My Quandry
I'll tell you my problem, and then you're going to solve it for me, capiche? I just moved my room around a bit (I don't want to get into details as my room is hard to exaplin, but I'd say it's a good change for a few reasons), and I figured perhaps I should take other considerations into account for my general comfort.
One such aspect of my comfort involves my frequent use of my computer and the data is displays for me. Currently my desktop is set to 1280*1024 (the native resolution for 17 " and 19" monitors), and it is difficult to read text, which is something I read quite often.
A few non-optimal solutions exist. Firstly, I could lean in and/or squint to read, but my eyesight isn't getting any better as I age. Secondly, I could change my desktop resolution to something lower -- likely 1024*768. AFAIK, this would make everything seem bigger and easier to read. Unfortunately, this would put my monitor into a non-native resolution, possibly skewing up some other stuff. Thirdly, I could just increase the font size of firefox. Unfortunately this doesn't affect all text (consider text in pictures), and it also makes some sites' templates look hideous (text running beyond edges and such).
I think I'll knock my res to 1024*768 for a while and see if there's much of a positive or negative difference.
Listening to... Cream - Dance the Night Away
Link of the moment... Very nice entry on native resolution
One such aspect of my comfort involves my frequent use of my computer and the data is displays for me. Currently my desktop is set to 1280*1024 (the native resolution for 17 " and 19" monitors), and it is difficult to read text, which is something I read quite often.
A few non-optimal solutions exist. Firstly, I could lean in and/or squint to read, but my eyesight isn't getting any better as I age. Secondly, I could change my desktop resolution to something lower -- likely 1024*768. AFAIK, this would make everything seem bigger and easier to read. Unfortunately, this would put my monitor into a non-native resolution, possibly skewing up some other stuff. Thirdly, I could just increase the font size of firefox. Unfortunately this doesn't affect all text (consider text in pictures), and it also makes some sites' templates look hideous (text running beyond edges and such).
I think I'll knock my res to 1024*768 for a while and see if there's much of a positive or negative difference.
Listening to... Cream - Dance the Night Away
Link of the moment... Very nice entry on native resolution
Labels: computer
2 Comments:
I have 2 solution for you:
1: Get a CRT. They still have better image quality in general, and no native resolution. Sure they are bigger, but how often do you really carry your monitor around?
2: Ditch firefox and switch to the superior browser known as Opera. Its zoom feature magnifies everything on the page, including images
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Anonymous, at 8/03/2006 11:24 PM
:O Opera? Superior???? When did this happen ;)?
Seriously, my experience with Opera is that it's close to garbage. There are some decent features, but I wouldn't get it.
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Anonymous, at 8/04/2006 8:23 AM
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