HOW DO YOU MAINTAIN YOUR PUBLIC COMPUTERS?

The MaintainIT Project, from TechSoup and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has tips and techniques for dealing with technology. There are free “cookbooks” to download. The first two are A Cookbook for Small and Rural Libraries and Recipes for a 5-star Library. Also available are reports from individual public libraries on their experiences with IT.

URL: http://maintainitproject.org/

GEEK ONLINE

The How-To Geek is a useful site if you don’t have your own computer guru handy. There are short articles on subjects such as: increase size of Windows Vista taskbar previews, change Outlook startup folder, change the default font in Excel 2007, and more (many of which I can’t even understand the description, much less the answers). Not everything is about Microsoft, either; there are hints for Foxfire, Apple, Linux, and other platforms (though most are MS, probably since we need the most help with it). You can even subscribe through RSS to get notice of the latest additions.

URL: http://www.howtogeek.com