by Shane Grantham | Feb 25, 2023
This week I’ve been reviewing my technical email bulletins because I discovered about 40 from last year I hadn’t processed. Most of them are serious and related to computer and IT consulting. Once in a while one of them will be fun and...
by Shane Grantham | Feb 23, 2023
To stay up on computing issues I read technical articles and saw one about new search engine web sites this week. The main search engines I use are Startpage.com and Duckduckgo.com. These two are privacy-based search engines which use google and bing on your behalf....
by Shane Grantham | Feb 21, 2023
In my line of work it’s important to keep up on the latest operating systems and hardware. If I didn’t do this, it would be difficult to service operating systems as they came on the market. It’s harder to stay up on hardware since there are so many...
by Shane Grantham | Feb 4, 2023
A long-time friend, business advisor and networker asked me who could repair his cassette tape deck. He was going to do it himself but once he removed the case, it looked a little more difficult than he imagined. I wanted to give it a try and he said ok. There are...
by Shane Grantham | Jan 30, 2023
Between 2000 and 2003 I studied for and passed three CompTIA professional certifications. They were the A+, Network+ and Linux+. Last week I bought a current A+ book of over 1000 pages so I could get current with this certification. I went on-line to the compTia web...