If you have surfed the web for any length of time then I’m sure at some point you’ve run into the infamous “red X” where a picture or other graphic was supposed to appear.

Computer repair is a tricky business - you never know what kind of problems you are going to be asked to solve and there is always the pressure to get it done quickly. Every call is a different challenge and most of the time it can take a half hour or more just looking around trying to get a…

Once upon a time there was this guy who was so enamored with “cloud” computing that he stuck all of his digital eggs in one basket and in the blink of an eye lost it all.

Most of the time, when I get calls for computer help I can usually figure out how to fix things out instinctively. Why? Well because I examine the contents of the different menus looking for the option that will most likely get me closer to my goal (while keeping in mind whatever it is I’m t…

One of the features that make laptop computers so appealing is the fact that they are portable. With a laptop you are free to roam where you want to.

One of the things that I’ve noticed over the years is that it’s real easy to forget to pay attention to what the mouse is doing.

If there is one basic function that everyone is familiar with and yet shrouded in mystery I would have to say that would be the “print” command. Again, everybody is familiar with the print command – click the print button and your printer spits out a hard copy. But the reason it’s shrouded i…

Sometimes when computers malfunction, the timing can be coincidental causing you to chase your tail around trying to fix it. Most of the time when your computer starts acting squirrelly, its good practice to consider the last thing that happened right before the problem popped up and then tr…