Tech Talk #5 These days every site you visit wants a password. We’re not supposed to use the same password everywhere. Each site has different rules for the password they’ll allow you to have. What to do? Use a password manager. Many people use good old fashioned paper and pencil to keep track of their passwords. This is probably not a good idea if you work in an office where someone else could
Tech Talk #4 – July 18, 2015 You only need a new computer when you can’t do what you need to do on your current computer. If your computer is broken or too slow or can’t run that new software, you need a new computer. I’m scared, what should I buy? What you use the computer for determines how much computer you need to buy. These are my recommendations for when you go computer
Tech Talk #3 – July 18, 2015 Deleting files – Say you come into the office on Monday morning after a great office party, turn on your computer and find, to your horror, that sometime during the party you wrote a tremendously awful love poem to one of your coworkers. What can you do? When you have a document, image, or video on your computer that you really, really want to delete, it takes
Tech Talk #2, June 20, 2015 Antivirus – Viruses are the least of our problems on computers these days. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have antivirus protection, though; I just don’t recommend paying for it any more. The free antivirus products available today (AVG, Avast, SUPERAntispyware, etc.) will do a fine job of protecting you from the viruses that still exist. What we all need to watch out for are Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs)
Tech Talk #1 Windows 10: Wait, there’s new version of Windows? You may already have a new icon for Windows 10 on your taskbar, down there to the left of the time/date. It’s an all-white Windows icon that looks like a window pane. If you click on it you can reserve your upgrade to Windows 10. What’s Windows 10? Windows 10 looks and acts like Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 had a baby. The