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Posts tagged “computer monitors”

Samsung's LED Backlit Monitor and Its Sweet Acrylic Base

Um. Yes, please. This monitor's been around since October, but we just discovered it and had to share. The 23-inch LED backlit monitor is less than 2-inches thick -- perfect for squeezing a home off...

How To Fix a Stuck or Dead Pixel
Home Hacks

Chances are sooner or later you'll experience the annoyance of a dead or stuck pixel on your display. You can always try to massage it back to life physically using a massage or tapping technique, bu...

5 Free Liberty of London Desktop Wallpapers

We're always on the lookout for beautiful desktop wallpapers that will highlight your home office as not only a place of work, but a place of beauty and inspiration. To promote their new line of Libe...

How To Make Your Home Office Green
Home Hacks

While living digitally has made us greener in some aspects it also has its eco drawbacks. From the amount of waste created to make all our digital doodads to the amount of power it takes to power t...

How To Make a Computer Monitor Frame
Home Hacks

Remember that series of adorable laptop sleeves made be a French duo? We thought, why not take their idea and make it a bit more utilitarian. We like the idea of accessorizing your computer, but it...

Upgrade a DIY Photo Booth with Tethered Shooting

Having our very own photo booth is something we've wanted ever since we saw Dave Navarro's vintage booth in a very old episode of Cribs. Home Hacks shows us that it doesn't take much money or muscle ...

i360 iMac Turntable: iWant It!

Attention over-sharers: Just because you see a new funny page every ten seconds on the Web doesn't mean that we all need you to try and turn your monitor around to show us every eleven seconds. We kn...

LG Color Pop W30S Displays

We're always envious that the European market for many products offers a wider selection of colours compared to the domestic market here. It's no surprise that the colour-loving Italian market would...

The Online Order That Made 72 Hours Feel Like Forever

These days, online ordering is an everyday occurrence, in fact it's the preferred method of shopping for many—so when my husband and I recently hit the "Order Now" button, we had 100% confidenc...

The ASUS Designo LS246H Rings Up a Nice Design

It's more than obvious that ASUS was aiming high(er) end with this new display, with a sophisticated black minimalist casing that conveys boutique tech. Despite the model name (couldn't they find a ...

BenQ V2400 Eco LED Backlight Display

There's a lot to like on paper about the green-tech spec BenQ V2400 Eco: energy efficient LED edge-lit backlighting, 1920 x 1080 resolution with HDMI for HD content, and a handsome slim design made fr...

Dell Introduces a Windows 7 Ready, Multi-Touch Display

Look ma, we can pinch and zoom! Swipe to reveal jump lists! For those who are looking for a "complete," visceral Windows 7 experience, Dell proposes you grab one of their new 22-inch LCD monitors that...

Packard Bell Announces Multitouch Computer Monitor

Touch screen technology has become the hot add-on for all things tech. From cell phones to digital music players to ATM machines, it's like companies can't get enough of your finger smudges on their ...

Going BIG with AMD Eyefinity Multi-Displays

"More" seems never enough when it comes to computer specs and monitor real estate. And that's the thinking behind AMD's Eyefinity Multi-Display system, which sets out to bring a truly ultra hi-def im...

gScreen Shows Off Dual Screen Notebook

We've posted about multi monitor set-ups a few times now. We know we need to jump on the bandwagon soon as blogging simply requires more screen space than our Macbook allows. A new laptop company, Al...

Cheaply Get Touch Capabilities for Your Laptop via USB Monitor

Touch screens are what most users really want. With Apple releasing their neat new mulit-touch touchpads for their MacBooks, the race is on to provide touch and multi-touch capabilities to users. Unti...

Philips LightFrame LCD Eases Eye Strain Thru Light Therapy

Philips designed the LightFrame 220XW9 widescreen LCD display in similar fashion to their line of Ambilight technology televisions with a peripheral lighting system which eases eye strain and perhaps...

More PC Desktop Space on Less Real Desktop Space

Life's better with multiple monitors. It's just a fact. You get tons of extra space to spread out toolbars and open up pages. But the trade off is that as you gain more virtual desktop space by adding...

15 Year Old Shocks Again
Upgrades Bedroom Office on Teenager Savings

click for more pics Remember that 15-year-old with the wicked bedroom office set-up? Well he just redecorated again! Lew needed a bigger desk and his TV was on its way out so he and his mom split the ...

Survey: What Are You Watching Hulu On?

We all know that both television shows and movies are moving away from discs and cable operators and towards the web. Even the cable companies know they have to come up with a way to jump on the 'net...

Close-Up: A Toronto Rental Gets an Overhaul
Before & After

click for more pics Jason Simmons recently moved into a 680 square foot apartment in Toronto and updated it with his own personal flare. As many of you renters already know, myself included, the amou...

Motion Sensing Energy Saving Monitor by Eizo Nanao

We make it a goal any time we walk away from our laptop+external monitor setup to not only put the system to sleep, but also to turn off the monitor to save energy. It's a small step, but we're all ab...

DIY Project: 20 Dollar Monitor Stand

click for more pics The bummer of working at an office, other than the commute and the occasional annoying co-worker, is that it's hard to make your cubicle really feel like your office space. Yes you...

New Laptop Screens to Cut Battery Use in Half

When One Laptop Per Child was announced it was hard to know whether or not the technological advances from the non-profit would be used outside the struggling countries they were developed for. If yo...

Flickr Finds: Fifteen Year Old's Impressive Bedroom Office

We don't know about you, but when we were 15 we could barely save up for a video game, let alone an entire workstation. Maybe we should have taken some lessons from this kid. Found on Flickr, Lewspei...