Posts Tagged Geek Toys
Sysinternals’ Desktops
Posted by William in Dual Screen, Gamer Wife, Geek Toys, Microsoft, Ummm OK on August 24, 2008
Microsoft’s Sysinternals team, who is already know for their work writing some the THE best tools around for system administration and has added a new gem to their crown. Desktops 1.0. It is an ultralight weight tool that allows you to swap between four desktops by hotkey or mouse click.
The Good
- The tool is very light weight only being one file and is a whopping 118,824 bytes, no DLLs or other files are needed.
- It works well with multi-monitor systems creating it’s virtual desktops that spanned both monitors.
The Bad
- There do not seem to be any major issues, other then it would not allow me to open a second copy of firefox in one of other desktops.
Microsoft description of the tool is:
Desktops allows you to organize your applications on up to four virtual desktops. Read email on one, browse the web on the second, and do work in your productivity software on the third, without the clutter of the windows you’re not using. After you configure hotkeys for switching desktops, you can create and switch desktops either by clicking on the tray icon to open a desktop preview and switching window, or by using the hotkeys
Desktop Doodads
Posted by William in Dual Screen, Geek Toys on August 24, 2007
I am not just a gamer, I am a a core geek. It is my goal to not just write about games, but anything this clueless geek can think of.
I am not a big fan of Windows desktop gadgets, but every now and then I find one I like, there is Ultramon for managing a desktop with two or more monitors (I live by it at work where I have do many windows open two, having two monitors is a need more then a want). Multiplicity lets you control multiple computers with a single keyboard and mouse. But I may have found a new one to add, so far I am liking,WinSplit Revolution. I run a 24 inch wide screen monitor and this allows me to easily have two applications open side by side getting the most out of the wide screen.
I am also looking at Vista Virtual Desktop Manager but I am not sure if I like it or not yet. Here is the blurb on it:
Introduction
Vista provides developers with the new DWM based aero interface. A new set of thumbnail API’s can be used to access some of this new technology. This virtual desktop program takes advantage of this new API and uses some tricks of its own to provide a powerful virtual desktop manager with a full screen thumbnail based preview. You can have as many desktops as you want and can seamlessly switch between them.
I will have to play a bit more with it and see if offers anything I can use.