Be Excellent To Each Other

I finally bought a desk clamp for my secondary monitor on my PC. This means I can rotate it. It's 22", so rotated it runs at 1050 (which is enough width for most web pages) by 1680 (which is a hell of a lot of pixels).

Here's the front page of Beex in a full-screen Firefox window:

Look at how much you can read at a glance! I could get very used to this.

The only problem is the fonts look rough -- the antialiasing isn't very good on this cheap Benq panel -- Windows will have the subpixel ordering wrong. I have a better quality Viewsonic, so I'll probably swap that out.

looks cool doc

I tried that with my monitor at work. Couldn't get on with it at all for some reason.
Could be good for playing certain arcade games though..

go play dodonpachi dude

Looks cool, but I can't use full-screen applications for reading so it'd be no use for me.

A colleague of mine has this set-up at work... The cunt. He doesn't even spend all of his time on here like I do. Uses it for "coding".

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.

Ah, wasn't there a specific Commodore monitor for DTP work, it was purely in portrait mode IIRC. Perhaps the same thing.

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 have a rotating monitor, excellent for Ikaruga on the 360.

my stupid samsung t220 doesn't rotate

Good old Nvrotate.

I did it once, but had to turn my head sideways

I really need to have a go with that app that lets you maximise to either the left or right half of the screen, as my vertical resolution is already 1600 (which does indeed reduce a lot of the need for vertical scrolling). 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.

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.

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.

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.

Why so?

It feels weird and I don't like moving my eyes too much. I'd prefer to scroll than look up.

Ah, I see. It's fantastic for opening API reference docs on the second monitor when I am working on the main one, because I can flick my eyes up and down it whilst keeping mouse focus on whatever I am working on.