JosephBustillos.com » monitors http://josephbustillos.com Musings on Education, Technology, Pop Culture, Religion & Staying Curious Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:26:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Shuffling Three Monitors http://josephbustillos.com/2008/12/18/shuffling-three-monitors/ http://josephbustillos.com/2008/12/18/shuffling-three-monitors/#comments Fri, 19 Dec 2008 03:42:01 +0000 jbb http://joebustillos.com/?p=1724
I love screen real estate. Duh. Like many other things there is no such thing as too much screen real estate. But there are always weird limitations. Pretty much all laptops have one port for one external monitor. I’ve added a USB converter from Gefen that gives me a second external monitor. Love all the screens. Alas, web video runs really slow on the USB connected monitor and DVD doesn’t run on it all. Also, iMovie won’t run with the USB monitor adapter connected and with the recent Final Cut Pro installation, I want to jump into more video editing but it’s unlikely that FCP will like running with the second USB monitor adapter attached. Additionally, even though my 32″ Vizio is by far the biggest screen, it has a lower screen resolution than the much smaller LCDs (1024 vs. 1440). So the plan was to use the big ol’ Vizio for DVD/Video playback, but make it detachable so that I can video edit with other monitor… ah, no go. So, I need to switch it all around, putting the mbp back in the middle, connect the DVI to the Vizio and connect the second monitor to the USB adapter for slow web browsing and email monitoring (No Video!!!). See what I go through to have such an amazing rig. jbb

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Geek moment, Full Sail students were doing presentations in Second Life and I thought that I’d take a picture of my rig. On the right is my macbook pro with my two chat clients running on the extreme right and Second Life running on the rest of the screen. The laptop is connected to my 32″ LCD TV running some software I use to write my notes as the students do their presentations (the software is called, appropriately enough, Notebook by Circus Ponies). On the left of the Notebook app is my Contact app, open to which ever student is doing their presentation, so that I can see their real smiling face and info while jotting my notes. Next to the TV, on the left is a third screen (19″ LCD), where I usually have a browser running to check notes/info while the sessions are running on the other screens. Yeah, major geek-out.

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