by Shane Grantham | Sep 21, 2016
Like many of you I have a personal LinkedIn account which I use daily. I post every couple of days and enjoy reading what my contacts are doing. The groups are a valuable feature which assists me in my Technology education and i have membership is about 10 different...
by Shane Grantham | Sep 19, 2016
A business client of mine recently bought themselves a new computer. Their old computer was having problems and they wanted a reliable and fast one. They failed to take an important precaution before they moved the hard drive to the new computer: they didn’t...
by Shane Grantham | Sep 18, 2016
Last week I was at a client’s working on their new Windows 10 desktop computer. They will be operating their businesses on this computer and probably the most important program which needed installed was their accounting program. We put the Quickbooks CD disc in...
by Shane Grantham | Sep 15, 2016
I was on my Microsoft Windows 10 desktop computer last night and wanted to telnet into a Linux server. I started a terminal window also known as a command prompt windows. I typed telnet servername and got an error. The telnet service isn’t installed. When I...
by Shane Grantham | Sep 10, 2016
Wireless networking in Linux used to be a challenge to configure. I remember back around 2002 when I started getting back into Unix and Linux and how hard it was to get a laptop to work with a wireless network adapter. It would take me hours sometimes and would entail...
by Shane Grantham | Sep 10, 2016
I liked Microsoft Windows XP as an operating system and used it for many years. Unfortunately, it has been retired and isn’t being maintained by Microsoft any longer. This means as security vulnerabilities are discovered in the operating system, they...
by Shane Grantham | Sep 3, 2016
Today a family member of mine needed to use one of my computers and I didn’t want them in my account, Instead of revealing my password and let them into my private data, I created their own user account and password. All operating systems have the ability to...
by Shane Grantham | Sep 1, 2016
I always heard that a business needs a web page and I agree. But what if you can’t afford one or have bad experiences with web pages? Can you get results with just Social Media? I think you can, but you have to be active posting a variety of things...
by Shane Grantham | Aug 30, 2016
I get asked every once in a while if I work with Apple devices like desktop computers, laptops, ipads and iphones and the answer is yes. Monday, I was helping a client with email and printing issues on their Apple desktop computer. They also needed advise on...
by Shane Grantham | Aug 29, 2016
One of my office desktop computers is an HP Compaq 6000 Pro that originally had Windows 7 as the operating system. I upgraded it to Windows 10 and it had a few problems that seem to have abated over the last three months. This morning I was logging into my file server...
by Shane Grantham | Aug 28, 2016
This morning at Spiece Fitness I was working my chest on the Pec Dec machine and saw a member I hadn’t seen for several months. His name escaped me, yet I knew it at one time. We began speaking and I apologized for forgetting his name. He told me what it was and...
by Shane Grantham | Aug 24, 2016
Last Thursday night I made a mistake. The New Haven Chamber of Commerce had their Meet Me At 5 event at New Haven Printing on Lincoln Highway. I RSVP’d to Sue via email and told everyone I was going to be there a week earlier. On Thursday afternoon something I...
by Shane Grantham | Aug 23, 2016
I have a number of computers each with one or two Operating Systems installed. In my line of work, the more operating systems I know, the more clients I can help which turns into more money for me. My main business laptop computer has Windows 10 on it and I carry...
by Shane Grantham | Aug 21, 2016
My company can be found on several on-line directories like Google, Bing, and Yelp as well as social media sites Facebook, LinkedIn and others. This week I got a phone call from a new person needing help with a GPS which wouldn’t charge any longer. When I made...
by Shane Grantham | Aug 19, 2016
A couple of months ago at the New Haven Chamber Networking Group, we got on the topic of business cards. We noticed one of the attendees who owned their own business didn’t have their name on their business card. It was a nice business card with the business...
