When I work from home I miss having a second display alongside my work laptop. I could very well go get the monitor off the desktop, but it’s a right footer. Instead I wondered about whether it would be possible to use the screen on my home laptop as an extended display. I was doubtful, but I goggled/bonged on the subject and found a few interesting options. The one that really jumped out was MaxiVista.

Obviously I pulled down the demo version. This download is a Zip file containing two install files – there is a primary install to go on your main machine, and a secondary install to go onto any other machines you want to act as the extended displays. Again I was doubtful this was going to work and if it did I really didn’t think it would work all that well – especially over a wireless network. I was wrong and I was stunned by just how cool this was.

I’ve since found a few posts on the subject from the likes of Hanselman and SunPig. I’m wondering how I managed to get by without knowing about this for this long. Makes we wonder what else I’m missing out on?