Comments on: Size Does Matter — Bigger Monitors Save 2.5 Hours a Day

By: Kelsey

Kelsey — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:11:28 +0000

That makes sense. I like my bigger screen at work a lot more than my 15-inch laptop screen at home. Now I feel like it is so much smaller!

By: Jose Castro-Frenzel

Jose Castro-Frenzel — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:09:42 +0000

Tim, what was your final verdict in regards to using a larger monitor? Did you ever get a larger display and if so which one?

Thanks

Jose

By: Nicola

Nicola — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:07:29 +0000

I have found that changing the background colour of my screen has dramatically increased my reading speed for emails and websites. Some people require lighter or darker colours so that the black type can stand out more. You can play around with background colours in the control panel to see which one suits you best.

By: Adrian Strock

Adrian Strock — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:50:15 +0000

I use this monitor at home and at work. It is excellent quality at a great price. Only downside is no DVI. I hope it helps you as much as it helps me!

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4938551&CatId=3774

By: Beast Of Bodmin

Beast Of Bodmin — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:16:30 +0000

I think the biggest time wasters are having to reorganise windows if you must have a lot of windows open to do your job. So having a large enough screen or screens allows you to see a lot of stuff without the need to reorganise.

Some of the reasons for this are due to deficiencies in GUI design.

Windows’ and Mac OS X’s click to focus and raise on focus is a pain. Many Unix users like to have focus follows mouse. That way, you can stack windows and paste input into different windows without having to pop them to the top. So maybe you are scraping information from various documents and want to paste them into some note taking application.

Applications stealing mouse focus is another cause of pain. Suppose you are reading something off screen and typing it into what you thought was Word, but some lousy application has decided to pop up a dialogue box to tell you that it has successfully (or failed) to do blah blah… and has stolen focus so you have typed a lot of stuff into nowhere.

The default big fat borders around the windows in Windows applications are also a waste of screen real estate.

With Windows, compared to Mac OS X, there is a lot more “clicking OK” to be done.

However, with Windows you can install a Tweak-UI component called X-mouse or something that gives you focus follows mouse. There is also a Tweak-UI option that prevents applications from stealing focus. On Mac OS X I do not know of a way to do focus follows mouse.