evolved. In the early 1500s Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus developed a model of the Solar System where Earth and the other planets orbited around the Sun, and the Moon orbited around Earth. One hundred years later Italian Astronomer Galileo used one of the first telescopes to observe the terminator and deduced from the uneven shadows of the Waning Crescent Phase that the Moon’s surface was pocked with craters and valleys and ridged with mountains.
These observations were revolutionary. Copernicus and Galileo upended the long-held Aristotelian view of the heavens as a place where Earth was the center of the Universe and the Moon was a smooth, polished orb. Telescopes and new minds helped scientist understand that the Earth and planets orbited around the Sun and the Moon was a battered and cratered satellite held in our own orbit.