Comments on: I have a big monitor, help me fill it

Question: I have a big monitor, help me fill it

nitsuj — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:02:37 -0800

What are some good applications that take advantage of a big monitor?

I recently acquired a nice, big 24" Dell widescreen monitor to hook into my Macbook Pro (running OSX5.4) and rediscovered the joys of Google Earth. What are some other fun applications I should I try out now that I have the larger real estate?

Games are OK, I guess, but I'm looking more for interesting applications that are especially awesome when viewing on a ginormous screen. Thanks!

By: Fiasco da Gama

Fiasco da Gama — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:17:17 -0800

Stellarium.

By: cowbellemoo

cowbellemoo — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:24:05 -0800

Lightroom is pretty great on a big screen. Defcon is even better.

By: Fiasco da Gama

Fiasco da Gama — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:27:47 -0800

also: X-Plane, though it costs a bit and might be out of your video card's league.

By: rokusan

rokusan — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:15:00 -0800

I know you blew off games, but good old Civilization III* is hard to beat on a 30 (or 24) inch monitor.

It's good to be King when you can see the whole Empire.

(What's that? Civ IV? Get away from me, foul peasant. Civ III is perfection.)

By: Thorzdad

Thorzdad — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:17:40 -0800

Any graphics program (Photoshop, Illustrator) is a joy to use on a large screen. Mostly because you have room to park your palettes and still have screen space to work on the image.

Of course, we're talking actual work, though.

By: turgid dahlia

turgid dahlia — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:25:07 -0800

The Electric Sheep screensaver.

By: lastobelus

lastobelus — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:45:49 -0800

I find textmate is particularly awesome on a 24" monitor, especially when I have another 24" monitor to run iterm & a browsor on.

By: limited slip

limited slip — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:15:52 -0800

My 24" screen got me back into playing games, Half Life 2, Quake Wars, and Portal do look great on my imac 24" screen. Don't worry about the latest and greatest graphics card, my two year old nvidia 7600 GT plays all of the above games just fine.

Seconding graphics apps, Photoshop, especially in full-screen mode.

By: The World Famous

The World Famous — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:36:16 -0800

Pro Tools. It is the reason that I wish I had a big monitor and that I covet my friend's completely insane giant LCD TV as Monitor setup.

By: JJ86

JJ86 — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:10:22 -0800

Autocad. It's even more impressive with dual monitors.

By: vkxmai

vkxmai — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:25:46 -0800

I also just got the 2408WFP. Sometimes I turn it on the side and read e-pa pers.

By: LuckySeven~

LuckySeven~ — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:19:00 -0800

Microsoft Flight Simulator, Corel Painter, Aperture.

By: pmbuko

pmbuko — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:00:49 -0800

Filling a big screen is only half the fun. The other half is arranging multiple related programs so that you can use all of them without overlaps. (In the olden days, this was called tiling.)