From the category archives:

Multiple Monitors

After nearly two years of leaving my desktop and a 3 monitor setup behind, I’m back to 3 monitors + 1, four screens in total, all running from my MacBook Pro. My My Multimonitor Setup: Three Screens For One Computer post explains how I used to run three monitors from my Windows XP desktop. When I [...]

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With my desktop out of action, I’m currently on my new MacBook Pro as I’ve written, making use of its internal screen to run things on the Mac side and one of my external screens to run Windows apps. It annoys me that my two other monitors as you can see [...]

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See, Chris Pirillo is

all excited because he has two widescreen monitors. I mock your setup, Chris! As readers know, I’m a long time multiple monitor user. A few months ago, I went for a widescreen in the middle:

It rocks. It rocks mainly because when using outlook, I can have folder view on the left, item view in the [...]

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I’m a big multiple monitor fan, and I’ve covered my own setup in the My Multimonitor Setup: Three Screens For One Computer post here on Daggle. Today, I came across an awesome gallery of other multiple monitors in action. Ultramon hosts the gallery here. I just added my own setup, as you’ll find

here. You can then easily work your way [...]

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Now here’s a different multimonitor setup — one hooked up to an exercise treadmill. The Threadputer, as it’s called, looks pretty cool. Venture capitalist Brad Feld says he can work well on it even when running. It did get me thinking about doing the same, but I do a lot of typing. Feld does have a keyboard on his setup, but [...]

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My old house was made of cob, which is like a British adobe. The walls were made of chalk, mud, horse hair and the odd bit of horse poo. You don’t hang heavy things off a cob wall without a lot of thought. In my new house, it’s good old brick, which got me to thinking that I [...]

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Ashley Friedlein over at E-consultancy saw the whole "I’ve got three monitors; Bill Gates has three monitors" thing and raises the odds. His company gets people onto nine monitors as quickly as possible, he

writes. Plus he even has a picture:

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Blog readers know I’m a multimonitor fan. Two screens aren’t enough for me – three is the magic number, as I’ve written in My Multimonitor Setup: Three Screens For One Computer. I’m not alone. Apparently, Bill Gates thinks three is the way to go as well, as he

writes in Fortune today:

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Dave Naylor was asking me today on our Daily SearchCast podcast about whether he should stick with one monitor or jump to two. My response? Go for three! I’ve used three monitors for about two years now, and I’d never go back. It all started when I bought a new computer with [...]

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