Computer Support Blog

Most calorie counting technology, whether it’s a smartphone app or a dedicated wearable device, provides people with pure data.  That data usually includes calories burned, steps taken, and numerous other cold hard facts about the user’s daily health statistics.  However, the problem with this system is that most users of these fitness tracking apps and devices do not know exactly what to do about the data they receive.  Without being extremely well educated in the subjects of nutrition and personal fitness, people have no context to what the data they collect actually means for them.   Everyone’s body is different and the same data will mean very different things to people depending on age, weight, gender, athleticism, and various other factors.  Cool product Fjuul is a fitness tracker that tries to solve this problem by taking a different approach.  Rather than provide users with massive amounts of data that they don’t even understand properly most of the time, Fjuul provides people with one easily understandable metric that they can follow: Fjuul points.  Users who want to try Fjuul’s system can download the app on their iPhone or iPod.  If someone has trouble installing the app on his or her device, contacting Apple tech support would be the best course of action. Read more »

Streaming services like Spotify have taken the music industry by storm.  For many users, it’s clear that a monthly subscription to a vast library of on demand music is a great deal, and the subscriber numbers for Spotify and similar services like Rdio prove that.  However, this is not ideal for all types of music fans.  A significant number of people prefer to own their music rather than “rent” it as they would with a monthly subscription service.  Owning digital music files and being able to use them for whatever a user wants is important to many consumers.  However, strictly owning local music files on one computer doesn’t have any of the extra conveniences or benefits that streaming services provide.  Cool product Style Jukebox provides music fans with a system that allows them to own all their own music, but still gain the advantages that streaming services provide, such as online access to a user’s entire music library on any device with an Internet connection. People can upload their music to Style Jukebox on their PC’s and have immediate access to their entire collection on their smartphone, tablet and even other computers.  Anyone who has issues uploading their song files to the service should consider getting cloud computer support for help. Read more »

Reading can be an expensive hobby.  Hardcover books often cost between fifteen and twenty dollars and many paperback books hover around the ten-dollar area at bookstores across the United States.  However, avid eBook readers know that going digital can save people a significant amount of money.  While eBooks aren’t often cheaper than their physical counterparts upon initial release, digital bookstores provide readers with free and heavily discounted books far more than physical retailers do.  However, readers have to dig through the depths of different eBook stores like Amazon’s Kindle Store, Google Play, Apple iBooks, and Nook’s digital store to find these deals.  Most companies do not heavily advertise these discounts, especially in niche genres that have many digital readers.  Cool person in technology and entrepreneur Josh Schanker wants to make it much easier for eBook readers to find these deals.  In fact, with his company BookBub, he wants to make it completely effortless.  Schanker’s company provides a service that both curates specific eBook deals for its customers and automatically delivers the deals via email.  Anyone who has trouble receiving email will obviously need to contact a remote tech support company for help before using BookBub. Read more »

Augmented reality has many applications in the real world.  People can use it with wearable technology such as Google Glass to create head-up displays for when they perform physical work in an outdoor environment.  However, augmented reality isn’t only limited to wearable tech devices.  Cool product Augment puts the power of augmented reality in the hands of anyone with a smartphone or tablet.  Augment allows people to impose 3D models or prototypes that they create onto the physical world.  Users can view how their models would appear as real-world objects and get a better idea of how they would look before investing money to create a physical item.  Read more »

Making plans and trying to account for and include all of one’s friends is not always a simple task.  Keeping track of one’s own plans is difficult enough in many cases.  Trying to keep track of every friend’s long-term plans as well is pretty much impossible.  Enter cool person in technology Karl Jacob and his new product Hangtime.  Hangtime is a smartphone app that aggregates local events of all types and allows its users to indicate what events they are definitely going to be at and what ones they are potentially interested in attending.  Once a user and all his or her friends are on Hangtime, making plans with other people becomes far simpler.  For example, if a user sees that there is a concert they want to see in their area, that user simply taps to indicate that they are going.  The app notifies any friends also going or interested in the event so that they can contact the user if they want to make plans to attend together.  Anyone who has trouble downloading Jacob’s program from the App Store should contact iPhone tech support for help.  Read more »

