by Shane Grantham | Jan 19, 2021
My smartphone is two years old and about every one to two months I get an alert about available updates for it. It’s a good idea to install them especially if they are security updates. We hope the updates wont cause problems with the smartphone like making...
by Shane Grantham | Jan 15, 2021
I try and use the Tor privacy web browser whenever possible on my Linux, Microsoft Windows and Apple computers. Tor prevents censorship, surveillance and tracking on the internet. It keeps your web browsing private from your Internet Service Provider who logs...
by Shane Grantham | Jan 11, 2021
Someone new called me today seeking computer assistance for a Windows 7 HP computer. They were unable to update Windows 7 to Windows 10 after two attempts. They really couldn’t remember the message they received after both failures and they wanted to know if I...
by Shane Grantham | Jan 6, 2021
A while back I wrote about my kitchen laptop with the built-in wireless networking problem. Well, the external wireless I added worked for a while but then both network devices stopped working. I put the laptop in my garage on the workbench for a week and left it...
by Shane Grantham | Jan 3, 2021
One of my business interests is business networking and I have been attending networking group meetings since August 2005 on a weekly basis. It’s helped my revenue and taught me some good lessons after listening to other networkers. My approach to business...
by Shane Grantham | Jan 2, 2021
One of my services for my computer repair clients is malware(virus) detection and prevention. There are many products out there like McAfee, Avast, Kapersky and AVG. I prefer Comodo products but I’ll work with any of them. Comodo has versions for Microsoft...
by Shane Grantham | Dec 31, 2020
I don’t like buying from Amazon since they are a New World Order company and they like destroying small businesses. Of course according to them, they are helping the world. A year ago I received a gift card from a relative of mine. I used it to buy a USB thumb...
by Shane Grantham | Dec 27, 2020
I use laptops frequently in my computer repair business. The majority of the time to move the mouse cursor the built-in trackpad is used. Scrolling up and down pages is a hassle using the side scrollbar on the screen. You have to hover the cursor right over the bar,...
by Shane Grantham | Dec 25, 2020
Last month my Wife was having problems with the Xfinity(Comcast) signal on our television. The DVR(digital video recorder) would loose connection to the internet, freeze during playback and display error messages. I noticed the internet went up and down on my...
by Shane Grantham | Dec 21, 2020
I have an old Acer Travelmate laptop built around 2007 which I use in the kitchen. In it’s day it was the cat’s pajamas being a business laptop. Originally Windows XP was the operating system and since it’s unsafe on the internet, I put Linux on it....
by Shane Grantham | Dec 20, 2020
I flipped on one of my Linux PCs tonight and saw the startup splash screen appear but something was wrong . The hard drive LED was blinking meaning the hard drive was loading files, but the screen went blank. It stayed blank for 10 minutes. Various things were...
by Shane Grantham | Dec 10, 2020
One of my Fort Wayne computer clients was getting pop-ups on their Windows 10 computer and they didn’t know where they were originating. While I was at their business working on other tasks, I asked my typical questions and didn’t get any clues from them....
by Shane Grantham | Dec 1, 2020
At the beginning of this year I bought a new MacBook Air which is a small laptop. It’s been a nice computer with it’s light weight and long battery life. I use it almost exclusively for web browsing which includes editing my web sites and research. One...
by Shane Grantham | Nov 28, 2020
Everywhere I look or listen on TV, radio and the web, 5G is being advertised as a wonderful technology that everyone needs. 5G stands for 5th generation radio technology. From what I’ve heard and read, 5G technology has has been used for crowd control for years....
by Shane Grantham | Nov 27, 2020
I got a phone call this morning from a business client who couldn’t get connected to a network drive in their office. I walked them through testing different things on the shared computer with the hard drive. Enroute to solving the problem, I used one of my...
