I want to tell you about how the Gefen USB to DVI adapter has changed my life. No not really, but still this thing is really cool. I will let you read the real reviews here.
So I got this thing because I do a lot of communicating at work through email and instant messenging and I was getting a little stressed out, with windows popping up all the time, while I was trying to work. A couple of years ago, I added a second monitor to my desk, which was totally awesome. If you have never tried 2 monitors, you really need to give it a shot. All of the extra screen real-estate is very helpful. It allows you to not necessarily get twice as much done, but you do seem to work more efficiently because you don’t have to juggle everything.
If you know me, you know I have a tendency to have several windows open at once. In fact, I have 12 windows open right now. In addition to that, I have 2 different IM applications going, which puts me on 8 IM networks at any given time, plus twitter. I have dreamed of what it would be like to have more than 2 monitors. I think anyone who saw the matrix probably has. But how do you do it? Well, if you have a real computer, you can just get more video cards, and interconnect them. This is obviously extremely expensive, and is not really an option on a work laptop. So you can imagine, when I saw this USB to DVI thing I was like whoa! But I was skeptical as well. There’s a lot of data that has to be sent for video, and I didn’t really think a little usb device, would have enough bandwidth to handle it. There is at least one review that shows some video, where they dude is moving something between his usb screen and his normal screen. You can see a little lag in the video. I was a little worried about this, until Jeff pointed out that the computer in the video is an intel celery processor. So I got one.
And it has blown me away, I mean changed my life. Eh whatever. It’s really cool. It plugs in usb, has a little tiny driver, and its good to go. The biggest monitor I have is 1280×1024 and I was able to watch full screen video on it without any problems. The monitor shows up in the Windows display properties just like any other standard monitor. Now of course I have to cheat a little. I found this program a little while back called UltraMon. It is for computers that have multiple displays. It allows you to setup profiles, and setup screen savers and wallpapers and stuff for multiple monitors.
Straight up, next level bullshit. 
