by Shane Grantham | Apr 23, 2023
I was entering something in Google Calendar on my smartphone the other day and I looked away at a client’s laptop I was repairing. When I tried to find it a few minutes later in the calendar, it had vanished! I searched for it on other days of the calendar, but...
by Shane Grantham | Apr 21, 2023
I have a number of laptops for business and pleasure including Apples, Linux and Microsoft Windows. Using different operating systems keeps me agile when it comes to service calls with any computer. One thing that I noticed with the Apple computers is they support...
by Shane Grantham | Apr 20, 2023
When I first started my computer company in 2003 I just accepted cash and checks as payment. Around 2008 a client who was also a networker asked if I took credit cards as payment. He introduced me to a mobile smartphone app that takes any credit card on the spot and I...
by Shane Grantham | Apr 19, 2023
Many computers are part of my business and personal life. My main office computer is a Linux Mint 20.x machine which used to have Windows 7 installed. Linux does well on it the majority of the time but today it was slow and the hard drive LED was solid most of the...
by Shane Grantham | Apr 5, 2023
I have a computer client which misses their Facebook account which stopped working some time last year. I’ve been on-site at their location three times so far trying to fix this mess. It seemed to have started when their spouse died last year. The details are...
by Shane Grantham | Mar 31, 2023
Earlier this month I was out in the southwest part of Fort Wayne at a new computer client. It as an interesting experience because it didn’t involve any Microsoft Windows products. I worked with two Apple iPhones, an apple iPad tablet, and three Apple laptops...
by Shane Grantham | Mar 29, 2023
Tuesdays will be different for me after March 28, 2023. This is the day I closed the New Haven Chamber networking group. Since April 2016, we met almost every week at three different locations in the New Haven, IN area. We were an open business networking group...
by Shane Grantham | Mar 25, 2023
I was at a client recently working on their printers, Apple laptops, smartphones and Apple tablets. They asked me what kind of computer person I was. As they were asking me, I knew immediately what they meant. They thought I would say Windows instead of Mac/Apple. I...
by Shane Grantham | Mar 21, 2023
This weekend a new person called me with a laptop problem. His fairly new laptop stopped working and he wanted me to find out what happened. He dropped it off on Saturday and Monday morning bright and early I was working on it. I tried my different techniques...
by Shane Grantham | Mar 11, 2023
I was at a client this week performing many tasks for them and one was troubleshooting an inkjet printer. It was an HP model that worked at one point in it’s life, but now it was not working. I sent and internal test page to it and it acts like it’s...
by Shane Grantham | Mar 10, 2023
One of my clients has a landline phone which has problems occasionally. Sometimes it won’t receive calls and sometimes it won’t place calls. This phone setup isn’t a conventional one – it requires a cellular receiver from ATT. An ordinary...
by Shane Grantham | Mar 9, 2023
Saturday I got a phone call from an Ohio number. It was a new computer repair client who found me on the internet. They had a Windows 10 All-in-One PC which was having windows problems. They wanted a service call to diagnose the computer. I found out they are in...
by Shane Grantham | Mar 7, 2023
This week I was at two new clients which came from the same source: a networker who has a printer cartridge store. Tomm and I networked together at the former Networking group from 2009-2013. There we got to know each other and our businesses. He has had me do...
by Shane Grantham | Feb 25, 2023
This week I’ve been reviewing my technical email bulletins because I discovered about 40 from last year I hadn’t processed. Most of them are serious and related to computer and IT consulting. Once in a while one of them will be fun and...
by Shane Grantham | Feb 23, 2023
To stay up on computing issues I read technical articles and saw one about new search engine web sites this week. The main search engines I use are Startpage.com and Duckduckgo.com. These two are privacy-based search engines which use google and bing on your behalf....
