maintenance Archive

Lifehacker

– November 20, 2011Posted in: maintenance, News, Podcast, Social Networking, Video

Lifehacker is another how-to blog. They provide tips and tricks for various ‘life hacks’ . A quote from their website “Tips, tricks, and downloads for getting things done.” These include computers and electronics. The ‘life hacks’ could include a cheaper or easier way of doing something.
Lifehaker also has a weekly show on the Revision3 network. Click on ‘Read the rest of this entry” to see the video.

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Tags: getting things done, how-to

WikiHow

Rob Barkey

– November 19, 2011Posted in: Hardware, Home Entertainment, maintenance, security, Services, Software

WikiHow is on collaborative online how-to guide. This is a useful site that you can use to send customers to in helping them with DIY resolutions. They often have step-by-step directions, and sometime videos on how to do something. While the website covers many different categories they have an extensive section on Computers and Electronics. For those of us in the Computer and Electronics support fields it might help us to look through this area.

Since WikiHow allows user submissions, it can also be a great place to share your expertise with the world. Visit their website at www.WikiHow.com.

Tags: collaborative, DIY, how-to

Don’t let your tech make you sick

Rob Barkey

– November 9, 2011Posted in: maintenance

At this time of year when the cold and flu germs are being spread, you need to make sure that your tech is not the cause. Your keyboard has 60 times more germs on it then the toilet seat. 16% of all cellphones poop on them. Your laptop, tablet, remotes, and more all can be spreading illness to your family and co-workers unless you clean your devices. click on ‘Read the reset of this entry’ to see the infographic that tells us more about how to clean these devices.