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...
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....
