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...
by Shane Grantham | Nov 15, 2020
My newest laptop is an Apple MacBook Air which is light and fast. I got it this January and it has helped me learn Apple computers and get work done on the run. It was fast for several months and the last months it got slower and slower. Then one day it got so bad it...
by Shane Grantham | Nov 9, 2020
I have several computers with different operating systems on them like Windows, Apple and Linux. My favorite of them is Linux because it’s stable and versatile. The great thing about Linux is it runs on the same computers which Microsoft...
by Shane Grantham | Nov 6, 2020
Apple/Mac computers can get viruses just like Microsoft Windows computers, but not to the same extent. I’ve witnessed apple malware and Windows malware and Windows malware causes the most damage and support cost. Another reason is to protect files shared with...
by Shane Grantham | Oct 22, 2020
This week someone asked for assistance with their flip phone. They thought it wasn’t charging and they couldn’t call out on it. Rarely do I work with these types of phones since almost all my clients have smartphones. I started investigating the problems...
by Shane Grantham | Oct 21, 2020
People at my fitness center know I am a computer consultant and sometimes ask for help while I’m exercising. This summer a member asked for help with his iphone 10. It wasn’t acting right when he was playing music in Pandora and other functions. He...
by Shane Grantham | Oct 17, 2020
I have an old MacBook Pro which I love. Its screen is cracked and it appeared dead when i discovered it in my inventory earlier this year. I got it running and you can’t tell the screen his cracked. 8GB of RAM was added and now It has 10GB of RAM. The hard drive...
by Shane Grantham | Oct 9, 2020
I always carry at least one laptop with me on computer service calls. It allows me to take notes, test network connections, research on the internet and back up data. My laptops have always been DOS/Windows going back to Microsoft 3.1 and DOS. Around ten years ago, I...
by Shane Grantham | Oct 5, 2020
Friday night I got a call from a client with an interesting situation. Their Windows 10 laptop started blinking a black screen while it was being used. I connected remotely and attempted to find out what was going on. It was very hard to get anything done but I did...
by Shane Grantham | Sep 30, 2020
Last week I was at a client with a handful of desktop computers. One of them needed some network configuration and I went on my merry way and completed it. In the course of my troubleshooting I noticed the security software was having a problem on a Microsoft...
by Shane Grantham | Sep 29, 2020
It was a pleasant surprise today at the New Haven Chamber networking group. There were 20 people there today including myself which happens to be a post-lockdown record. From what I can remember we had three new networkers. One of them I know from the original New...
