Adventures in home working

One of my friends, Nic, has started a blog.  Nic has been around computing for more years than I like to think about and has done just about everything,  he's a Chief Architect for a major systems integrator but has many diverse interests as you will see on his blog.  He has promised me that he will start a more technical blog soon, which I looking forward to with great interest.  Subscribe now,  in the next few months you should be in for a treat!

- Posted by Steve Richards - 12:55:41 AM - comment []

I have been quite happy with my two monitor setup at home,  but using maxivista I am now able to drive three monitors from my main desktop PC.  This is just great.  I can now have my email in one, my RSS feeds in another, be using Office in another etc.  I am also using a lot of virtual PC's and I can have these displaying on different monitors.  So I can have RedHat on one monitor and SUSE on another and still be using Office on my third.  It really must have driven my productivity up 20% when I am doing this sort of work, which is probably 50% of the time.  That's at least £100/day.  A staggering return on investment - the third monitor, (old laptop), was being scrapped and Maxivista is about $40!!

The other great advantage is that your concentration and focus is not disrupted, you might think it would be, but it seems that by not switching applications all the time, and by being able to focus on the task at hand on your primary screen, the other two monitors just provide supporting information.

We really must get more people to understand the value proposition of multiple screens!  

- Posted by Steve Richards - 12:25:58 AM - comment []