Having a large or wide screen monitor is great but in many instances the space isn’t used effectively by default. A full screen web browser at 1600px across, for instance, will give you a lot of empty space because web pages aren’t designed for wide screen browsing. I just upgraded from 4:3 monitors to 16:9 monitors—see photo above—and I’m having to find new ways to use that extra space.
We want to hear about the applications you use to take advantage of having a large screen and how they help you. Do use applications for remembering window positions, rapidly resizing, maintaining virtual desktops for work and play, or other neat tricks? Let’s hear about it in the comments.
John Cox
Saturday, December 5, 2009 at 12:53 PMNow runnig 4 x 1680 x 1050 (3 x 20″ dells mounted on an Ergotron stand plus laptop screen). I use Ultramon with the smart taskbar feature, and some remapping of the mouse search button to make an app jump screens.
Love to hear other thoughts on apps. How about something like the native Windows 7 resize to half screeen – that works on the edges of the screens not just the edges of the desktop.
roid
Saturday, December 5, 2009 at 5:52 PMI tend to open youtube videos in a browser window on my LEFT (so i can overlay windows ontop of it and only have the actual video space itself viewable).
And things i need to read (such as lifehacker) on the RIGHT.
I will read until a video has cached enough, then switch over.
Matthew Bowerman
Saturday, December 5, 2009 at 6:43 PMGridMove (Lifehacker has addressed this tiny, indispensable application before) is a must-have for quickly and accurately resizing windows. For simple things, Windows 7′s new feature might be sufficient; for greater complexity or control, GridMove is the way to go.
minhtam
Saturday, December 5, 2009 at 10:27 PMUltraMon and WinSplit Revolution, both Lifehacker featured, are an excellent combination that has served me for years.
John Cox
Saturday, December 5, 2009 at 11:40 PMOooh yes, loving WinSplit Revolution, thanks for the heads up.
cam
Sunday, December 6, 2009 at 2:08 AMi use a 36inch monitor but on only 1360*768 resolution looks great about 2 feet in front of me
Stephen Gore
Monday, December 7, 2009 at 8:50 AMDisplayFusion is what I’ve been using for year. I agree that Win 7 will probably make some of what I use it for (i.e. maximised window dragging between windows) redundant.
ian
Monday, December 7, 2009 at 5:46 PMworking on up to 3 to 6 screens (depends on the day), which are between 3-5 computers, use Synergy to control them all with one keyboard and one mouse.
roll the most off the screen, and onto the monitor of another pc, and that’s where the controls go. Will even cross from vista/xp/linux/mac, just point at the pc you want to control. (haven’t used on mac myself).