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...
by Shane Grantham | Aug 17, 2016
Wireless printers are a great convenience for homes and businesses and they can be tricky to configure especially when it comes to attaching to your wireless network. More than a couple of clients have asked me to setup their wireless printers after they gave up. I...
by Shane Grantham | Aug 16, 2016
I’m cautious opening email attachments, even from people I know. I got an email from one of my computer repair clients last week that he sends out to a group of recipients regarding his area of expertise. These are usually sent out bi-weekly or monthly –...
by Shane Grantham | Aug 15, 2016
A recent laptop repair on a Samsung Windows laptop turned into a nightmare. The owner called me to work on his laptop which was dropped on it’s edge with the AC adapter/charger connected. The laptop no longer charged from the AC adapter and I offered to see if...
by Shane Grantham | Aug 14, 2016
Tuesday before our networking group, I was assisting New Haven Chamber’s Monika with her Kindle reader. It seems she was having problems downloading an e-book to it, although she had done it in the past. We started with her Windows laptop because this will be...
by Shane Grantham | Aug 10, 2016
A Fort Wayne computer repair client had a Windows 7 laptop which wouldn’t allow them to log into Windows. It was returning a User Profile error every time the correct password was entered. Then the login process started all over again and it prompted for the...
by Shane Grantham | Aug 9, 2016
This week a networker had me make a computer repair service call to their office to troubleshoot a Dropbox problem. The problem was on their Apple Macintosh desktop computer instead of the typical Microsoft Windows computer. There were thousands of files to upload...
by Shane Grantham | Aug 8, 2016
I help facilitate the New Haven Chamber of Commerce networking group along with businessman Vic Sockrider on Tuesdays noon at Rack and Helens. It’s open to everyone, even non-chamber members. We used to meet upstairs in a private conference room, but it seemed...
by Shane Grantham | Aug 6, 2016
A rare and interesting challenge awaited me this week from a new computer repair client. The user had taken their HP Windows 10 laptop to an Apple Mac computer place to have data copied to their new Mac laptop. When they got the HP back, a strange login screen...
by Shane Grantham | Aug 1, 2016
Most of the time my computer repair service calls are on Microsoft Windows computers. Once in a while I get the pleasure of working with Macintosh’s or Linux computers and last month this actually happened. I was working on hardware issues on this Linux Mint...
by Shane Grantham | Jul 31, 2016
I was at one of my business computer repair clients recently helping them increase the performance of their computer network. One of the employees had a Laser printer next to their windows computer and asked me for help with it. It was connected directly to the...
