Brett_Tabke - 1:11 pm on Mar 21, 2007 (gmt 0)

Tip 1: is more of a hardware tip: a widescreen rotatable monitor.

1680 wide by 1050 high pixel resolution is nifty right? Rotate that the other way and make it 1680 high, and suddenly the ability to view text docs is significantly enhanced. I run three monitors with two in the wide format and one in the middle rotated to the tall format. The middle one with my email and text editor up all the time is my fav.
There are several commercial utils on the market that will rotate your screen.

Tip 2: Remote viewing from ultra or real vnc.
It is the ultimate sync system. View your desktop from any computer in the world. People complain about keeping email in sync - and some even stoop to lowly ;-) online web email to solve it. With realvnc or ultraVnc setup (both freeware open source), you are always working with "the real deal" and never have to worry about syncing your email...

Tip 3: another hardware one.
Take a screw driver and pry the caps lock key off all your keyboards. What a time saver that turns out to be. In 25+ years of computing, I have never needed to intentionaly press the caps lock key. (if you are feeling frisky/risky, you might pop off that windows logo key while you are at it). If you keep the windows key, it has one (and only one), good use - windows-D to show your desktop. You know, like pressing the desktop icon on the quick launch bar...