by Shane Grantham | Nov 28, 2025
My main office computer is a Linux Mint 21.1. The primary video player program is named Cinema and I’ve used it for many years. Lately, it fails to respond when I try to play a video. As far as I know it is the default video program for the computer. No error...
by Shane Grantham | Nov 18, 2025
Last week I delivered a repaired PC to a client at their business. They connected the PC to the peripherals themselves since I had another appointment to get to. An hour or two later they called explaining the monitors were both blank. They were instructed to...
by Shane Grantham | Jun 14, 2023
Someone new called me last week about their Dell desktop computer. It wasn’t displaying any video on the screen before they brought it to me. When I fired it up on my workbench, the video worked fine. Later I contacted them and found out it was a sporadic...
by Shane Grantham | Oct 23, 2022
Like many others I watch all kinds of videos on the internet and many I want to save for myself so I can watch off-line. Over the years I’ve tried to download on different web browsers. the only way it ever worked was to install an extension or plug-in. Ant...
by Shane Grantham | Feb 10, 2021
One of my clients called me this week with an emergency. They couldn’t get one of their computers to respond when they turned it on Monday. They shut it down Friday because they weren’t going to be in the office over the weekend. The two monitors never...
by Shane Grantham | May 10, 2020
Last Wednesday I was asked to help someone with the Skype program. Skype allows two or more people to video conference with each other for free over the internet. They were going to be interviewed for a possible appearance on a television show later this year. I had...
