Computer Support Blog

We can measure almost everything in business and personal life in numbers, from fitness goals to percentages to finances and almost anything imaginable.  These can be hard to keep track of, particularly when segregated into so many different areas for so many different needs.  It is precisely this problem that the creators of an app called Numerous seek to solve.
According to its developers, it effectively keeps track of the most important numbers in your life and keeps them all up to date, all in one place.  This can, essentially, include anything you can imagine that has to do with numbers in any way whether counting, totaling values of any kind for any reason, timing, or just about any other feat involving numbers. Read more »

We store a lot of information on our various tech devices, from pictures to videos to documents and many other files.  We also share these many things to a number of different social media sites and personal websites and keep them there to access later.  We may have different photos on a desktop, tablet and smartphone, while we use each of these devices at different times to post anything that interests us.  This can all get complicated and lead to a lot of time spent going from program to program on any number of different tech devices to access our files.  Fortunately, there is ZipCloud, a Cloud storage platform that allows you to securely store, stream, and share your media content online.  The app’s creators tout it as one library for all your media where you can import all your movies, documents, music, photo and home videos in a unique place.  It is a media library in the cloud, where it is faster and easier to enjoy your media anywhere and share it with friends. Read more »

Content management is becoming a fragmented experience as more and more storage solutions appear on the market.  It is becoming commonplace for professionals to have data stored locally on their own computers and tablets, on their smartphones, and on cloud-based solutions such as Dropbox and Google Drive.  Navigating through each individual file management system can be cumbersome and time-consuming.  To deal with this situation, cool person in tech Kevin Payne and his company Metago have built a unifying content management app for Android called ASTRO.  ASTRO doesn’t only access one storage system, but connects to both your local network and cloud services to create a single file management system for all of a user’s content.  Payne’s app can connect to services such as Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, SkyDrive and even Facebook.  It can also access any computer that shares its data with a local network.  This means a user could conceivably access all of their files from one user interface on their phone at any given time.  Users that don’t know how to share their computer’s content over a local network will want home computer support for help. Read more »

Do you have your school shopping under control?  Are you sure you have thought of everything that might make this year’s academic experience high tech quality?  “Bring words and ideas into your digital world automatically and wirelessly” is the appeal of Livescribe’s newest version of the smartpen – the Sky.  Advances in tech support have made possible the use of highly sophisticated technologies on a scale as small as that of a pen!  “What starts on paper doesn’t have to stay there,” declares Livescribe’s website. Read more »

Technology, as you know, changes exceptionally fast.  It seems like just last year that Cloud-based services were just appearing on the Internet!  Now, Google is releasing its personal Cloud service and, in advance of that, the competitors who got the jump on Google are revising their services to remain relevant.  Some of the well-established personal Cloud services may be changing the services you have come to rely upon!  Some of the most significant changes are coming to the following: Read more »

Every modern operating system includes a search engine so that you can search the contents of your own computer.  With the emergence of mobile computing devices like smartphones and tablet computers, the major operating systems include rudimentary search functions.  For those devices, there are often applications that can provide search functions that are more robust.  Those search applications search your personal information on your mobile device and throughout your social network connections that are stored in the Cloud.  For Android-based computing devices, the application that gives you the best search of your personal information is CloudMagic for Android. Read more »

Sometimes, an individual’s association with a company can make all the difference in establishing a business venture.  John F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to make a political magazine at a time when the market was pretty much strangled with political print magazines did not stop him from making George a success.  In a similar way, one of the new tech sector startups benefits greatly from the celebrity of one of the members of its management team.  Numecent is an emerging Cloudpaging company and it would be just another Internet startup if it was not for Hildy Shandell.

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What is one of the few online services that Google does not yet have? That may be a difficult question with the dozens of products and services Google offers, but the answer is a cloud drive. There are already ways to store information on some Google services, but comprehensive Google cloud storage may be available soon.

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