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How to Make the Most of Your Multiple Monitors in Windows 7

Posted on 28. Apr, 2010 by Bernie Thompson in Windows

Lifehacker has just posted a great article: How to Make the Most of Your Multiple Monitors in Windows 7.

Some of our favorite tips from the article:

• Turn on Window’s “Show location of pointer when I press the CTRL key” feature
• The hotkey Win-[up, down, left, right] for maximizing, restoring and moving windows across monitors
• Their recommended links to find cool multimonitor wallpaper

In any case, it’s a must-read post for the multi-monitor aficionado.

OS X 10.6.3 and DisplayLink Rotation

Posted on 30. Mar, 2010 by Bernie Thompson in Using

There are reports of a few problems with the just-released OS X 10.6.3 update from Apple, and current DisplayLink drivers (1.5 and 1.6 beta) for Mac. In particular, displays in a rotated (portrait) configuration are corrupted. Switching back to standard unrotated mode is a workaround.

DisplayLink users on Mac might want to hold off on Apple’s update until any problems are shaken out.

Multi-Monitor Madness

Posted on 25. Mar, 2010 by Bernie Thompson in Windows

This is an older video from NetworkWorld.TV showing an earlier iteration of the DisplayLink technology we use at Plugable.

A few things that have evolved since the video:

* Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Mac support
* Open Source exists for programming the DisplayLink chips
* It’s hard to find monitors with DisplayLink integrated, but it’s easy to find the adapters that work with any monitor (like our UGA-2K-A, which uses the DisplayLink DL-195 chip)
* The video showed an adapter with only VGA out. Our provides the more flexible DVI out, and includes simple, passive DVI->VGA and DVI->HDMI adapters which work transparently.
* The video doesn’t talk about resolutions, but the newest chips like the DisplayLink DL-195 can hit higher resolutions and/or have higher quality motion video playback at lower resolutions.

And it’s still the best and easiest way to outfit a cool bat cave.