I saw your article on multi monitors and it was very interesting for me

specially your remarks “I found a way to turn that laptop into a second external monitor though, and it didn’t require any extra hardware.”

I am facing the same situation and I want to use my old laptop to be a dual monitor for my Photoshop / Lightroom application

Can I get your advise how to do it (without enter to programming status)

I would like to use my laptop screen to display the tools of the Photoshop

My main computer is running XP and it is not a new computer and the video card is Intel on board

Thank you

Hi there. The only software I know of that does that is MaxiVista. It’ll work perfectly for what you describe.

It’s not great, however, at updating bitmaps. In other words, you wouldn’t want to use it as your main Photoshop display (especially while doing transformations), and it might be a bit slow if you use it for Lightroom previews.

Well, give it a shot and let me know how it worked for you.

Tony

Came across an article you wrote about converting old laptops to extra monitors. Interesting. My situation differs slightly however and I was wondering if you had any tips. I currently have 2 identical dell inspiron 5100 laptops with max ram and pentium 4′s. They are sweet machines, and I use a program called synergy to share one usb keyboard and mouse between both laptops, so I never have to forward on my couch (I like to keep the screens about 4-5 feet away). This way I utilize the full processing power of both machines. My question is, is there an app out there that will allow me to drag and drop files from one desktop to the other across the network? I already have the mouse/keyboard sharing, so why not drag and drop ? I know I could network share certain folders and manually transfer data, but drag and drop would be really sweet. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance!

-Joe

Sure: MaxiVista and KaVoom! (The exclamation mark is theirs). They both support a shared clipboard between the computers (which Synergy also does) and copying files with drag-and-drop. MaxiVista is $50 and KaVoom is $40, though. I’ve used them both and like MaxiVista better.

I haven’t used Input Director, but it claims to allow sharing files between computers, and it’s free. Give it a shot and let me know how it works, please.