Over the last week I've been looking at a lot of paper, statements for accounts etc and found it really difficult to manage with a laptop, so I've ended up being forced to use my desktop. So I'm now use to having dual screens and lots of things open at once, again.
Which normally I'd only be doing for an hour or so in the morning, which wasn't so bad.
Anyways, this morning I've been doing some client work and found the amount of stuff I can fit on the screen of a 14" screen laptop unbarable. So I thought I'd have a go at making things smaller to see if I could improve my situation.
I've turned my DPI down to 84% and found a default zoom level add-on for firefox, which has allowed me to set all pages to 80% zoom.
Also, I use a add-on which splits pages, so I could loads of pages on the screen.
This all seems to be working quite well, this is until I get eye strain later in the day.
Hopefully these measures and increased productivity will lead to the cash to buy a bigger screen laptop :)
Saturday 16 May 2009
Friday 15 May 2009
A 3rd unlucky technical day
I've been to my mothers today with our son, my plan like the previous two occasions to do some work on my laptop while having my mam look after my son.
The first time I tried, I brought a usb wifi dongle and a wap. I got the wap and my laptop setup fine. The put the dongle in my mams machine, however it didn't work with windows 98. I didn't have any other kit with me so I was stuck that day and got nothing done. Just to explain my mam and my son like to look at train pictures on google images, which keeps them both quiet and out of my hair ;)
My next attempt I brought my wap and had planned to bring an CAT5 / RJ45 network splitter cable, which I bought online and seemed like a great idea. However I forgot it and again had no more tech with me.
Today, I tried to plan for all eventuallities. I brought the splitter cable and an old hub. However, the splitter didn't work as I'd hoped. I had 2 and they both did the same thing, I must have mis-understood when i bought them, one machine would work fine but not the other.
So I thought, I'll just use the hub. However, I was short one network cable. Which by chance I was able to borrow from my mams next door neighbour. Great I thought. However, when I got all setup the hub only seemed to have one port which worked.
So again unlucky. I almost think that I'm not meant to do any work at my mams.
Not sure what I'll try next time, I've got an adsl 4 port router I think I might try.
Its just getting silly though :(
The first time I tried, I brought a usb wifi dongle and a wap. I got the wap and my laptop setup fine. The put the dongle in my mams machine, however it didn't work with windows 98. I didn't have any other kit with me so I was stuck that day and got nothing done. Just to explain my mam and my son like to look at train pictures on google images, which keeps them both quiet and out of my hair ;)
My next attempt I brought my wap and had planned to bring an CAT5 / RJ45 network splitter cable, which I bought online and seemed like a great idea. However I forgot it and again had no more tech with me.
Today, I tried to plan for all eventuallities. I brought the splitter cable and an old hub. However, the splitter didn't work as I'd hoped. I had 2 and they both did the same thing, I must have mis-understood when i bought them, one machine would work fine but not the other.
So I thought, I'll just use the hub. However, I was short one network cable. Which by chance I was able to borrow from my mams next door neighbour. Great I thought. However, when I got all setup the hub only seemed to have one port which worked.
So again unlucky. I almost think that I'm not meant to do any work at my mams.
Not sure what I'll try next time, I've got an adsl 4 port router I think I might try.
Its just getting silly though :(
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