Comments on: What should I do with my spare screen?

By: Fred

Fred — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:35:24 +0000

Use it for spotify!

By: Fergus

Fergus — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:05:58 +0000

Quote ” but my failing eyesight can barely cope with the email on my larger screen, let alone the laptop’s squidged display”

Have you considered altering the text size on the screen?.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:00:27 +0000

First of all, turn the laptop round and take a picture of the desk behind it with your webcam so that it makes the screen ’see through’. Next, put a few news tickers on it, and they should appear to float in space. It amuses me anyways…

By: Gindylow

Gindylow — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:42:29 +0000

If you dont have extra windows open already, then perhaps all you need to do is move your icons, menu’s and task bar across onto the new screen.

You’ll gain a few extra pixels of height by losing the taksbar, and you dont have to dig underneath your screen to open things off the desktop.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:49:46 +0000

Pass on what you’d put on yours, but on my three screen set up here working from home I’ve our internal IRC, email, word, two browsers, two command prompts and putty sessions as well as VMware.

By: filthmonger

filthmonger — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:25:44 +0000

porn, of course

By: Not him.

Not him. — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:13:57 +0000

I suggest that subsidiary activities – stuff that will occasionally pop up – should be on the smaller screen. You may be able to tweak outlook to have larger text, and pop up emails on the larger screen. You may alternatively, if your eyesight is failing so, wish to use it as a magnifier.

Otherwise, perhaps use it for the reference material you need while writing things – a research display.

Also, an (other) obvious solution for those with failing eyesight: downgrade the resolution, making things larger.

By: muck

muck — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:02:44 +0000

I currently have messenger open, two instances of SQL Server management studio. Visual studio, Firefox and IE, the program I’m writing is running, Outlook, a messenger conversation and an open email. I should get three screens or perhaps just shut down some of the windows but I’m quite lazy

By: Who me?

Who me? — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:59:48 +0000

Barry, surely it’s a bit dangerous asking “what should I do with…” questions here. Someone might give you the obvious answer!

But here’s a suggestion: You could keep a copy of Photoshop open, ready to compress any jpegs that you’re gonna upload to the PC Pro blogs….

Oops!

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:50:55 +0000

You could have the PC Pro forums on the other screen so your able to quickly respond to all our insane posts!