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...
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...
