Computer Support Blog

Social networking has made online communication easy, but privacy is a key issue with platforms like Twitter and Facebook.  While those services have their own private messaging applications, all it takes is a small mistake like clicking on the wrong button to broadcast a private message to all your friends, business partners, and family accidentally. Then you find yourself calling tech support for help deleting the message as you try to limit the damage. Social networking companies like Facebook design their services for mass communication, but there is a cool product that is available for social network-style private communication between only two people.  Avocado is a service available on Android devices, iOS devices, and the web that facilitates private communication between you and one other person.   This ensures the privacy of your messages and makes sure you’ll only ever send private messages and media to the intended recipient. Read more »

Most online shopping websites like Amazon and Overstock have a wish list feature, which allows you to save items you want to buy later in designated lists for organized shopping.  However, these companies naturally limit what you can put on your wish list to items available on their websites.  The problem with this is that most people do not do their online shopping at only one site, so making a list limited to a single online retailer is rather inconvenient.  That’s where cool person in technology Lauren McDevitt has stepped in and created an easy-to-use web-based service to fix this problem. Lauren McDevitt is the founder and CEO of New York based company Wantworthy, which provides a service that lets users create a universal wish list with items from any online retailer they choose.  Rather than inconveniently having to keep track of several lists over multiple websites, McDevitt has developed a service where people can conveniently keep track of everything they plan to buy online in one place and in an organized fashion. Read more »

Libboo Founder and CEO Chris Howard believes that the way people currently discover new books is inefficient for both readers and authors.  It is incredibly difficult for an author to find an audience without spending a significant amount of money towards advertising, storefront space and paying prominent reviewers to read your book.  Many independent writers and authors backed by smaller publishers simply don’t have the necessary resources for such a marketing blitz.  However, Howard is a cool person in technology that believes that he’s found a solution to that problem with his online service Libboo.  Read more »

Many of us have printed single-sheet fliers to promote an event or organization in the past.  The process can be a pain, as you have to waste time and effort posting fliers in as many places as possible in order for people to see them. You also waste time and money having to print hundreds, and sometimes, even thousands of these papers.  Fortunately, Smore offers a promising online alternative to this classic grassroots marketing solution.  Smore is a cool product that allows you quickly design “one-sheet” web pages and post them online.  These single page websites act as an alternative to an event or promotional flier.  Smore’s concept revolves around simplicity, as they have their own website builder to help people create visually engaging pages for whatever they’re promoting.  Smore takes advantage of the web as a medium as well, as it gives users options beyond static images and text.  You can add videos, tweets, and numerous other web-specific pieces of content into your flier directly as well.  In theory, using Smore in combination with an established online presence could make an event, sale, or product promotion much easier.  If you want to use Smore but struggle to get it to function, online tech support is something to look into for help.  Read more »

Apartment hunting, especially in urban areas, can be a difficult and frustrating process not only for the renter, but often for the landlord as well.  However, cool person in technology and Nestio CEO Caren Maio is improving the situation with her online apartment rental platform.  Nestio is a service that caters to all parties involved in shopping for a place to live.  Maio has led Nestio to where it offers online tools and services to not only renters, but also landlords and brokers as well.  Maio’s vision involves making the entire process easier for everyone.  Nestio offers an easily accessible platform to store information and post listings for landlords who want to avoid repetitive data entry and postings.  For renters, Nestio offers online tools for organizing your search and filtering results appropriately.  It also provides easy communication tools for both renters and landlords to streamline the entire process.  Maio is working on all sides to solve the problem of accessibility and inefficiency in the renting process and trying to make Nestio the solution many have been waiting to find. Nestio users who run into difficulties should find online computer support for a potential solution to their problems. Read more »

Many of us have hobbies and passions, but we often don’t have time to find avenues to pursue those activities.  Payal Kadakia is a cool person in technology who is trying to make it easy for everyone to find ways to pursue their interests.  Kadakia is the CEO of online company Classtivity.  Classtivity is an online marketplace that attempts to make locating and enrolling in classes quick and easy.  The site stores information on classes for any number of subjects or hobbies — art, dance, fitness, acting and more.  It puts all of the classes into a single database and gives users the information about when they will be, where they will be and how much they cost.  This way, finding a way to pursue an interest or hobby requires much less effort, especially as users can sign up for classes directly on the site.  Kadakia launched the company in early 2011 and has grown it to the point where over 30,000 classes in seven different metropolitan areas are in the company’s database.  If you want to search through Classtivity but find yourself encountering difficulties, finding computer tech support could be a major help.  Read more »

When Adi Tatarko attempted to remodel her Silicon Valley home several years ago, she ran into many roadblocks and has since described the experience as rather miserable.  However, realizing there was a problem with how insular the interior design world was, this cool person in technology set out to create an online service that would be part of the solution.  In 2009, Tatarko and her husband Alan Cohen launched Houzz in hopes to create an online platform that would help those going through the process of designing and renovating their homes.  The site allows users to create “ideabooks”, which they fill with designs and photographs posted on the site by design professionals and other users.  Users can then also create “projects” where they upload pictures of the renovations and designs in their own home.  Each project or posting also has a discussion forum where people can ask questions about a design’s specifics.  The site works to create a dialogue between members and promotes a collaborative effort in the difficult task of designing and remodeling your home. If you want to use the site, but find yourself overwhelmed for any reason, tech support is available to make your experience more pleasant.  Read more »

While the rise of the eBook market has made self-publishing a viable concept for new writers, the process of getting your eBook onto online retail stores can still be complicated and difficult.  However, a new company called Tablo is looking to change this aspect of the self-publishing process.  Tablo is a cloud-based company that offers authors tools to not only help format their novels and short stories, but also easily publish them to online retail stores with a click.  This attempt to disrupt the eBook industry could potentially save many writers hours of time and stress if it delivers on its promise of an easier solution.  Authors want to spend more time honing their craft and less time navigating the complicated route to getting their work online.  Tablo is a cool product that’s in a position to capitalize on this market. Read more »

Online services have helped empower content creators in several major industries.  The music industry has arguably seen the largest shift of all since the Internet became ubiquitous.  Software exists that can turn a home desktop computer into an adequate recording studio.  Online music services like iTunes, Spotify, and Amazon Music allow musicians to make their music globally available.  However, there are still difficulties getting your work onto those online music services. Philip Kaplan, founder of Distrokid, is a cool person trying to fix that problem.  Kaplan, a musician himself, has been successful building Internet businesses in the past and is now turning his attention towards helping musicians with his new service Distrokid. Read more »

Smartphones, tablets, and computers have made the digital distribution of entertainment media a major industry in the last decade.  While the first major changes came in the music and film industries, recently the publishing industry has seen major shifts towards digital markets as well.  However, it’s not only prose that people read on their computers and mobile devices these days.  With his company Comixology, David Steinberger has helped to make comics a part of the digital publishing industry as well.  Comixology sells digital comics for reading on the web, on tablets, and on mobile devices.  Readers can buy comics in both the shorter, more traditional issue format or as larger collections of issues in many cases.  Comixology has allowed comics to storm on to the digital market thanks to the vision of its CEO, David Steinberger. Read more »