I am excited to announce that Paper Bird is partnering with Simple Cellular here in Huntsville! This partnership will give access to both companies with one call, and one address. Need to drop off or pick up a computer, tablet, or phone for repair? Swing by Simple Cellular Monday through Friday from 9am to 5:30pm or on Saturday from 9am to 12:30pm. (hours subject to change, please visit their…
So you downloaded (or had it magically appear like me) the new Google Drive for Desktop to use as the “new and improved” Backup & Sync only to find that it requires additional setup and then installs a G: that you didn’t ask for and can’t remove. Welcome to the new Google Malware! When the new program first “appeared” on my computer I thought it had been installed with…
Over the years I have really heavily used Malwarebytes to start the diagnostic process for a lot of my clients. If their machine seemed to be infected or was just slow, that was the tool I pulled out first. Let’s take a closer look at why that is. In my field I could use pretty much any diagnostic tool out there, and I have a large arsenal from which…
Ever wonder what exactly is inside your monitor and how it works? With the majority of computer monitors these days being LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) let’s have a look inside one and see what makes it tick. I should warn you first, do not take a monitor apart unless you are experienced with this type of electronics. Monitors, even the newer ones, can discharge a large amount of electricity…
It seems that we are hearing almost daily about security breaches and ransomware attacks. Most of the time these are large corporations and government agencies, so how can we possibly keep ourselves protected when they can’t? To start with, we don’t need to be as secure as these other targets because we don’t have as much to protect. No hacker organization is going to expend massive resources attempting to…
There are a lot of data calculators out there to help you figure out how much data you will use streaming video, unfortunately for me they were all wrong. So how much data can you expect to use and how fast does your internet need to be in order to stream? Those are some tricky questions, but let’s see if we can get some answers. We need to start…
In the last article we talked about replacing your existing cable connection with online streaming services. What we did not discuss was how to get those services from the internet to your television. That is what we will be covering today. If your TV is new enough, and high end enough, it is probably what we call a smart TV. This means it has the capability to run apps…
A lot of people are still using a traditional cable service simply because they have been using it for so long that they don’t think about any other way to watch TV. For a lot of these people, they don’t know they can have a better experience for less money. I won’t be using the term “cord cutter” much here because in all fairness anyone who watches TV does…
If you use a cable company for your internet the odds are you are renting your modem from your cable company. At first glance this seems like an OK idea since it is usually only $10 a month and if anything goes wrong, they take care of it. There are several problems with this idea however, starting with the fact that you are almost certainly being given a used…
There are a lot of threats out there today, and they get smarter and smarter. While no software will protect you from yourself, it does go a long way to help things out. The problem is that there are so many different pieces of software out there, how do you figure out which one is right for you? Let’s dive in and I will show you how I choose…
