Tutorials
Article | 11/01/2011
Connect a second monitor to your PC
A reader Maina wants to know how to connect a second (and possibly even third) monitor to his PC. He wants one for documents, another for his Web brow...
Article | 14/08/2010
How to use your TV as a monitor
Question: I often use my TV as a second monitor for giving presentations. My Windows 7 laptop normally operates at a 1920x1080 resolution, but changes...
Article | 30/07/2010
Make your own 'transparent' display
Once you've seen some amazing pictures of seemingly transparent LCD screens, you may want to create your own optical illusion. After researching the t...
Article | 20/05/2010
VGA, DVI or HDMI for a monitor connection?
Reader Mike ordered a new Dell system that came with a 21.5-inch LCD monitor. Although the monitor includes VGA, DVI, and HDMI inputs, it included onl...
Article | 13/05/2010
How to use your TV as a monitor
Here are your most likely options, from the best to the worst, if you want to hook up your desktop PC or notebook to your TV.
Article | 16/04/2010
A visual guide to display cables: DVI, D-Sub, ADC and more
Here's how to identify every important cable for use with computer monitors.
Article | 1/08/2009
Switch to full-screen view in your favorite apps
Monitor space is a terrible thing to waste. Yet most of us sacrifice valuable screen estate to omnipresent toolbars, which appear in our Web browsers,...
Article | 14/07/2009
Turn off your monitor by pressing a hotkey
Monitors, including desktop and laptop LCDs, consume a considerable amount of power. Yet most of us leave ours on and running all day (if not all nigh...
Article | 19/02/2009
Correct your monitor's colours
When I was a kid, I used to wonder if everyone saw the world in the same way. What if what I called "yellow" looked like green to someone else?
Article | 18/09/2008
Quadruple your fun (and productivity) with a four-monitor system
Admit it: You've lusted after the giant 30-inch desktop monitors you've seen in stores. Imagine what you could do with all that screen real estate, an...
Article | 9/10/2003
How to get true colours using Windows XP Pro
Working with visual digital media such as photography, video and graphics requires consistent and ideally, portable, colour models. Otherwise, what yo...
Article | 27/06/2003
Setting up dual monitors using Windows XP Home
Are you a power user who is always burdened with a cluttered desktop? So many programs open that they consume the entire task bar. You switch back and...
