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The Small-Monitor Blues

Monday, 17 January 2000


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We're starting to clean up the condo in preparation for putting it on the market. That means, in part, that I have to make the sunroom/computer room a little more presentable. The wife has decreed that the big ol' honkin' 21" monitor must go. So I am reduced to using my original 13" Macintosh monitor.

I've been spoiled by the 21" beast. I used to be able to open open as many windows as I needed and scatter them about the screen all willy-nilly. Now I'm lucky if I can read the window that's in front at 640x480, never mind trying to find the right window to switch to when I'm writing HTML in BBEdit and want to see the page in Netscape.

Anyone out there have any good strategies for dealing with a tiny monitor? Comments welcome at niel@bornstein.atlanta.ga.us.


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