Desktop users will probably question why someone would need a shortcut to turn off the monitor when the button to switch it off is just a few inches away. It does not really make much sense to turn off the monitor with a shortcut if you can reach the power button of the monitor from [...]

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There is still some confusion about the use of screensavers and I would like to explain it to those who do not know if it makes more sense to use a screensaver or to turn off the monitor. Screensavers were invented in a time to prevent phosphor burn-ins from images that were displayed for a [...]

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The biggest fear of webmasters - besides being hacked - is the fear that the website becomes unavailable and that all visitors will see the dreaded “Cannot connect” message in the browser. This is extremely harmful especially when you are a full time webmaster whose life (literally) depends on those websites.
No one can manually [...]

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Calibrating a monitor, be it LCD or CRT monitor, can be a tedious task. I for one have always doubts about the settings that I have chosen when setting up the monitor for the first time. Questions about the monitor’s brightness, the colors, contrast are not that easy to answer if you only have to rely on your eyes and have no test patterns that help you determine the correct settings.

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Most flat screen monitors these days come in sizes of 19”, 22” and 24” with a 16:9 ratio. The Samsung Syncmaster 2263DX LCD monitor is different. It does look like a normal 22″ flat screen monitor if it were not for the little 7-inch monitor that could be added on top or at a side of it. It’s a rather bold experiment in times where dual monitor setups become affordable to almost anyone.

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