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Should You Rotate Your Monitor?

Widescreen monitors have largely replaced the clunky box monitors of ten years ago. While they’re particularly useful for avid movie watchers and for streaming videos online, they are not without their downsides. However, what most people don’t know is that many of these widescreen monitors can be flipped. Here are a few benefits of flipping your widescreen monitor into a vertical position. Rotating your monitor will reduce the amount of whitespace on the page when you’re surfing the web. The visible page is longer, and can fit more text onto the page. Rather than seeing those wide columns of background color at the side of your article, you’ll see more images and text in one glance, reducing the amount of...

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Three Reasons You Need a Wall Mount!

If you’ve gone to the trouble of replacing your standard computer monitor to a LCD flat screen model, isn’t it time you upgraded the mount as well? At Monumental Mounts, we have the right mount for your screen. However, choosing between our options can be difficult. Here are a few reasons you should consider an articulating monitor wall mount for your work area. Space Saving Your monitor takes up space when left on your desk. If you’re lucky enough to have a large work area, this might not be an issue. However, for those working on a small desk, space is at a premium Mounting your monitor on the wall behind your desk frees up the surface area, giving you...

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The Pitfalls of Using Multiple Large Monitors

We’ve talked a lot about the benefits of multiple monitors. They increase productivity, let you multi-task with ease, can even help declutter your workspace. While many people have jumped on the multiple-monitor bandwagon, we’ve started to wonder if it’s possible to have too much of a good thing? Let’s take a look at some of the pitfalls of having multiple large monitors. The Lost Cursor One of the most frustrating things we hear about is people having such a large setup that they frequently lose track of their cursors. Depending on the size of your monitors and the number you use, it can be easy to lose track of your cursor’s location as you switch to a different screen. While...

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The Benefits of Multiple Monitors for Creatives, Part Two

In our last blog, we looked at two different types of creative professionals who could benefit from multiple monitors: musicians, and graphic designers. Here, we take a look at two more. Web Designers  If you are a web designer and aren’t already using multiple monitors, what are you waiting for? The ability to have your code up on a dedicated screen, while having the site you are working on, research, or design elements up on another is priceless. It will give you a huge boost to your productivity. Writers Another group of creatives that would greatly benefit from a multiple monitor mount setup is writers. At first glance, it may seem like a writer only needs one screen: one for...

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The Benefits of Multiple Monitors for Creatives, Part One

Nearly everybody that works with a computer can benefit from using our multiple monitor mounts. There is one class of professionals that will see a greater boost than most, and that is the creative. In this blog and the next, we will look at four different types of creative professionals who would benefit from multiple monitors. Musicians If you are a musician, you probably already realize the multiple advantages you gain from having a second monitor. Whether you are writing, recording, editing, or mixing, a second monitor gives you the screen space to have multiple programs open at the same time, saving you time and frustration. Once you spend time using a second monitor for your musical endeavors, you’ll never...

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