Now it’s been a while since I’ve written a post here on lightenment. To be honest, I ran out of things to write about. I haven’t been purchasing too many gadgets lately. I apologize to the readers and hope to put posts up more frequently in the future. During the time of my last post I did pick up the Viewsonic VX2025WM monitor. I had been previously using my 12″ Powerbook G4 and a 15″ Samsung LCD, so the 20″ widescreen monitor was a pretty big jump for me. It was long overdue.

I have been using a Viewsonic VA721 monitor with a Power Macintosh G5 tower for light graphic work and web design/programming. On a typical day, I will work on sites built upon the LAMP architecture (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) and use the G5 for development and testing purposes. As far as 17-inch monitors go the Viewsonic VA721 has a typical 1280×1024 resolution and I try to build pages that still fit within 800×600 for those with smaller monitors. I usually have Firefox, Word, iChat, Photoshop, Navicat, Yummy FTP, Apple Server Monitor and the Apache, MySQL and PHP architecture on Mac OS X open at all times and this monitor could use some more real estate.