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Week 4 in London - Got myself a Monitor Calibrator

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7 July 2011, Monday I ordered a Huey Pro display calibrator from Pantone. It arrived today. :) It was selling on Amazon UK for about £60+. There was a pro version and a regular version. It arrived in a bubble-wrapped  package. This is my second visit to the runners office two days in a  row. (Yesterday was hard disk collection). After work I went home and unwrapped the package. Only after I opened it pack and read the front of the box, I realise that the regular version was only for CRT displays, and the Pro version can be applied on LCD displays as well. :) I used it on YC's laptop, and my own Asus netbook. It works very well. There's a continual ambient light monitoring mode, where you leave the colourmeter beside your display, so it reads samples the ambient light, and adjusts your display so the colours stay the same even when the environmental lighting changes. You can also configure how often the colourmeter samples the environment light. The cheape