by Shane Grantham | Mar 29, 2021
I’m lucky In my computer business that I see different professions and learn some of their tools. One of my computer clients is a land surveyor and they showed me a helpful web site a few years ago. He uses it to research a property before he visits on site to...
by Shane Grantham | Mar 23, 2021
The last two weekends I’ve had phone calls and service calls on Saturday and Sunday. I like to get service calls done as soon as I can so I’ll be ready for the next one. And many times they are emergencies for my client who calls. If a computer call can...
by Shane Grantham | Mar 22, 2021
I have used Quickbooks in my computer repair business for 18 years. It’s easy for me and and it’s been nice for my accountants to use to do my taxes over the years. The version I’ve always used is the Windows desktop version which is installed...
by Shane Grantham | Feb 23, 2021
I have six smartphones that I use for various things in my life. Now before you judge me as nuts – let me explain. The newest one is 2 and a half years old and my main smartphone. The plan is to keep this one as long a possible because it was ridiculous how...
by Shane Grantham | Feb 16, 2021
Lately, I’ve been attempting to clean up my old computer equipment in my office and workbench area. It’s either being sold, put back into service or discarded. Back around 2005 I bought a webcam from a computer store that’s out of business now....
by Shane Grantham | Feb 10, 2021
One of my clients called me this week with an emergency. They couldn’t get one of their computers to respond when they turned it on Monday. They shut it down Friday because they weren’t going to be in the office over the weekend. The two monitors never...
by Shane Grantham | Feb 4, 2021
I currently use four different operating systems throughout my personal and business life: Microsoft Windows 10, Linux Mint, Raspberry Pi, and Apple OS 10.x. One interesting keyboard shortcut I like to use is the Windows start button. I just tap the windows key and...
by Shane Grantham | Feb 2, 2021
If you’re looking for a free, internet-based entertainment site, then browse to pluto.tv. I heard about Pluto.tv a few years ago on RT America and promptly checked it out. They have many channels from news, sports, reality tv, old tv shows and many others. It...
by Shane Grantham | Jan 31, 2021
One of the things I worry about is the charging port on my Samsung smartphone. The phone is over two years old and it’s been plugged in and unplugged countless times from it’s charging cables. It’s been fine as of now but I’ve seen some of my...
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...
