{"id":9057,"date":"2010-12-30T16:56:59","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T16:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/flashhacker_full-screen_flash_video_on_multiple_monitors.html"},"modified":"2010-12-30T16:56:59","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T16:56:59","slug":"flashhacker-full-screen-flash-video-on-multiple-monitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/flashhacker-full-screen-flash-video-on-multiple-monitors.html","title":{"rendered":"FlashHacker: Full-Screen Flash Video on Multiple Monitors"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the great pains of using multiple screens is if you choose to watch a full-screen video on one monitor and merely click on an application on another monitor, the full-screen video defaults immediately to a smaller view – as if you had requested the change to take place or hit the Escape button. I have never looked into what technical reason there is for this weird behavior but I did open with interest a recent email from Tom Keating which introduced me to a program called FlashHacker – thanks to a post<\/a> from LifeHacker.<\/p>\n

Hack this, hack that – can you trust this thing to work properly I thought? Well when you run the program you get a screen telling you there is absolutely no warranty in upper-case letters. Let’s just say my confidence level was not increasing as I proceeded.<\/p>\n

\"flashhacker.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

You are then presented with two options – either you Hack or Unhack your Flash. I read that sometimes you need to unhack before hacking to get things working.<\/p>\n

\"flashhacker1.jpg\"Well for me when I tried running the program, both options gave me an error. At first I thought it was because I have the 64-bit version of Flash which has caused other problems in the past or perhaps because I am running a Beta version of FireFox.<\/p>\n

But I then decided to close all browsers and try again and then it worked flawlessly.<\/p>\n

That was yesterday. This morning I got an error trying to open Flash videos on one of my browsers. The program suggested I reinstall Flash and I did so. A few seconds later Flash was working fine but not with the full-screen hack.<\/p>\n

I tried running FlashHack again and it stopped allowing me to run Flash in full-screen while working on another monitor. So instead, I took Tom’s advice and rebooted. Since the reboot, things have been working great.<\/p>\n

I have successfully tested FlashHacker with FireFox and Internet Explorer but Chrome didn’t seem amenable to the hack.<\/p>\n

One particular benefit for me is I have three large monitors on my desk and a 55 inch flat screen TV hanging in my office which is connected to cable television as well as my computer. I can now watch full-screen TV on the large monitor via my computer while working on my other monitors.<\/p>\n

Another thing you can now do is watch full-screen video on multiple monitors.<\/p>\n

To quote our Vice President (video<\/a>) – or maybe I shouldn’t – let’s just say this is a big deal.<\/p>\n

For those of you who want to be able to work while watching a movie or the news in full-screen on one of your monitors, FlashHacker is a godsend. Enjoy.<\/p>\n

The software which is free can be downloaded here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the great pains of using multiple screens is if you choose to watch a full-screen video on one monitor and merely click on an application on another monitor, the full-screen video defaults immediately to a smaller view – as if you had requested the change to take place or hit the Escape button.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,218,118,190],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9057"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}