Once a week we dump out the reader mailbag and share handy reader tips with you. This week we’re looking at quickly resizing windows with a click, changing the default download directory in Windows, and some DIY coffee roasting tips.
Quickly Resize Any Windows with Sizer
Kalpesh wrote in with not one but two great tips. The first one helps when you want to quickly resize windows to set sizes:
We took Sizer for a spin. It’s tiny and delivers as promised. Run the application and anytime you right click on the lower right corner of an application window you’ll see a menu like the one in the screenshot above. It comes with those three values as defaults but you can right click on the system tray icon for Sizer and edit the sizes, remove them, and add in new ones.
Change the Default Location for Your Download Folder
Here’s Kalpesh’s second tip:
Thanks for the two-for-one special Kalpesh; both tips are quite useful.
Open your registry editor (go to the run box and type regedit) then navigate to this registry entry: “Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders” Look for the entry which has a value of “%USERPROFILE%\Downloads” and change the value to your location. In my case I changed it to “D:\Downloads”. Now you don’t have to worry about programs not remembering your alternate download location as the default value is where you want your files.
Educating Yourself About Home Roasting
Anil writes in with some coffee roasting tips:
Very informative, Anil. When we take on some DIY roasting around the HTG office we’ll definitely be revisiting these resources.
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