One application that I look for every so often is a screen measuring application. Developing on the web, I often find myself in need of being able to measure how big something on the screen is in pixels. It's strange that I have not yet found anything that truly suits my needs and workflow.
What I usually end up doing is taking a screenshot of the screen and opening it in Irfanview to measure it. This isn't exactly efficient.
What I would really like is something that sits on true simply in the system tray, and activates only upon pressing a specific hotkey. When I push the hotkey, only then would it take a screenshot of the screen and display it for me, whereupon I could use some measuring tools on it....
more
After my debacle with the monitor this week, I decided that I needed a new screensaver. Primarily I was thinking of disabling the login display when returning to the OS from the screensaver, but I have been thinking I wanted something more for a while now. And since my new monitor does not recover from power-save mode, I need something good to prevent the burn-in that I saw on the monitor at Best Buy.
I've been using the basic My Pictures slideshow screensaver that comes with Windows XP for a while. I have a lot of pictures, and the kids like to see my computer showing them photos of us on all of our vacations. Abby actually asked me why I had changed my screensaver once, which prompted me to restore the photo one.
The thing is, the one that comes with Windows is pretty lame. It'll only show photos on one monitor at a time, unless you turn on the "animation" feature, which simply drags the single photo across all three screens very slowly. I'm looking for something that does a little bit more....
more