Shipping costs can be problematic for many individuals and small businesses. Transporting very large items can even be cost prohibitive in some cases.  However, cool person in technology Everett Steele has founded Kanga in order to make delivering items less costly.  To accomplish this task, Steele has started using a model that has seen great success in other areas of the tech industry—crowdsourcing.  Companies like AirBnB and Uber have shown that having customers provide services to each other can actually be a viable business model if a company facilitates the exchange properly.  Kanga uses crowdsourcing by allowing people to request delivery services from anyone who has access to the proper transportation.  Once users find others able and willing to transport what they need moved, they can book the drivers to make deliveries through Kanga. Drivers on Kanga can charge less than large shipping companies, making the process far easier on people’s wallets.  Steele’s company takes a small cut of each payment for making each delivery possible.  Anyone who has technical difficulty while trying to schedule deliveries through Kanga should contact a computer support service for immediate assistance. Read more »

There are many apps that look to replace the use of loyalty and rewards cards in retail stores in restaurants.  A growing number tech companies are also looking to make smartphones into a way to make everyday payments in the physical world as well.  Other apps exist to help customers gain rewards for spending their money as part of a new marketing model powered by mobile technology.  However, cool person in technology Ned Moore didn’t found his startup Clutch to do just one of these things but all of them.  Clutch is an app for both Android and Apple mobile devices that aims to replace users’ physical wallets altogether.  On Clutch, people can add all the physical cards they would normally keep in their wallets, such as store loyalty cards or gift cards, so they can shop directly from the app.  Moore also lets users add credit cards to the app along with store cards and gift cards.  Moore even lets people add coupons for one-time deals when shopping with the app.  Users who have trouble downloading the app or adding any type of card to it need to find a smartphone tech support service to help them. Read more »

Wine is a passionate hobby for millions of people all over the world.  Wine tastings and winery tours draw huge numbers every year.  Now, a cool product uses mobile technology to cater to the passionate wine enthusiast community.  Vivino is a mobile app available on both Android and Apple devices that allows users to discover, review and share information about all the wines they try.  Vivino contains a giant database of available wines for people to access the details about at any time.  Users can look up different wines and learn not only where it comes from, its flavor profile, and where one can buy it, but also what other wine drinkers think of it.  Vivino lets people leave starred reviews of thousands of different wines and share their opinions of the products.  People can favorite specific reviews and even follow users that have similar tastes to them.  When people become friends on Vivino, they each receive updates when the other user reviews a new wine.  Enthusiasts can find new wines to try out, or even avoid, based on the tastes of their Vivino friends.  Anyone who has trouble while downloading Vivino from the App Store or the Play Store will need to get Android support or Apple tech support to help. Read more »

Live music has always been one of the biggest reasons for people to leave their homes and spend a night on the town.  Whether people are discovering new artists at small clubs or going to bigger venues to catch performances by their favorite bands, there is no question that live concerts are a major draw for them.  Now, a cool person in technology has formed a startup that looks to make it easier than ever for people to find local live music that they enjoy.  Mark Karsdorf has created Timbre with the aim of connecting people with local music whenever they want to go out and see a show.  Timbre detects users’ locations and shows them all the upcoming live shows in their area, whether performed by major artists or small local groups.  The app automatically tells people when and where there is live music to see around them.  Anyone who wants to use Karsdorf’s app but has problems with their phone’s GPS will need smartphone PC repair before utilizing Timbre.  Read more »

Two of the most common uses for the web are getting news and finding entertaining content.  Most people bookmark sites and use search engines to find the content they want to consume.  However, cool person in technology Dan Olsen believes it can be even easier to for people to find content on the web.  Olsen refers to his company YourVersion’s main product as a “discovery engine”, which detects a person’s preferences and interests in order to deliver them new content every day automatically.  YourVersion uses two methods to find content that users will enjoy on the Internet: bookmarks and interest tags.  Users can add interests to their profile manually and YourVersion will find content related to those interests.  However, YourVersion also supports website bookmarking and any sites that a user bookmarks for later use on YourVersion also inform the product when it retrieves new content for the user.  People who have trouble signing up for Olsen’s service online can get assistance from a home tech support company. Read more »