Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Make Apps Always Open Maximized

From the How-To-Geek. It can be annoying when opening an application and having to resize or maximize the screen. This can be especially annoying when you want to see all of the data in an app like Access or Excel.

To fix it all you need to do is right-click on the application shortcut and select Properties. Under the Shortcut tab change the dropdown next to Run to Maximized.

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Advise for Computer Backup

Remember: it's not if your hard-drive fails, it's when. This article highlights various backup strategies. The Dropbox online backup service is worth considering for your precious documents.