March 2003
Beginner
432 pages
11h 30m
English
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Extending Your Screen Real Estate with Virtual Desktops
Stretch your screen real estate up to 100 times its size and organize different views of your workspace with virtual desktop software.
Ever wish that you had a larger monitor? While not everyone can afford the 23-inch Apple Cinema HD Display (http://www.apple.com/displays/acd23/), you can actually achieve the same effect (wow! factor not included) for as little as $0 to get . . . well . . . near to unlimited screen real estate!
CodeTek VirtualDesktop
The CodeTek VirtualDesktop (http://www.codetek.com/php/virtual.php) ($40; trial available) is an application that enhances your screen real estate through software emulation. It does so by creating virtual desktops, each containing whatever you put into it and organized how you left it last. Keep your writing (Word, BBEdit, Sherlock Thesaurus, and a browser window) on one screen, your mail on another, and coding (Application Builder, Interface Builder, Script Editor, Terminal windows) in still another. Switching between them is just a matter of a mouse click.
While the trial version allows for only two virtual screens, it’s more than enough to get the idea. Pay for VirtualDesktop and you can have up to 100 virtual screens!
Installing CodeTek VirtualDesktop is straightforward. Simply double-click on the application icon and you are ready to go. The first thing you’ll notice is a miniwindow known as the pager. The pager displays the virtual desktops available to you, organized ...
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