Rotate 90 degrees
Every day in the summer, my office has been cursed by the fact that my window faces directly west and I cannot bear to be at my computer from about 3:30pm to around 6pm because the sun is shining directly into my eyes. All I could do if I wanted to get stuff done was to take my laptop into the living room.
Yesterday I finally had enough and decided to rotate my office 90 degrees. Today was kind of overcast and rainy, so didn’t get to see how the sun is, but I can tell that it is a lot better since now the sun is off my side instead of right in front of me. Still need to hook up the printer though, since I need to dig up a different extension cord and longer ethernet cable.
Before: [photo:1162] After: [photo:1540]
Also rotated my LCDs and I’m now using them in portrait mode. So far, I like it. Visual Studio is very nice being longer, IE/Firefox is nice, Money is nice, and getting used to Outlook. Main issue is parts of the screen seem to flicker or stutter. I’ve noticed the screen refreshes horizontally (when it is in normal mode), so moving windows arround quickly looks worse in portrait mode.
One of the guys at work went to portrait mode as well, looks like the same monitors you have and everything. At best, he "deals" with the screen refresh issues, and I agree, the tall screen is great for coding, but after seeing his issues, I couldn’t justify it. Nice office though.
ken
25 Mar 06 at 8:11pm
Ah, you rotated both? Now that makes more sense of what you were telling me.
Very odd about the flicker. I have my ViewSonic VP201b monitors at the same resolution (1600×1200) turned sideways, and not a single flicker of any kind. I use them as my 2nd monitor at work and at home, where my laptop’s 1920×1280 display is the primary display for both units.
When I get my desktop up and running again, I’ll see about turning them both sideways. I was afraid of loosing the 1600px wide, going to 1200px wide for my primary.
But if you are liking it, I’ll give it a shot as well.
ken
16 Apr 06 at 12:40pm
my laptop screen is on it s side i dont know how to change it any ideas
ken
17 Apr 06 at 3:36am
mkchael:
First, you have to have a monitor that supports roating 90 degrees.
If it does, it has software that came with it to rotate it.
For me, the ATI Rage graphics card I have in this laptop detected my monitor can rotate 90 degrees, and gave me the option of just rotating it in the Advanced properties.
ken
17 Apr 06 at 7:13pm