One of my Christmas gifts this year was a 24" monitor. I currently have a 17" laptop and a 12" netbook, and have been keeping the netbook in my office, hooking up the 24" monitor. For the first few days, my new monitor displayed a copy of my netbook monitor, but I recently found out how easy it was to have two monitors. All I had to do was hook up the new monitor to the netbook, and hit Windows-P (the "Windows" button is the one near the spacebar that has the Windows logo on it). Now I can have different programs and browswer windows open. The photo above shows my usual set up, with the IBD on the big screen, and www.stockcharts.com open on the netbook. As I read the paper, I can check out the chart.
I think at some point, I would like to have a triple- or even quadruple screen set up. I suppose there might be a way to attach even more monitors to my current setup, but I assume it would take another piece of hardware as there are no additional plug-ins to use.
I've been also trying to figure out how to use my iPod and iTunes more effectively. Right now, my main iTunes is on an older laptop that sits in our living room. My iPod gets it's greatest amount of use in my bathroom (I have an iPod dock with radio/speakers in there and I like to listen to tunes while I get ready for work). But I can't figure out how to get my iTunes in my office. I have set up the library sharing, but it doesn't seem to pull up everything in my main iTunes collection, and the network loses signal too frequently to enjoy (even though I routinely have 4-5 bars). My laptop in the living room downloads all sorts of podcasts, which I'd like to pull into my office and listen to, but it keeps dropping the signal. Of course I could just sync my ipod and use that, but then I have to hook it up to an old set of computer speakers (I wish it were possible to attach an ipod to a computer and use the computer speakers as an output).
Comments