If you need to help someone setup their Linksys/Cicso router but you are not in the same location sometimes it gets to be quite tricky trying to guide them from screen to screen if you can’t see what they see.  Linksys has provided the configuration pages in HTML format so you can move from screen to screen just as you would on a router. The files can be found at: http://ui.linksys.com/files/ You just find the product model you need, click the directory and then click the version number. You will be presented with a web page version of the router.

If you have to support users of family members this information can be very useful.

From time to time we have been asked how to extend a home network so that you have a good wireless signal strength in a large house or building. WiFi only works for a few hundred feet, less if you add walls of floors. What is a good solution? Read more

What do you do when you have PCs, Macs and smartphones that all need access to your files? You use a program called Dropbox! Its free and allows data syncing between all of your computers and devices. Read more

If you service Dell PCs and you have an Android powered smart phone then you need this app! Th Dell Service Tag Scanner app uses your camera much like many other bar code scanner apps do but this one queries the Dell service database for the tag number and returns all of the information on that unit. Read more

We all have valuable data on our hard drives, whether it’s pictures, financial data, word processing files or just assorted things. Hard drives in today’s machines are lasting longer and longer but the sizes are getting bigger and bigger so you can loose much more information if one fails. Wouldn’t it be nice to know ahead of time that your hard drive was having problems and may be about to fail? Read more

With the surge of spyware and viruses on the internet we thought it might be a good time to revisit a useful utility that everyone using the internet should checkout. Its provided by Mozilla.org and is a free service that they have made available to help stop the spread of malware, spyware and viruses thru outdated and unsecured plug-ins. Read more