by Shane Grantham | Oct 25, 2017
I was helping someone with a perplexing problem the other day with their Xfinity stream service. On a previous Windows 10 computer, It would play television fine, but on their new Windows 10 laptop, it would not. The previous computer was a desktop computer with the...
by Shane Grantham | Oct 23, 2017
Whenever a new social media platform is created, I try and create an account on it so I’ll have the name I want when I’m ready to use it. When Snapchat arrived, I created my account, but never used it. Every couple weeks I tried to post a picture from my...
by Shane Grantham | Oct 22, 2017
A business client of mine uses a government website to get technical data for real estate properties on a daily basis. It works best with the Chrome web browser and last week I received a message that they couldn’t retrieve any data. They took a step into...
by Shane Grantham | Oct 19, 2017
I got an ominous phone call yesterday about a friend and mentor who passed away. After the shock wore off, I started thinking about where I met Vic Sockrider. Around 2010, I heard about a new networking group in the Georgetown Shopping Center area and was encouraged...
by Shane Grantham | Oct 17, 2017
Wi-Fi can be mysterious to get functioning on a smartphone sometimes. One of my computer repair clients was frustrated with their iPhone 6 last weekend. Their data plan was being gobbled up so they disabled their cellular mobile data under settings. They assumed...
by Shane Grantham | Oct 16, 2017
This summer I received a phone call from someone new who owned a local business in Allen County. Their IT person passed away and they needed a replacement. They found my company on the Internet and liked what they saw. He had a question for me- “Who are some of...
by Shane Grantham | Oct 14, 2017
One of my computer repair clients called a few Saturdays ago with the news that her UPS was beeping. An emergency service call was made and I replaced it with a loaner unit. I used to stress to business networkers and my computer service clients how important it is...
by Shane Grantham | Oct 13, 2017
In the past twelve years I have attended many business networking groups and get invited to many as well. I enjoy going to new groups with the possibility of meeting new people and reuniting with ones from my past. This summer, my Facebook company page got a message...
by Shane Grantham | Oct 11, 2017
One way to advertise and promote your brand or business is to create a Facebook brand page for it. I did that for my computer repair company, Shane Grantham Consulting, Inc. I originally categorized it as a Company, but I could have done it as a local business. When...
by Shane Grantham | Oct 9, 2017
One of my closest business networking friends is research specialist John Dickmeyer. John worked for the ACPL for many years and he has his own TV show on Access Fort Wayne. He is also interested in computers and we are always learning from each other during our...
by Shane Grantham | Oct 7, 2017
One of my new computer clients was working on their Windows computer this summer. It started to give them grief and they decided to wipe it clean and re-install the operating system. Well, something went wrong with their procedure and their computer was stuck in some...
by Shane Grantham | Oct 1, 2017
I learned early in my work life that it’s important to collect recommendations from people who know your work. My father relied on colleague’s opinions of people he was hiring and he taught me to ask my employers for recommendation letter’s when I...
by Shane Grantham | Sep 28, 2017
Fort Wayne Readers Choice Awards is finished for this year. My category was Electronics- Computer Repair store and I didn’t win first, second or third place. Naturally I was curious who won and I started comparing the winners to my company. Two of the winners...
by Shane Grantham | Sep 27, 2017
This weekend I was messing around with an old Dell business laptop which still had its original operating system, Windows XP, installed. I wanted to see if the laptop would let me install Linux Mint 18.2 on it and allow Windows to remain functional in a dual-boot...
by Shane Grantham | Sep 27, 2017
I take a lot of photographs with my smartphones and they pile up fast. I just checked the SD Card in one phone and it has over 500 photos in two months time. When it gets this full, I like to use my computer with 2 large monitors to sort and file them on my server. To...
