So Microsoft is making this big push toward auxillary displays for laptops, however I've always thought this could be a useful feature for PCs as well. There are lots of notification type apps that are useful at-a-glance but waste valuable real-estate on your primary display. The 770 could be a great aux display with proper software.

Innobec makes an application that does pretty much exactly what I'm talking about. Check out SideWindow. It treats a PDA as a secondary display allowing you to drag various windows on to the PDA's screen. Pretty neat.

Anyone know of any software I could muck around with that might bring similar functionality to the 770?

Well, the main thing is that you have to do the USB host conversion mod mentioned elsewhere in this forum, so that you can connect to the 770, and access its storage, while it is still connected. Then really, it is a case of modifying the desktop/settings. I think, really what would help is something that 'handled' the desktop for you. For example, in Windoze, if you drag a file to the c:\windows\desktop\ folder (in some versions of Windoze; I know about the multi-user folder setup), it will appear on the desktop. Something like that might work.

Looks like I beat RemoteUser to the punch on this one. With an XServer running off of your PC, you can have the 770 running the 'sidebar' app in question... and it'd be interactive.

Wouldn't this do the reverse, of having the 770 display output on to the main PC? Or are there ways to get an X Server running on the 770 and displaying the reverse? I guess this brings up an alternative of just using VNC or RDesktop on the 770 to display the main PCs screen. Although, some foolery would be needed to make it a non-visible portion of the PC's screen.

Nevermind that! I just did a bit of searching and see what you mean:

http://www.internettablettalk.com/wi..._the_Nokia_770

This might do the trick!