Tag: FULLSCREEN

I have a thing for full-screen text editing. I use WriteMonkey for my creative writing needs, and VIM in a full-screen PuTTY session for my Web development work. That being the case, I'm all over the monospace, dark-background, focused editing scene. OmmWriter attempts to take that aesthetic and make it somehow more spiritual, with three picturesque backgrounds and ambient background audio ...

Flash Player 10.2 is finally out of beta! We've covered this upgrade before, and after three months of beta testing, Adobe feels ready to roll this one out as an official update. The key features that make Flash 10.2 a worthwhile upgrade are: Proper full-screen support for multi-monitor systems: At long last, users with more than one monitor would be able to play a full-screen video on ...

These days, you no longer have to be an esoteric nerd to sport a dual-monitor setup. Heck, many of us use three monitors, and some have been known to use entire walls. Now, when you have such a setup and try to watch a YouTube video in full-screen, you quickly discover an irritating fact: While you're watching a video in full-screen on one monitor, any click on another monitor collapses the video ...

WriteMonkey is the best full-screen text editor available for Windows today. There, I said it. And now, the first preview for Version 2 has been released, with a whole bunch of enhancements and goodies: Info bar colors: WriteMonkey has a very handy infobar at the bottom (or top) of the screen, showing all sorts of text statistics, as well as the current time. You can now easily make this bar ...

To use a cliche, the best just got a bit better. WriteMonkey, one of the very best full-screen freeware text editors for Windows, has now been released as 0.9.9 Final. This final version was preceded by no less than three release preview versions, so I expect it to be quite bug-free (also, I have been writing all of my posts using WriteMonkey for the past few months, and it has yet to crash ...

If you've got a huge display that you want to set up as a news ticker, GlowDart is worth a look. It's Web-based, so it doesn't matter which OS you're running. It's got huge text headlines that are readable from a distance, and it scrolls vertically. Light and dark themes are both available. The coolest thing about GlowDart is the ability to add your Twitter or Facebook account to it, so you ...

I have a thing for full-screen editors. I also have a thing for Markdown syntax. I wanted to start writing some of my texts using Markdown in a text editor. Amazingly enough, I was not able to find a Win32 command-line implementation of Markdown. Well, WriteMonkey saved the day. That's just one of the features of this utterly incredible full-screen editor. It's got everything I need for writing, ...

The Google Chrome browser is designed so that the toolbars take up as little space as possible, letting the web pages you're looking at take up most of your screen real estate. The bookmarks toolbar is easily collapsible, and the tab bar is all the way at the top of the browser window, where you'd normally have a program title bar. But while the default Google Chrome view takes up less screen ...

I use Firefox's Full Screen mode about once a week--when I get my Homestar Runner fix. (I recommend this add-on for that.) But if you use it more often, you might appreciate Autohide, an add-on that lets you customize Full Screen mode to get the most out of your screen real estate. As the name implies, you can set Firefox's toolbars to automatically disappear from sight when you're not using them ...