hey everybody welcome back my name is mr campbell from mr campbellrocks.com today we are going
to talk about resizing windows on a mac using just the native resizing tools but also duelis
and another extension called window resizer and what some of those things can do there's been a
lot of questions about how to resize windows when i'm in a google meet or
i'm presenting in a jam board or different things like that so let's jump into it so
first what we're going to do is we're going to just talk about how to resize windows
just natively on a mac how you can make them even have multiple windows stuff like that so
this is a new window here and we have three options up here it's a little bit different we're
in chrome not safari but on a pc the options over on the right hand side and they're a little bit
different so today we're just going to go through the mac so obviously to close the window we're
going to hit the red button i'm not going to close it because i want this open to minimize here right
this this takes this down to basically our toolbar right where we have all of our apps and all the
things that we have going on down here when we hit this green right this is a maximize full screen so
what that does actually that will pull our menu from the top and our toolbar from the bottom
so what if i wanted to go full screen but i don't want to lose the toolbar or different
things like that what you have the option to do is to basically double click on the corners
and that will take it full screen not only can you double click on the corners when you're
moving things around but you can double click on the top or on the left or right and what that'll
automatically do you can see my cursor right here when i double click there it'll automatically take
that all the way out that also works again if we're on the corner up here if i shrink this in
if i double click here it's going to expand this all the way to the edge of the screen
you'll notice it doesn't take up the whole screen because i still have my menu at the top and if i
come down here you'll see that i have the toolbar down here at the bottom and i basically the menu
bar at the bottom once i hit the maximize button what that do is it's going to enter full screen
this is where you can start to play with sliding back and forth between windows and that's going
to be on your trackpad or your mouse or however the settings that you have set up on your mac
and to leave that you basically hit the screen button again it'll take it back to full screen
so the other cool thing that we have is we can do a multi-shrink so if i hold the option button down
which is the one that has the line and the little left to right angle i'll try and put a picture
right here if i hold that down it will shrink both sides at the same time and that works all the way
around so if i hit control you'll notice that i'm pulling the inside and or the top on the bottom
and on the left and the right it will keep going
until it gets all the way to the edge of the screen
and then it'll shrink back so i can drag this as much as i want so i'm going to open a new window
by hitting command n and you'll notice whenever i open a new window the most recent window that
i used is going to be the size of the new window so i have two windows that are exactly the same
showed you this a little bit earlier let's say we're in classroom and we also want to have a
meet going on on the other side so we're doing some grading on the right we're monitoring our
class on or we're doing our google classroom on the left and we want to
monitor our meet on the right well what you can do is if we hover over
or hold down it gives us the option to enter full screen
or to tile the window on the left side of the screen so we can tile that to the left
and once i click on this right window it'll automatically tile so now i've got an even
split of my windows now this is great because it gives us a 50 50 view if i drag that gray bar in
the middle i can move this around however i want and you'll notice if i join or start a meeting
the window size again i'm going to mute myself and take that off
we'll fit here
and that's about as far as we can go right is a 30 it looks like a 30-70
right now i'm going to exit this come back over here this automatically went full screen
next to this so now we've got these two windows this is where duelist comes into play because
duelist will actually give us those ratios so duelist is a google chrome extension here
when i click on this it's going to give us a three to seven or 30 70 right if you're looking
at the whole screen a six to four five to five four to six so when i click on five to five this
is going to go to my left and this will go to my right and you'll see that i have the 50 50
split but what if i want to go to a three you'll notice right here i still have the five over here
i can come over to the seven it's going to give me a 30 to seven or three to seven split right that's
what duelist allows us to do is have multiple windows at the same time there are some other
extensions that resize the entire window based on the program that you're using and so one of those
which i enjoy is this one right here what this allows you to also is to have a pop-up in a new
window so if i open up a new window you'll notice that the meat actually gets pulled right out
here in this window and i can resize this to the size of an ipad
to the size of a phone or i can go full laptop mode and that basically goes full screen you'll
notice this is just the window and it pulled that out straight from the meet tab here
right so you can do that with gmail you can pull out your email right so email has a pop
out that'll allow you to do that internally but now you can actually just pull that all
the way out and have a window here so i'm going to close this and we'll show you again
so the other options that you can have you can set your main window just to the size of a phone
right it's a little bit bigger than a phone you'll see that those options are gone now
we can go all the way to a desktop and you'll notice that this goes this covers my whole screen
so if i am using a projector i'm projecting onto another computer this will basically pixelize
and it'll fill that entire screen so if you're on a projector or if you're using an apple tv
or if you're using a mirror cast or something like that you can resize your window without
having to do this manually every time so the other resizing window right here is this is built for
any kind of setup that you want so based on
the size that you want you can resize and basically that visual will pull that resizing tool
right to the one you want so there's the one on top if we do the bottom right corner you'll see
i don't love this one unless i'm projecting on another screen where i need to adjust it
for that screen or if i'm working with a desktop on a mac the two that i love are duelists here
and this one which is the photo resizer i will put links to both of them below hopefully this helps
you as you're going into online learning online teaching online everything or if you're trying
to manage what's happening in your classroom and you're teaching live but you've also got
your computer recording in front of you that way you could have your meet link over on the left
you could see the other things that you have over on the right sorry my two hands you can't see my
two hands and you can see everything that's happening because if we're being realistic
you're running a google me recording yourself some of you
may have kids right sitting behind this computer participating in class and also having kids at
home watching the google meet and so you've got to be monitoring what's happening on the meet
or the zoom and then in the classroom as well uh behaviorally wise it's going to be amazing i'm
interested to see all the things that come out of this as far as what's happening that's what
some of our teachers are doing in our building but i wanted to thank you for your time today i love
you i appreciate you if you have any questions go ahead and put them below in the comments and
i will add the two links to the extensions in the comments below for the resizing tool and duelists