1024 X 768. Most websites seem to look best (to me) at this resolution, same with artwork. Can't help you with second question, I don't have that kind of monitor.

This is not my "second childhood". I'm not finished with the first one yet.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

"I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather....not screaming in terror like the passengers on his bus." - Jack Handy