Connect laptop to desktop as second monitor
If you ever get envious of those cool graphic design guys with multiple monitors, ask yourself, "Do I have a laptop?" If you do, you can run a multimonitor setup of your own. I must credit my co-worker Rafe Needleman for this idea. He saw me pecking away with my laptop monitor up one day and said, "Why don't you use that as a second monitor?" After I told him to frack off, I realized it wasn't a bad idea. And it's uber easy. I'll show you both the Mac way and the PC way. We'll assume you have a setup something like this: a laptop, maybe one in a dock, hooked up to a monitor. OK. Let's start with Windows. You boot up, and you're probably in your desktop monitor.
Now here's a little hitch. I can't tell which monitor is which. Press identify, and numbers will come up on each screen. The other issue is my laptop screen became my primary monitor. That's not right. If this happens to you:
Voila! Now you have two monitors. You can configure it however you want. I like up and down. You can also look in your video driver to see if you can save profiles, so you don't have to reset it every time you turn on the computer. Now in a Mac, it's super easy.
And that's it. With either a Mac or a Windows laptop, you can now enjoy the extra screen real estate you already own.
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