This beautiful temple is located in my native place, Villianur, Pondicherry. The oldest among the temples located in Pondicherry.
The Lord is Sri Thirukameshwarar.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
This beautiful temple is located in my native place, Villianur, Pondicherry. The oldest among the temples located in Pondicherry.
The Lord is Sri Thirukameshwarar.
Monday, October 20, 2008
We all love working in multiple windows. How about working in multiple monitors with a single operating system? Recently I came to know (this feature is an old one though) about extending the monitor to another monitor attached to the computer. This one is amazing and couldn't stop me from sharing it here.
I will explain the steps to configure this in Windows XP.
First of all, A multi-monitor configuration on a Windows system is always presented as an extended desktop, with the work area spanning the configured monitors. You can drag windows from one monitor to the other, or they can span monitors.
The extended desktop configuration works best when using a single graphics adapter with two video outputs. If you use multiple graphics adaptors, features such as 3D hardware video acceleration may only be available on one monitor.
My configuration has got one laptop and one 19 inch monitor connected to it.
To configure a multi-monitor configuration using the Windows Display applet; either:
- Select Start->Settings->Control Panel ->Display
The figure shows the Display Properties control panel for a common dual-monitor configuration.
The left-hand image shows the primary display selected and identified as monitor 1.
The right-hand image shows the secondary display selected and identified as monitor 2.
The coordinates of the upper-left corner of the secondary display are shown in the tool-tip ("Secondary Display (1600, 0)").
Also, the Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor check box is selected to extend the desktop onto the secondary monitor.
Now, you should be able to see the display in both the monitors. The task bar and everything you do in your system will be displayed only in the primary monitor (laptop in my example - you can change it to have your monitor 2 as primary monitor). If you want to have your opened windows in your second monitor, you must drag it and place it in the second monitor using the mouse. After that you can work on that particular window which will be displayed only in second window. If you open any dialog from that application/window it will appear in the primary monitor again. You have to drag that window again to your second monitor in case you want it there.
In the display properties shown in the configuration, the two monitors (1 and 2) can be moved using mouse to exactly tell where the monitors are placed. If your primary monitor is placed at the right side, you must move the second monitor to the left side (be default, monitor 1 is at left and monitor 2 is at right). This is to help how to track the mouse movements between the two monitors.
we are not done yet!!
Disadvantages:
2. In case you have multiple windows, switching between the applications/windows is very difficult as you have to come to monitor 1 to do that.
3. To have any window move it to monitor 2, you must always use mouse which is very tedious.
To solve all these problems, we have software called "multi-mon taskbar". (There are many other software which can do this task).
You can download this software from this location:
http://www.mediachance.com/free/multimon.htm
Once you download it, the life becomes easier than ever. After you finish the above mentioned configuration in you system, you get a separate taskbar in monitor 2 which will hold all the windows that are moved to the monitor2. Any window can be moved to monitor 2 using a single click button available in the title bar.
We are done now. Now, you have two monitors which will exactly give you a feel of working in two computers. Happy multi-monitoring!!!
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
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