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Rotate your screen on Tiger

Paul Thurrott's Internet Nexus: Apple and Intel: A tale of rumors and truths

"Too, there's a hidden display option that lets you orient the screen in landscape mode in Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger," a clue that such a device is on the way, I was told by others. (However, I can't get this secret option to work because my PowerBook doesn't support it.)"

I was intrigued by this so I tried to figure it out. It's easy!

Quit System Preferences (if it's running)
Launch System Preferences
Hold Down the Option Key
Click on the Displays icon

You'll see a popup for rotating the display... Standard, 90, 180 or 270. I've tried 90 and 180 and both worked! I wonder if it'd be bad for my powerbook to run it upside down... then I could build a nice stand for the PowerBook so it could run upside down and I could put a keyboard on the table where the bottom of the PowerBook (ie: its keyboard) would normally be. It would kinda suck to have all the cables hanging down but maybe the stand could have some port repeaters in it.