#disaster avoidance

Smart Toys & Privacy – Are You At Risk?

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Two weeks ago some nutcase attempted to kidnap a 9 year old girl at Gelson’s in Rancho Mirage. He didn’t succeed when the store employees and the mom held onto the girl. He was caught after a police chase. That’s…

Disaster Avoidance 103 – Data Destruction

A number of years ago, I had handed a non-working phone back in a warranty exchange. It was not working and I thought nothing of it. It did turn on but I could not get it to connect to the service I was signed up for.

Shortly afterwards I had lots of warnings from a number of services, including my Google account, my Apple account and some others indicating I had logged in from: Russia, Ukraine,…

Disaster Avoidance 102 – External Hard Drives

30 years.

That’s how long I have been in the computer business.

In that time, I have seen many products come and go, companies absorb smaller companies and the change of the computer retailer from a specialty store into a commodity dealer. Remember WordPerfect?

I have also watched as people called me up in tears when computers would fail and all of their work and photos were gone. Of course,…

Disaster Avoidance 101 – Computer Lifecycles

When I first moved to the Coachella Valley in 2004, Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Mac OS 10.4 were the primary operating systems to be found on most client computers.

Over the course of nearly 13 years here in the desert, I have helped many clients with their computer needs. Laptops, desktops, tablet and phones have been serviced, many due to component failure. In some cases, the screens have been…