by Shane Grantham | Nov 12, 2023
I hear a lot of new stories on Artificial Intelligence and how it’s so helpful for computing. I’ve also heard how it’s bad for our privacy and how it’s helped those in charge predict our behavior. It can be used to create fake articles and...
by Shane Grantham | Nov 6, 2023
My wife is part of the Fort Wayne Komet Hockey organization. They provide pocket schedules to fans and have them in boxes for businesses to display at their locations. I want to help them out by getting them into your hands for you or your organization. I’ve...
by Shane Grantham | Oct 29, 2023
My company doesn’t have a landline phone because I’m out and about much of the day and no would be able to answer it. I do have a smartphone and this is my main communications device. I can answer it as I’m at the gym or driving or at a...
by Shane Grantham | Oct 20, 2023
One of the features of Microsoft Windows 11 I read about last year was intriguing. It’s Linux running as a Virtual Machine (VM) called the Linux subsystem. It can be installed from the Microsoft Store and I tried earlier this year without any success. I love...
by Shane Grantham | Oct 8, 2023
Like many of you I use computers often and sometimes have many programs and web browsers open. Many years ago I discovered a shortcut for closing programs. I probably read it in a computer magazine. It’s a keyboard sequence of two keys: Alt and F4. You hold...
by Shane Grantham | Oct 7, 2023
When I first got notified of winning a Fort Wayne Readers choice, the August email message said I was a finalist and it also said my company was 2nd. On Sept 30th, I learned there were five finalists for three places in my category of Computer Repair Store. This...
by Shane Grantham | Sep 30, 2023
A few months ago I got an email from Fort Wayne Newspapers. My company was nominated for a Readers Choice award in the category of Best Computer Repair Store. There was a total of eight companies in the category so I didn’t think I had a chance to win or get...
by Shane Grantham | Sep 27, 2023
One of my long-time clients called me this week with a computer problem. When they turned on their monitor and computer, the windows 10 screen briefly appeared and then disappeared. We assumed the monitor died. We scheduled a service call for the next day so I could...
by Shane Grantham | Sep 24, 2023
One of the security suggestions I always see from professionals is to keep your operating system (Microsoft Windows, Apple OS. Linux) up to date. Desktop operating systems usually have an automatic system of doing this or alerting the user to updates. One thing that...
by Shane Grantham | Sep 12, 2023
Last month I was asked to speed up a slow Microsoft Windows 11 computer. The owner felt something was infecting it and his resident security software missed it. One of the procedures I like to use is scanning for malware when Windows is dormant. This is done with a...
by Shane Grantham | Aug 29, 2023
I was trying to play a video on a web site with sound and couldn’t hear anything. Today I was on my MacBook Air laptop and the sound works on it last time I checked. I checked the volume keyboard controls and they allowed me to increase it to maximum. The screen...
by Shane Grantham | Aug 25, 2023
Today I was at a new computer client and I wanted to verify where they found my company. I was pretty sure they found me on the internet searching for computer support or repair. To my surprise they said they follow me on Social Media and especially on LinkedIn. ...
by Shane Grantham | Aug 23, 2023
Last month I started getting a handle on spam emails to my business email addresses. I found email filters to discard specific addresses I was getting constant messages from. My personal comcast has a similar setting though not as fancy. It’s under the gear...
by Shane Grantham | Aug 6, 2023
For the last two months or so one of my business email accounts has been getting daily messages about a business loan I didn’t want. They were from multiple people from different addresses. Several things were tried like ignoring them, flagging them as spam and...
by Shane Grantham | Aug 4, 2023
The dominant subject I hear in the news lately is Artificial Intelligence. In the newsletter emails I receive there are many articles on Artificial Intelligence (AI). From what I know it’s a way computers can predict the future based on past events. I’ve...