When choosing a printer for your home, one of the options you have to consider is how the computer connects to the printers. Most printers offer the ability to connect to a wired or wireless network for sharing. Knowing the advantages of each type of printer can help you make the best choice.
Below is a brief video to help explain what phishing is and how your computer could be affected. Phish-ers pretend to be your friend, so they can find personal information about you. They do this by sending emails to your computer or bring up fake websites on your laptop. All this to try to get your date of birth, or address - or the one they hope most for...your credit card number.
One of the most common issues we repair with computers is internet issues. The Wi-Fi isn’t going on your laptop or other computer and it turns out the internet isn’t connected somehow. Often the reason the internet isn’t working is that the router is too old and is failing. What makes this tricky to figure out is that most or all of the lights are still on the router so it LOOKS like the internet is working.
A Solid State Drive is by far the best value for money, bang for your buck upgrade, make-your-computer-faster, you can do for your computer. If you have a laptop or a desktop computer and it’s going a bit slow then you would gain great advantage by doing this upgrade.
After every big Windows 10 update is released, we get calls from our computer customers having a whole variety of issues – that’s certainly the case for the latest big update, 1803 April 2018 Update – but how many users have been affected by computer problems (that can affect laptops, desktops and some tablets) caused by Microsoft’s Operating System since its launch approximately three years ago?
Someone people move all their photos from their computer onto an external drive and think they have a backup. They don’t.
It's tricky but the thing that makes a computer “good” or “bad” is not the pretty stuff on the outside but rather the components in it. Even trickier, “specs” don’t give you any indication of the quality of the components in your laptop…or desktop PC or any other type of computer.
The two key things that you need to be aware of are…components and setup.
Do you remember the movie “Home Alone”, there’s the ‘police officer’ who visited the McCallisters. Although he was a burglar, his convincing police officer impersonation led them to volunteer information about where they were going and for how long. He was fishing for information (which is where ‘phishing’ comes from). With that info he was able to plan the robbery. ‘Phish’-ers do the same with your computer via email, messenger or phone.
I’ve used many different wireless routers over the past 20 years but VR2800 by TP-Link is super cool. If you want your computer to go fast on the internet – especial if it’s a laptop or tablet or phone, you need to make sure your wireless internet is not slowing you down.
