by Shane Grantham | Sep 24, 2021
One of my relatives has worked for the Fort Wayne Komets Hockey Club for 30 years. The club has been in existence since 1952 and plays at the Allen County(IN) War Memorial Coliseum. I have boxed pocket schedules for the 2021-2022 season available for your businesses...
by Shane Grantham | Sep 22, 2021
For the past five years I’ve been running an open business networking group on behalf of the New Haven, Indiana Chamber of Commerce. Today I arrived at 469 Sports and Spirits at 1140am which is later than I like, I try and be there by 1130 so I can greet new...
by Shane Grantham | Sep 18, 2021
Today I was installing Quickbooks on a Windows 10 Pro computer and needed to open a Portable Document File (PDF) during the installation. This windows 10 computer was recently wiped and reloaded so it didn’t have many programs available. It did have Mozilla...
by Shane Grantham | Sep 17, 2021
Sometimes it’s better to start over with a fresh computer than fix software and OS problems. That’s what my client this week wanted for their HP All-in-one desktop PC. They said it was slow and full of malware- they didn’t need any data recovered....
by Shane Grantham | Sep 16, 2021
When I’m troubleshooting a computer I want to rule out hardware failures before I work on the operating system and software or malware problems. I like to test the RAM and hard drive for defects and if a computer has built-in testing diagnostics, it makes...
by Shane Grantham | Sep 15, 2021
I was on-site at a business client last week setting up computers for a new location. One of the laptops had an alert that an important firmware update was available for it. Firmware is the software that works with the hardware of the computer and the computer...
by Shane Grantham | Sep 14, 2021
My last blog was about my issues with converting VHS tapes to digital format. Around 2005, a Plextor Convertex hardware device was bought and I used it many times to convert VHS tapes to digital format. The computer it used was a Windows XP desktop which is long...
by Shane Grantham | Aug 29, 2021
I have some old VHS tapes I wanted to convert to digital format and I dug out my Plextor video recorder. Back around 2005-2008 it was used heavily to convert several VHS tapes to MP4s and AVI files. Then it was connected to my Windows XP computer which is no longer...
by Shane Grantham | Aug 19, 2021
In the early 2000s I worked for an IT company and took care of my client’s computer and printer needs by visiting their businesses much like I do now. One day at our office I heard my boss discussing going out on sales calls when people wanted a quote. I know...
by Shane Grantham | Aug 17, 2021
Yesterday a desperate email was received from one of my commercial computer clients. They receive service orders via email and just found out one of these emails got sent directly to their Trash folder. It sat there unbeknownst to them for a few days while their...
by Shane Grantham | Aug 15, 2021
There are many ways to save time using a computer and the keyboard is where we start today. Most of us use an external mouse or laptop trackpad to open documents, start programs and close programs. I do the same, but I also use the keyboard to do some tasks that the...
by Shane Grantham | Aug 13, 2021
I have an old digital camera from the earlier 2000’s which still takes nice pictures. I’ve been using it to take pictures on walks and around the house. Being an older camera, it needs a compact flash card to save the images. When I want to take the images...
by Shane Grantham | Aug 4, 2021
I remembered to take pictures this week after forgetting for the last two. We had 12 people and one new one. Our business group has met weekly for five years with few requirements for attendance. We don’t charge, No RSVP needed, You don’t have to be a...
by Shane Grantham | Jul 27, 2021
What happens if one of your computer services partners like your email or cloud storage gets taken down by Ransomware? Try and have a backup of all your data locally and off-line on an external hard drive or thumb drive in case your cloud storage goes down. If your...
by Shane Grantham | Jul 26, 2021
Yesterday I got my old MacBook Pro laptop’s macOS updated with Sierra. It’s been fantastic being able to install programs I couldn’t in the past. One of the programs I’ve used for 10 years is GIMP. It has many features for creating and...
