![]() That's with BetterSnapTool.Ĭombine that with me matching Mac's hot corners to buttons on my mouse and I'm flying to the desktop, other windows, etc. You can change the font, size, color, everything of each snap area. What's cool is that's how it's actually color coded too. ![]() So the left side is either a full height browser or 3 other apps, depending on what I'm doing and how many browsers I need. I have a text file I use for notes next to it, and under that is a half-tall region where I can keep other browsers open or Youtube or whatever. Then the left area usually has under the main big window some areas for Skype / iChat / Slack, whatever is needed at the time. So I have it split almost into thirds, but the Center is a bit wider than the Left & Right areas. If I drag the window's tool bar anywhere into the little boxes, it will snap into the big box area and fill it out. I set it up to where I hold Control when dragging a window and the little boxes appear. The little box layout is just a smaller version of the big layout. Each little box has a big box of the same color. So what we have here are the small boxes, called the Snap Areas, and big boxes called Window Areas. I have just at tiny bit of cable management to do that was waiting on me to get the monitor, and then I'm set up all the way. My new office space is so huge and comfy. I've had this for about two days and my productivity is literally through the roof.Īnyways, I had to share. You drag a window into that area, and then tell it where to snap to and how big the window should be. It creates areas you can color and label however you want. I can't take a screen shot of it or I'd show how I set it up. Even if I scramble it all it takes about 5 seconds to snap all my windows back in place. So I created my own custom workspace now that stays completely consistent. It has the same features as every other option out there which I turned off to use the features that it offers that the others don't, where you can design your own "snap areas." It's 100% free of constraints, no grids or anything. It's as good as the non-matte versions.Īnother tidbit for anyone on a Mac is I bought the software for around $2.99 called BetterSnapTool. Also the matte surface is nothing like they used to be, if you want no glare. The colors are vibrant, calibrated out of the box. And these panels have improved so much since I purchased 10 years ago or so. What's killer with this is how crisp the images are at 111 PPI instead of the 92 PPI I was at. You can see how much bigger the screen is physically too, also compared to three. I can't get a good picture due to how much backlighting I'm getting (I moved recently and don't have curtains up yet). So really there was only one option at the end of the day, the LG 38UC99. The funny thing is, the two other companies that joined LG in the 38" ultrawide world were using LG's panel. More time went by and the prices dropped from around $1500 to $1000 and a couple more companies jumped in the game. But that's 4k resolution with less height, but the 21:10 aspect ratio is how they film movies these days. Time went by more and finally there were 38" ultrawides at 3840 x 1600p with about 111 PPI. Time went by and they pushed out 34" ultrawides at 2460 x 1440p, which meant they'd be a tad taller than one 24" widescreen but have far more screen space due to the bump in resolution. That means the end result would be a wider screen that's less tall than the 24" widescreen. I saw what companies were doing with the Ultrawides (versus widescreen) and was excited but they started with around 27", 29" inch options at 1080p which meant they would be the same "pixels per inch" quality and not really offer me too much more room because those are diagonal measurements. Plus keeping them aligned and not crooked was annoying to me. It was a nice boost in productivity but those problems were a hindrance too. You get "boxed in" and can't quite fit two browsers at the proper width and can't have them halfway across to the next screen because they get cut in half. The main two issues with having three of those is that I really didn't use the outer 2/3rds of the left and right screen due to how much pivoting you had to do in your chair and then you don't use the space on the center screen as effectively as you can becasue of the bezels. Then monitor technology started changing. I got a massive productivity boost and never thought about it again for like 8 years. I remember when I had one and bought 2 more with those monitor arms. ![]() Those are 24" Acer widescreen monitors at 60 Hz refresh rate and 1920 x 1080p. ![]()
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