The Dual Monitor Club
Friday, August 10th, 2007
Today, while reading Coding Horror, I found out about some great free software called GridMove which has given me the push I needed to rotate one of my 1600×1200 monitors. Now I can run tests at close to our design resolution (1280×768)[1] on two browsers at the same time without doing anything more complicated than middle clicking on the browser title bars and pushing them to the desired grids.
The real problem with multiple monitors is you soon find yourself desiring more, and right now a second portrait monitor on the left hand side seems like a nice idea [2].
[1] Obviously this actually gives me two windows sized at 1200×800, but if something looks bad at this size it is probably going to look bad at 1280×768. The height doesn’t usually matter, but horizontal scrolling in browsers is evil.
[2] Unfortunately, in this regard, my work PC is a laptop and (AFAIK) triple monitor support isn’t really an option.