by Joseph Forbes | Jan 12, 2017 | Blog Entry, HARDWARE, Technical Support, Technicals, Troubleshooting
Have you ever needed to open your CD or DVD drive (generally referred to as your “optical drive”) but couldn’t? Just your luck, your favorite movie, video game, or music was probably stuck inside. Maybe the laptop’s power died, maybe the drive...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 10, 2017 | Blog Entry, HARDWARE, INTERNET, Technical Support, Technicals, Troubleshooting
You might sometimes find yourself with just one internet connection point–a single wired connection for your laptop at the hotel, for example, or your smartphone tethered over USB to your computer. But what if you have other devices that need internet access,...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 2, 2017 | Blog Entry, HACKING, HARDWARE, INTERNET, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
Hackers have been hacking wireless networks for a long time, but they don’t even need to hack your wireless if you never changed your wireless router’s admin password from its default value. If you never changed the admin password on your router after you...
by Joseph Forbes | Dec 30, 2016 | Blog Entry, DATA, Data Recovery, HARDWARE, SOFTWARE, Technical Support, Technicals, Troubleshooting
It’s a really awful way to start a day: you press the power button on your computer and nothing happens. Few computer problems are more frustrating than when your computer won’t boot. There are many reasons why a computer won’t turn on and often...
by Joseph Forbes | Dec 27, 2016 | Blog Entry, HARDWARE, Technical Support, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY, Troubleshooting
It usually goes something like this: YOU: “So I’m having this problem with my…” TECH SUPPORT: “Did you restart it?” YOU: “…” Few things cause more eye rolls than being told to restart something, be it your...
by Joseph Forbes | Dec 22, 2016 | Blog Entry, DATA, EDUCATION, HARDWARE, TECHNOLOGY
In the early days of computers, storage was calculated in megabytes and most systems relied on floppy drives. With the rise of hard drives, people could store more data but it ws not very portable. CDs brought digital audio but also the means to provide high capacity...
