As I mentioned couple of weeks ago I switched to two 1,600 x 1,200 screens. I can't say enough good things about that - it's just marvelous for productivity. However, with so much screen real estate the bland default background of Windows 2003 Server gets boring very quickly. So I set about to search for alternatives. I have known about Digital Blasphemy site for a long time and while I like the images very much it never attracted me so much as to subscribe to it - my screen was always too cluttered with too many windows to appreciate a great looking desktop background. This time however it was different and with a lot of great images provided for 3,200 x 1,200 I was hooked. I subscribed for a year and if it works out good for me I'll go with lifetime subscription next year.
Check out the site for yourself and see if you like it. All the art is created by just one guy, Ryan Bliss, and he's behind the site as well. You can check more about him here.
Showing posts with label monitors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label monitors. Show all posts
Monday, March 05, 2007
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Going multi-monitor
Yesterday I have received my DELL 2007FP monitors! Here's a shot:
So far it has been a joy to work with and I'm really happy I have chosen two 20" 1600x1200 screens over one 24" 1920x1200 one. This is my primary development machine and it feels great to run VS2005 on one screen with Management Studio, Firefox, IE7, VMWare and MSDN Library running on the other!
First thing I did though was to install a trial of UltraMon. It's a great utility and unless something catastrophic happens with it I will buy it soon. The only thing so far that I wish it would do and it doesn't is show Alt+Tab window on both monitors, not just on the primary.
I also needed a new keyboard so I ran out and bought Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 (I sure hope they don't keep adding new adjectives to their product names.) I love Microsoft Natural keyboards and I have been using them happily for over 7 years now. I've been through three of them so far; my keyboards do heavy mileage (although one is still alive on another PC). On the other hand, I'm still using the good old Microsoft Intellisense Optical mouse - it's over 6 years old now and it still works great (although I'll admit that I've been eyeing a new one.)
In the background you can see my faithful HP notebook. It's almost two years old now so I will need to upgrade it soon. It runs Outlook, IM, Office and it collects general clutter. I develop on it only rarely.
So far it has been a joy to work with and I'm really happy I have chosen two 20" 1600x1200 screens over one 24" 1920x1200 one. This is my primary development machine and it feels great to run VS2005 on one screen with Management Studio, Firefox, IE7, VMWare and MSDN Library running on the other!
First thing I did though was to install a trial of UltraMon. It's a great utility and unless something catastrophic happens with it I will buy it soon. The only thing so far that I wish it would do and it doesn't is show Alt+Tab window on both monitors, not just on the primary.
I also needed a new keyboard so I ran out and bought Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 (I sure hope they don't keep adding new adjectives to their product names.) I love Microsoft Natural keyboards and I have been using them happily for over 7 years now. I've been through three of them so far; my keyboards do heavy mileage (although one is still alive on another PC). On the other hand, I'm still using the good old Microsoft Intellisense Optical mouse - it's over 6 years old now and it still works great (although I'll admit that I've been eyeing a new one.)
In the background you can see my faithful HP notebook. It's almost two years old now so I will need to upgrade it soon. It runs Outlook, IM, Office and it collects general clutter. I develop on it only rarely.
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