I'm a neatness freak, and I hate lots of messy overlapping windows everywhere. But I'm also a keyboard junkie, and I hate using the trackpad a lot. And I don't want anymore background processes hogging memory, or more applications to open for such a simple task -- so what to do? Answer: AppleScript. I wrote a collection of AppleScripts that use System Events to control the window size and position of the frontmost application. Also, the window snaps to a grid to make it easy to place next to other windows without overlapping. You can find the scripts on my iDisk public folder (Go » iDisk » Other User's Public Folder, then enter phildooher). Download the zip file and put the (nine) scripts in your usual script folder. The scripts are known to work on OS X 10.4.11, but are untested on 10.5. [robg adds: I tested a few of these, but not all, on 10.5, and they seem to work as described.] Assign keyboard shortcuts to these scripts (using Quicksilver o...

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