Make Better Use Of Your Widescreen Monitor

I own quite a few computers, 7 at the last count (oops 8). It all helps with testing but because I own so much hardware I don’t tend to spend a huge amount on each individual PC, usually no more than £500.

However by going cheap I’ve always had a little problem with my main work PC, well ever since I upgraded the monitor anyway. I knew I needed more screen real estate but because I’d only paid for a bog standard onboard graphics card I couldn’t have 2 monitors. So I did what I thought was best and bought a bloody great 23 inch widescreen monitor. It works at a ridiculous resolution, BUT (and it’s a big but) it didn’t actually help that much with my productivity. What I really needed was 2 monitors in one so that I could have for example my text editor and web browser open side by side, I can do it but it involves a lot of resizing and manually moving windows. I couldn’t be bothered most of the time and was just using my applications maximised as usual.

That was until last week when I came across a little application called Split View. It’s freakin amazing. It’s a nifty little windows application that lets you split your monitor into separate regions. You can then simply position applications to appear in whichever region you want. If you’ve got a widescreen monitor it is exactly like having 2 monitors in 1. Any window can be simply snapped to the left or right portion of the screen (you can decide how many pixels you want for each). I can’t over emphasise what a difference this makes to multi-application tasks.

A lot of people say that it’s the little things that can make the biggest difference to how much money you make online. Personally I’m not a big believer in that (give me big things like a lot more traffic any day!) but with this application I can honestly say that if you’re using a single widescreen monitor it will save you a shed load of time moving and minimizing windows. It’s not very often I come across a new program that changes the way I work but this does it for me, it’s an absolute little belter. There’s a fully functional free demo available so I’d suggest you go and give Split View a try.

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