by Shane Grantham | Mar 25, 2023
I was at a client recently working on their printers, Apple laptops, smartphones and Apple tablets. They asked me what kind of computer person I was. As they were asking me, I knew immediately what they meant. They thought I would say Windows instead of Mac/Apple. I...
by Shane Grantham | Mar 21, 2023
This weekend a new person called me with a laptop problem. His fairly new laptop stopped working and he wanted me to find out what happened. He dropped it off on Saturday and Monday morning bright and early I was working on it. I tried my different techniques...
by Shane Grantham | Mar 11, 2023
I was at a client this week performing many tasks for them and one was troubleshooting an inkjet printer. It was an HP model that worked at one point in it’s life, but now it was not working. I sent and internal test page to it and it acts like it’s...
by Shane Grantham | Mar 10, 2023
One of my clients has a landline phone which has problems occasionally. Sometimes it won’t receive calls and sometimes it won’t place calls. This phone setup isn’t a conventional one – it requires a cellular receiver from ATT. An ordinary...
by Shane Grantham | Mar 9, 2023
Saturday I got a phone call from an Ohio number. It was a new computer repair client who found me on the internet. They had a Windows 10 All-in-One PC which was having windows problems. They wanted a service call to diagnose the computer. I found out they are in...
by Shane Grantham | Mar 7, 2023
This week I was at two new clients which came from the same source: a networker who has a printer cartridge store. Tomm and I networked together at the former Networking group from 2009-2013. There we got to know each other and our businesses. He has had me do...
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...
by Shane Grantham | Jan 17, 2023
One of my long-time computer clients mails my check in a windowed-envelope and writes my address by hand. He’s a writer and has two blogs on Facebook. I’m always amazed how well he prints and I wanted to share it with you. He worked for USA Today in the...
by Shane Grantham | Jan 6, 2023
One of the ways I advertise and market my computer business is through business sites like Facebook and Google. I ask my clients to rate and/or review me on Shane Grantham Consulting, Inc. People in my networking group are also asked since I help many of them with...
by Shane Grantham | Jan 2, 2023
Yesterday I wrote about my HP laptop that has Linux and Windows XP on it. It’s used only for my Video hardware convertor and programming my ham radio Handie-Talkie. I didn’t mention that It’s never put on the internet in Windows XP – So...
by Shane Grantham | Jan 1, 2023
Around 2005 my wife got a business-class laptop with Windows XP on it. She used it for several years and then stopped using it and opted for a tablet instead. It was still in great shape when it was retired and I held on to it and stored it for the future. Typically,...
