There is a great chance that some of you were also annoyed of Windows miserable system color dialog. Especially if you are doing graphics stuff you might have prayed for a better replacement or that MS will fix that thing.

Yesterday i stumbled upon the Jovian Color Picker at one of my favourite 3d forums. There was only one thing that was not working perfect which fixed author Ken Nign meanwhile (!) that i purchased it after checking the trial for a few hours. Give it a try if you need also a better color picker that can load and save palettes, supports a library of colors, can pick from screen or image, supports RGB, HSB, Kelvin, wavelength and web colors.



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colonelz

One more vote for the Razer Lachesis.  :Thmbsup: And also one goes to the Intuos 3 from Wacom for graphics stuff.

Since the first Razer i bought several years ago the brand is my favourite choice. The Razer Boomslang was a excellent gaming mouse in the past and it's successors Diamondback and Lachesis are also fine for daily work. If you worked some days with one and when you are familiar with it's sensitivity you stay. I think it's something like working with trackballs. I don't like them but they are also a bit special from handling and if you are familiar working with them you prefer them instead of moving mice.

I don't like working with cordless mice because normally they are to heavy. I liked a friends Logitech VX Nano a little, but not so much for a change.

I switched to widescreen about a year ago. Before i used two 19" displays and was happy with them. The switch was also an upgrade in size to 24" and made a huge positive impact for some programs. Eclipse, Photoshop and some of my 3D programs profit really from that step ahead. If you ever worked with your favourite IDE on a big sized widescreen, you will never go back ( this does not apply to VI  :) ). And as mentioned before: Only the native resolution assures crystal clear quality.

For habit reasons i also wanted to attach one of the previously used 19" but that wasn't as easy as i thought. It was not possible to attach both LCD's to one graphics card, because it cannot support 1920x1200 and 1280x1024 at the same time. The memory of the card with 768MB shouldn't be the problem, it must be a specification side effect. :huh: Therefore i had to upgrade to a second graphics card. Now i have two nVidia cards inside the PC, one for each monitor and doing their job without a hassle.