by Shane Grantham | Oct 8, 2016
I was at a client’s office not long ago working on their windows 10 desktop computer which was fairly new. We woke up the computer so I could setup some things on their computer. We were greeted with a “Windows 10 updating’ -Please don’t shut...
by Shane Grantham | Oct 4, 2016
I was setting up a new computer for a client last night and they were asking questions about cookies and other web browser issues. I explained that I don’t worry about cookies too much, but that a subset of cookies – called tracking cookies can be a...
by Shane Grantham | Oct 3, 2016
Being a one-person business can pull you in many directions as some of you know. The smartphone is my mobile office and makes it easy to be anywhere and communicate with anyone. Phone calls, texts, emails and messages from social media sites all come in to my...
by Shane Grantham | Oct 1, 2016
A phone call was received last week from one of my business clients who was having a software problem. Their main business program was displaying a Java message when it was supposed to display a completed message. It was used to edit and send a bundle of photos to...
by Shane Grantham | Sep 22, 2016
“Can you help?”, was the short and simple LinkedIn message I got from one of my connections last month. The message came across on my smartphone which made it easy to respond. I didn’t remember this person and sent a LinkedIn message back asking...
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...
