How do I hook up a PC monitor to my Mac?

Five years ago, when I was young and foolish, I bought a PC. Last evening I dismantled it and the thought struck me that maybe I could use the perfectly good monitor as an adjunct to my FCE movie making. Perhaps I could display the browser on it and have all that prime acreage for my actual editing.
The monitor has two cables and at the end of one is a three point plug which even I can recognize is the gizmo one shoves into those ubiquitous sockets around the house to encourage the flow of (I think its called) electricity. The other cable end is a different matter. I tried to find it on the 'net so that I could name it for you, but no luck. The business part of the plug is a rectangle slightly narrower on one longer side than the other (you may guess that I never took geometry) and recessed inside it are 15 fine metal pins in three rows of five. This was attached by means of two screws into its female receptacle on the console.
You can see where this is going.
Given what I have, is there a way to connect this to my Mac, and if so, how do I do it?

That sounds like a good idea. Some people put the browser and timeline on one screen, and the canvas and viewer on the other. Or just the browser on one screen, and keep the rest of the windows on the other like you said. Really, you should align it in the way that is most conducive to your editing.
When you have both monitors connected, you can just drag the windows between the two monitors, and change their sizing by dragging the corners.
If you find an arrangement that you especially like, and want FCE to remember it for next time so you don't have to manually align it, you can save a custom window arrangement. For more information on how you do this look at [_*this preview*|http://books.google.com/books?id=2lMK4BCRvt8C&pg=PT34&lpg=PT34&dq=customwindow+arrangement+final+cut+express4&source=bl&ots=-mm87pX5Sw&sig=mHdSYSYSINOpopM-Bafkdfj82yM&hl=en&ei=3m8MSrOVLpms tgeO4Y2FCA&sa=X&oi=bookresult&ct=result&resnum=4#PPT34,M1|click here for preview] of Tom's FCE4 book on Google books, under the section *Window Arrangements.*
More useful tips like these can be found throughout his book, if you are interested.

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