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The other day on ThinkGeek I saw they had something called a Mimo Mini. This is a small gadget, totally USB powered, and highly geeky (I think). This gadget is a USB powered mini monitor. At 7 inches diagonally, it adds a bit more screen real estate.

On a whim I decided to buy one. After making the purchase, and waiting for my delivery, I got it set up.

Setup is extremely easy. Run the installer, click OK a couple times, plug in the monitor, and that is it. There are some tweaks you can do to arrange where WinXP thinks it sits, but other than that, you can start using it right away.

On my main monitor I used to run a Rainmeter system display. I also had to run a small utility to block windows from maximizing over it. I re-arranged my Rainmeter skin to fit on the Mini, and now I can maximize on my main monitor again.

I also run the Task Mangler on there too. This allows me to keeps tabs on what is eating up the most amount of RAM (usually this is Visual Studio, or SQL Developer). I am also keeping the minimal version of iTunes there too.

TechNewsWorld has a review ( warning: advert splash screen ), where they suggest a few other interesting usages. Twitter client, photoshop palette holder, Yahoo Widget holder, are all good ideas.

I've had the Mimo Mini for less than a week, but already I am loving it. I keep it in landscape mode, but it can also be swiveled to portrait mode.