Increasing Productivity with Dual Monitors
It has been weeks in the planning, so I finally found a good deal and bit the bullet to get a 22″ Widescreen LCD. I have read many articles including one from New York Times, about how adding an additional monitor can increase your productivity by 30%. Since I found myself constantly minimizing and moving windows around, I am sure I increase my efficiency by at least 25% when I am really crunching a lot of work.
I already owned a 19″ LCD with a resolution of 1280X1024, so I knew that my only options were either another 19″ with the same resolution or a 22″ WideScreen LCD with a resolution of 1680X1050 so that the vertical pixel height was nearly the same. Having the vertical pixel height nearly the same makes dragging windows from screen to screen easy.
In combinaton with a Dual DVI Nvidia Card, I am using the software UltraMon which configures the screen layouts, so that each screen can have a seperate taskbar, seperate screensavers, seperate background all while acting as on long monitor. This program adds icons onto every window so that any window can sent to the other monitor with one click of a button or any window can fill the space of both screen with another click of a button.
The setup was easier than I ever imagined since I have read about people having a lot of problems. The hardest thing that is still a problem now, is the color adjustment between two monitors of different type. Each monitor has a certain brightness and natural color, so to match the two while having the 
gamma and brightness correct is quite difficult. I have been trying to find programs to help me, but they all cost a fair amount of money. So for now it looks alright, but probably would not be great for image editing.
Anyways, I absolutely love it so far and it also makes Flight Simulator X a lot more fun. If only I had more time to fly!
NOT MY SETUP, BUT HAVING TWO MONITORS IS GETTING CLOSER
Read some of these articles that I found if you are interested in a dual monitor setup.
Dual Monitor Better than one: Setup
The Virtues of a second screen
Two Monitors are way better than one
dual monitors, flight simulator dual monitor, increasing productivity, productivity, successYou Don’t Know Jack Online
April 24, 2007 by Adam
Filed under Media, Tech, Whatever Else
If you haven’t hear of “You don’t know Jack”, then you are really missing out on experiencing this entertaining game. If you have heard of “You Don’t know Jack”, did you know that you can play it online? A little while ago they released the 8th episode of YDKJ and it is just as fun as ever. The online version isn’t quite as cool as the actual game you buy, but it does ask questions relating to today, so it is good in its own way. This game is a great game to play with friends and family especially if you have a big screen. Anyways check it out, because it only take 10 minutes to play and you will definintely enjoy yourself. Good Luck.
Games, online, You Dont Know JackGoogle Page Rank, what?
Today while checking out some of my favortie blogs, I came across a new and extremely popular blog on the internet which talked their predicted Page Rank.
With mention of how that site was expected to get a PR of 4, I immediately was curious and scared to know how my not as popular blog was going to rank, because I was always hoping for a PR of at least 4.
So I quickly went over to iwebtool.com to check out the predicted ratings of some of my favorite blogs that started blogging around the same time frame as me.
What Results did I get? Let’s just say it surprised me greatly. Here it is.
That right, a PR of 5 is what I am expected to get. How can that be?
I think I know how this is possible, because back when I didn’t know any better, I submitted my site to probably 100 directories and participated in a lot of random PR increasing methods.
Lets just hope that it actually comes out to be a PR of 5 and then I will be really happy.
The real key needs to be for me to focus on increasing website traffic so I feel like my work is worth while.
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After reading the story about using Myspace to increase blog traffic on BloggerLounge.net, I decided to try this out with my new site BlogBait.net.
The idea is to have a MySpace page that is about the blog your trying to promote; in my case BlogBait.net. To promote that page, there are software bots that automate the process of adding friends and send messages.
First thing, Badder Adder and Friend Adder are no longer available online. I am suspecting that they have been attacked by MySpace for having bot software and were either paid off or worked out a deal. So it isn’t as straight forward as it may seem to use one of these friend adder tools.
I did manage to find a program called “Easy Adder” that worked fairly well and has yet to be taken down by MySpace. They do have a 60-minute time limit though so I didn’t get to use it very long before it stopped.
I also was able to find Badder Adder on a Torrent site, so by this morning I was able to try out Badder Adder.
Badder Adder has less features than Easy Adder, but it shows what it is doing in a browser window. Badder Adder is also much faster than Easy Adder, because Easy Adder has “Ban protection” techniques that prevent your account from getting banned. I found that Badder Adder simulates a human users behaviors fairly well just really fast. After some time, MySpace requires a “Image Text Verification” about every 10 add requests which is a little annoying, but necessary to prevent bots. Both BadderAdder and Easy Adder have a nice way to enter the text verification even though sometimes Easy Adder doesn’t work and I had to restart.
RESULTS:
So far so good, I did a total of about 500 friend requests. I have had about 15 new friends in 10 hours overnight and I expect those numbers to grow much larger as people check their MySpace throughout the week. The real test will be seeing my Google Analytics to see how many people came to BlogBait.net through MySpace.com.
I will report back the results next week.
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