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FireWire is fast
General, 4 star
USA
1559 Posts |
 Posted - 13 Jul 2002 : 22:17:52
I don't know if any of you people read MacAddict mag, but in the "Ask Us" section of the June 2002 issue, a person asked "Can I turn my monitor on its side to view the entire length of a document?" Buzz referred him/her to a piece of software called "Pivot" which basically "lets you rotate your desktop 90 degrees to a portrait-style view in System 7.1 - Mac OS 9.x"I tried it out using the Quadra 650 [Mac OS 8.1] and a MultipleScan 15. It works absolutely like a dream! The only problem I'm having is on the top right and bottom left, [when swivel stand is on the left hand side, not the bottom] there are red areas...any suggestions? But anyways, yeah...apparently its a 30 day trial...
http://www.portrait.com/DL_Portrait_/MP625USEA.hqx *edit* i just turned the monitor off for a couple of minutes, then back on again. no more color issues* *edit* back again...took a screenshot with DropStuff's PictoGuide open. Note the full page of text.
http://homepage.mac.com/fwiffer/pivot.jpg --------------------
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thelip
Full Member
USA
729 Posts |
Posted - 13 Jul 2002 : 23:05:16
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G4from128k
Full Member
USA
873 Posts |
Posted - 14 Jul 2002 : 05:20:48
Cool idea, but you might want to be a little careful about putting monitors on their sides. Monitors use passive thermal dissipation and the engineers that design them assume that heat rises (those silly engineers). In some monitors there are no ventilation holes on the sides (only on the tops and bottoms of the case). Laying the monitor on its side could cause a build-up of heat inside the case or around the components that have now ended-up on the top-side of the reoriented monitor. I'm sure that if your room is well ventilated and cool and the monitor is out in the open, you will have little trouble. But a hot stuffy room (say an un-airconditioned room with like 50 Macs all running at once) might be hard on a side-mounted monitor that is stuffed in some little cubbyhole. Obviously, if you smell the magic smoke escaping from of your monitor, turn it off and turn it right-side up. I'd hate to hear of an Macs (or members of this army) lost to fire! G4From128k by Day: Mild-Mannered Engineer and Trapeze(tm) Artist
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G4from128k
Full Member
USA
873 Posts |
Posted - 14 Jul 2002 : 05:31:17
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The only problem I'm having is on the top right and bottom left, [when swivel stand is on the left hand side, not the bottom] there are red areas...any suggestions?*edit* i just turned the monitor off for a couple of minutes, then back on again. no more color issues*
The red areas (others who try this trick might see other colors in other corners) is the effect of ambient (the Earth's) magnetic fields on the monitor. Many monitors have a "de-Gauss" button that fixes this (on other monitors de-Guassing only occurs when the monitor is cycled on-and-off). So if you want to have a more dynamic pivot configuraiton, look for the "de-Gauss" button and press it after every pivot to correct for the color distortions. (Note that on some monitors, the degaussing circuits have a recharge cycle so you may not be able to de-Gauss twice in a row very quickly.)Oh, and don't worry if pressing the deGaussing buttom makes the monitor emit a rather angry little buzz -- thats just the coils being juiced with an extra jolt of energy to create the high-intensity magnetic field that help demagnetize the monitor. Happy Pivoting, G4From128k by Day: Mild-Mannered Engineer and Trapeze(tm) Artist
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Trash80toG-4
NIGHT STALKER
USA
2899 Posts |
Posted - 14 Jul 2002 : 11:20:57
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Cool idea, but you might want to be a little careful about putting monitors on their sides. Monitors use passive thermal dissipation and the engineers that design them assume that heat rises (those silly engineers).
And just to make it all the more fun, the monitor I -do- have here with a fan to help the cooling... won't work with it! Of course, it's a portrait display - but 870x640 would be a pretty neat res all the same!. Looks nice on its side :D
yer a maniac!<theme from twilight zone playing in background mode> this is scary!  just this morning i was thinking about how two portraits would look one set on either side of a matched size 15" monochrome display with the same tube for a three page panoramic landscape display! </theme from twilight zone playing in background mode> we think too much alike, miss birthdaynadanadanadanamaniac!!!!!  jt  ™.
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Trash80toG-4
NIGHT STALKER
USA
2899 Posts |
Posted - 14 Jul 2002 : 12:08:07
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we think too much alike, miss birthdaynadanadanadanamaniac!!!!!
Not that there's anything wrong with that (cue seinfeld bassriff)
hey, maniac! can you imagine me NOT visualizing it? <rolleyes>they would bookmatch very nicely, a pair of dead ones and three fifteen inch color displays, move two of the tilt-n-swivels onto the left-n-right sides of the portraits (one each, not two on both, silly maniac!) a little bondo, a lil sandpaper-n-elbow grease and then some black or powerbook gray spraypaint and it'd be a KILLER monitor threesome! move the two swivel-less 15" color sets of guts into the dead portraits and you wouldn't even need special software and you could run them all at 1024 x 768! i especially like the way the tops would angle back as the new sides with the flat bottoms bottoms facing the middle display! check your mail, i sent you some info on bug workarounds, i think 16" should work in portrait mode. the portrait is actually a multiscan color display IIRC. dunno about the electronics end of it tho. jt ™.
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~Coxy
Leader, Tactical Ops Unit
Australia
2822 Posts |
Posted - 15 Jul 2002 : 07:45:36
The first thing civilians say when they see a portait monitor stashed somewhere: "Cool! Widescreen monitor!" ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit
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maclover5
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
Australia
5830 Posts |
Posted - 16 Jul 2002 : 03:25:32
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The first thing civilians say when they see a portait monitor stashed somewhere: "Cool! Widescreen monitor!" ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit
Mayor of NuBus City v3.0
HAR!™ Was it on its side or something? I'm sure though that if they really fired it up, they'd notice that its not quite what they're looking for..... -------------------------- Pizzabox LCs RULE!!!!!!! Warrior maclover5
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SiliconValleyPirate
Junior Member
United Kingdom
273 Posts |
Posted - 16 Jul 2002 : 06:05:27
That's pretty neat - I know a guy in London I buy off told me about this. Apparently it's a neat util for a Powerbook/iBook if you have a keyboard connector - you can stand it up like an open book and use a normal k/b with it stood up portrait stylee. Pretty neat!!It's nice also if you have a 15" LCD (generic VGA type for older Macs  ) as you can pivot those on their side easily. Not so good if, like me, you have a 2 channel .25dp (read - damn heavy but V.V.V.V.V.V. nice) 17" monitor - a tadge impractical to tip on it's side safely, esp. as it's on top of my 7500!! I should make a plywood rig for my 12" RGB display to tip it up protrait wise tho Well I'm off to get a cofee and a danish. This place rules --
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