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More useful dual-screen tips (Windows)

I can now chuck “calibration loaders” in my startup items (usually added when you install calibration software) in favor for using a powertoy for Windows XP.

It’s called the Microsoft Color Control Panel Applet. It’s free, and it’s designed to enable single-card users to load separate color profiles for multiple displays. The operative term here is single-card because if you have two video-cards, or are on a Mac, then you probably won’t have to worry about this. If you’re on a WindowsXP 32bit machine however, and are using a dual head card which is common in gaming GPUs, then you probably will have to deal with this.

Simply download the applet and install it (requires the .NET framework). It will then be available as a control panel applet as seen in the picture above.

After you add/install/load and set the default profiles you created for each monitor (with whatever calibration software you have), simply create a shortcut with the following target path (make sure you include the quotes):

“:\Program Files\Pro Imaging Powertoys\Microsoft Color Control Panel Applet for Windows XP\WinColor.exe” /L

Save the shortcut, and put it into your startup folder and you’re set. It should load the separate profiles natively on startup.

Now if only they update that to support Windows XP 64-bit.

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Little color change

Literally, I changed the color scheme of the site a little. So little, you might even be wondering what the hell I changed.

I dropped the traces of blue (headers, etc.) in favor of green just so it would gel with the rest of site. No, this has nothing to do with the school I’m partial to (come to think of it, i wonder if it was a subliminal action that I started with blue and green as the color combination – which doesn’t make sense design-wise)

Anyways, I had to drop one or the other, and I already had too many green hues in my stylesheet (gradients, the calendar, the alternating table colors), so it made more sense to change the little blues here and there, rather than convert a ton of greens.

I kept the old images though, I could put it back if people say the old style looked better.

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Browsers, etc.

I felt compelled to post this as Nono mentioned me in his recent post… which could lead people to misinterpret some stuff.

What I said was correct though, so no change is necessary in his entry, but I just had to qualify something I had said, something which I think may be interpreted wrongly by those who don’t know (or be slammed by those who do hahahaha). Also, to reiterate what I posted as a comment.

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