Nik wrote:
Actually I'm sure I remember reading Windows 7 has something along those lines built in.
It does. Win+left arrow and WIn+right arrow maximise the window to half the screen, on the appropriate side. That's a nifty feature.
RuySan wrote:
my stupid samsung t220 doesn't rotate
I share your pain! My T260HD (that's next to that rotated 22") doesn't have VESA mounts, for some unfathomable stupid reason. I wanted to get a two-monitor mounting arm so I could free up some desk space but sadly I cannot.
MetalAngel wrote:
A friend had a neat mouse and matching pad. The pad represented the screen, and if you picked up the mouse, and placed it down elsewhere on the pad the cursor would jump to where you'd put it. I think it was intended for artists or CAD users, in that you could put a schematic on the pad and then accurately reproduce it on the screen.
I used one of those, and I owned one too at one point. They worked a bit like laptop glidepads do, a copper grid in the pad that sensed the position of a small magnet in the mouse. They were really weird to use as a mouse.
MetalAngel wrote:
I remember they used to do rotating monitors (a Mac place had 'em) for people who did desktop publishing. For normal work, you'd have it at the normal horizontal aspect, or you could twist it vertically so you could fit an entire page of A4 on at once. Very cool.
Yeah, you get some monitors that sense you tilting them, tell the PC what has happened, and then a special driver kicked in and auto-rotated the screen.
Malabar Front wrote:
Looks cool, but I can't use full-screen applications for reading so it'd be no use for me.
Why so?