by Shane Grantham | Feb 28, 2022
It only took three years or so but my Android smartphone hotspot is now functioning! On my previous smartphones I set them up for my laptops to use when I wasn’t near WiFi. And I wanted it working on my new one at the time. Setting it up was easy for me on...
by Shane Grantham | Feb 27, 2022
I got a phone call today from a long-time computer customer who has a Linux computer. They could print yesterday and today they can’t after sending an obituary article to their HP printer. Troubleshooting printers using remote control tools is challenging if the...
by Shane Grantham | Feb 25, 2022
Every couple days my Linux Mint desktop computer has hard drive problems where I can’t write files to the drive. Or it freezes in mid-use. Sometimes it won’t start Linux and I have to run it in recovery mode and then I run the manual file check utility on...
by Shane Grantham | Feb 23, 2022
This week I was presented with a tough challenge. A year-old Android smartphone was having difficulty downloading legitimate apps (Kroger and Great Clips). The message that continually displayed was “pending” without any error messages. We could let it sit for 10...
by Shane Grantham | Feb 17, 2022
Throughout my computer consulting career I have set up and improved the security for many Wireless (WiFi) routers. If it’s for a private company or home I use the most security possible to thwart intrusions. A feature that most routers have now is a Guest...
