Question for you.

[andrewducker]

Widescreen monitors are now most definitely in.  But does anyone know _why_?

I can understand them on laptops.  And clearly widescreen TVs are better for films.  But why monitors?

Comments

[drainboy.livejournal.com]

I don't think having dual monitors is geeky. It is necessary! :D

Ask me to connect up my tivo to my PC (or some of the wacky things Andy does) and I'd have no chance.

No, wait, I could probably google it and get stuck half way through. Maybe 2% chance.

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

Two monitors definitely ... I was sick in bed recently and having to work from one laptop screen and it was total hell :-)

My plan is to put one of my video projectors in the computer room as a third screen so that I can watch TV/Movies on that, and the rest of the time it would be a parking space for windows I'm not currently working on so I can pull them back into the central focus when needed.

[drainboy.livejournal.com]

Now projector monitors would be cool. You just want to have everything connected to everything so you can just say "I'll use my monitor, my projector, my microwave and my iPhone as monitors please".

As will happen in the future!

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

Yes! And with cloud computing, so you can be working on a document on your machine at work, decide to head home, drag the open window onto your iPhone and keep working on it on the train and when you get home, drag it onto your home theatre screen!

[drainboy.livejournal.com]

Now that _would_ be magic.

[andrewducker]

You can do that with Google docs, for a simple doc.

Or if you want your whole session then Remote Desktop will do it. I do that all the time. LogMeIn has an iPhone client...

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

but that would be doing entirely *too much damned work* and rather defeating thepoint of going home methinks....

[andrewducker]

You can do that with Google docs, for a simple doc.

Or if you want your whole session then Remote Desktop will do it. I do that all the time. LogMeIn has an iPhone client...

[andrewducker]

Tivo's aren't actually geeky. SCART cable from cable box to Tivo, SCART cable from Tivo to TV. Phone line from wall to Tivo (so it can download the EPG). That's it...

[drainboy.livejournal.com]

I could connect it to my TV, sure...but don't you have yours connected to your PC as well?

[andrewducker]

I don't actually have the Tivo any more. I do have an Apple TV hooked up. That's got an HDMI lead hooked up to the TV. And a WiFi connection that I had to give my WiFi key to.

Other than that, I just had to follow the instructions here to install XBMC:
http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=XBMC_for_Mac_on_Apple_TV#HOW-TO_install_XBMC_on_your_Apple_TV

It really was dead simple :->