One of my favourite little desktop apps that I discovered a few months ago is MaxTo. It allows you to divide your Windows desktop into regions and then maximize applications to those regions, allowing perfect and practically effortless tiling. However, I don’t recommend that you download it. Not from the official website, anyway.
As of June 2nd, MaxTo stopped being a free application licensed under a Creative-Commons 3 license and went commercial. There is nothing wrong with this. However, I am miffed that I only discovered this after MaxTo had installed an update to my free version and turned it into a 30-day trial. What the hell? Here’s the dialog box I clicked on to install the new version:
I’m not impressed. I clicked on the ‘Yes’ button hoping to see a new, improved version of the app that I loved, not a sudden notice of impending termination of functionality. Instead of giving me something new, the creators decided to take it all away. That makes me sad.
However, there is a happy ending to this tale! The old version of MaxTo may have been removed from the official site, but my downloads folder is very big. I have downloads in there from waaay back. After a bit of digging, I found the old installer for the free version. Hooray! I promptly uninstalled the new, commercial version and re-installed the older one. Balance was once again restored to the Desktop. There’s even a handy checkbox in the options that turns off the update-checking.
Best of all though, because the old version is licensed under CC, I’m free to re-distribute it here for anyone that wants it. Yay!
Maxto Installer version 1
Hey, thanks for this. That was a dirty update move by the MaxTo guy which makes me not want to give him money.
Thanks. I second the opinion of the first poster.
I am sorry you feel that way, and that it took me over 2 years to find this post. It was definitely not my intention to alienate you with this update, and do feel free to distribute the older version. At the time, the only update option we had was either send it to everyone, or send it to no-one. We felt that the new version, even though it cost a little bit of money, was worth the hassle.
I hope you still enjoy MaxTo! :) Feel free to e-mail me if you have any questions.
Cheers,
Vegard