Computer Support Blog

Every great mobile application starts with an idea.  The effort and resources it takes to turn that idea into a working prototype that you can show to others costs serious amounts of time and money.  POP (Prototyping on Paper) is a cool product that makes the process of demonstrating your idea for a mobile application quicker and easier.  All you need for POP to turn your idea into a working prototype is a pen, paper, and a smartphone.  POP turns your sketches and drawn concepts for an app into prototypes that you can show others on a mobile phone.  You simply take a picture of your concept’s sketch with your smartphone’s camera, and, in POP’s own app, you can edit it to create a functional design with buttons and links to show off your concept to others.  POP is available on iPhone with an Android version in development.  If POP gives you technical issues, smartphone tech support can help you get the app working properly. Read more »

It’s one of the most common problems people have: lack of time.  Many of us have so many things to do in our lives that we forget the smaller tasks, even when they’re important.  Only the most affluent among us can hire personal assistants to take care of those smaller tasks and ensure they are completed.  However, Ted Roden is a cool person in technology that envisions a future where his service, FancyHands, allows everyone the benefit of a personal assistant.  FancyHands is an online service that Roden created where members can immediately request the completion of any task that doesn’t require a physical presence.  You can assign any scheduling, research, calls or other Internet and phone-based tasks that you need done to the FancyHands team.  Roden and his team use tech to make this process even easier with a mobile app that simply lets users speak their request into their phone.  Roden has created a system where anyone can free up their time with the help of a virtual personal assistant. Read more »

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 »

Keller Rinaudo, the CEO of Romotive, is a cool person in technology that wants to put robots that improve people’s lives in every home.  While you’re probably wondering if this is science fiction, it’s true that Rinaudo has already taken the first steps towards his goal with his company’s first product: Romo.  Romo is a robot that has a tank-like base that contains an iPhone dock and wheels.  The iPhone itself displays the robot’s face when connected. Users can control Romo through an iOS app that allows you to program its behavior.  You can program Romo for basic things such as being happy to see you when it recognizes your face through the iPhone camera. However, you can also have it do more complex tasks, such as rolling away from you to prevent you from pressing snooze when the iPhone alarm goes off.  If you have trouble programming Romo on your iPhone, smartphone computer support is probably a good option for you. Read more »

Mobile solutions for banking purposes have grown incredibly popular.  Nearly every major banking institution has a mobile app these days for users to manage their finances on the go.  The founders of GoBank have noticed these trends as well and have launched a bank with a new model focused entirely on mobile.  GoBank has no physical branches, but has instead designed a system to allow its customers to handle their banking entirely via mobile apps.  GoBank is hoping to save users time and money by preventing the need for them ever to drive to physical banks to make transactions.  In theory, if everything you need to bank is in a mobile app, you never have to leave home or work to manage your finances at all.  This cool product wants to take the partial mobile solutions offered by other banks and advance them towards a completely new model for banking. Users who need help using the GoBank app should seek mobile tech support when in trouble.  Read more »

Have you ever imagined being able to manage your postal mail as quickly or conveniently as e-mail?  Jason Seriff certainly has imagined it.  In fact, he probably imagined quite a few different ways to accomplish the feat while he was developing snail mail management software as Outbox CTO and cofounder.  Seriff is a cool person in technology who founded Outbox with the hopes of creating a system that made handling postal mail digitally simple for people everywhere.  Along with cofounders Will Davis and Evan Baehr, Seriff set out to make people’s lives easier by erasing the need to handle physical mail that you don’t want to manage.

Outbox is a service that allows you to handle your postal mail via the web, iPhone, or iPad.  Once you sign up for the service, you give the company access to your mail.  Outbox then collects your mail, scans it and stores the files.  Users can then use Seriff’s software to view and manage their snail mail digitally on their computer devices.  Read more »

Many of us have faced the struggle of trying to find a parking space in a crowded city.  Few things are more frustrating than reaching your destination but having to drive around for way too long to find a parking spot when you want to be out of your car already.  Fortunately, there is a cool product out there that can help make parking a less frustrating experience.  The ParkMe app is available for both iOS devices like the iPhone and the iPad as well as mobile Android devices.  It is an app that tracks parking availability in real time in major cities all across the country.  The app tracks both public parking spaces as well as private parking garages, giving you access to information on as many choices for parking as possible.  The app allows you to check availability in different parts of the city and allows you to choose your best options for parking accordingly.  If the version of Android on your mobile device gives you issues, you should talk to Android tech support for help. Read more »

There are many services that provide Internet radio, but the vast majority of these services, like Pandora, focus on the musical aspect of radio as opposed to talk radio or spoken word content.  G.D. Ramkumar and his company Concept.io are looking to remedy this with the release of their new mobile app Swell.  Ramkumar believes that consumers would engage with a discovery platform for talk radio content as much as they have for personalized Internet music services.  That’s why he’s had his company focus on the creation of Swell in an attempt to offer smartphone users an easy way to find great spoken word content tailored specifically to their interests and tastes.  Ramkumar sees Swell as an opportunity to make spoken word content accessible and easy for mobile users to enjoy.  Those interested in Swell that have trouble installing it on their iPhone should contact iPhone tech support.  Concept.io CEO G.D. Ramkumar is obviously a cool person in technology who knows how to find new potential markets and capitalize.  Read more »

There has long been an argument about the sound quality of digital music.  Many lament the loss of quality in digital music files due to compression.  However, David Wiener and his company Aphex are working towards eliminating the quality problem with digital music.  Wiener’s company Aphex is an audio company that makes professional audio and recording equipment for musicians.  However, they’ve recently expanded into the consumer digital music space as well. Wiener and his company have released their Audio Xciter App for Android and iOS.  This new app is not just another mobile music player.  It actually incorporates technology that Aphex has used in its professional products to increase the sound quality of all the digital files you play.  Unlike music players that simply play the compressed audio of a standard music file, Aphex’s app allows for high quality playback to improve consumers’ listening experience.  Wiener is a cool person in technology driving his company towards making high quality digital audio available to anyone with a smartphone.  If you need help installing the app or getting it to work, find smartphone tech support for help. Read more »

While there are a lot of funny pictures or moments that we like to share with our friends on social media, we don’t always want those pictures permanently archived on the Internet.  Evan Spiegel, the CEO of Snapchat, has created a mobile application that tries to resolve this conflict between the desire for long-term privacy and the need for social connection.  Snapchat is an app that lets users send pictures they take back and forth in real-time in a conversational manner, but also deletes those pictures forever after specified period of time.  Spiegel’s vision has resonated with consumers all over the world.  This is clear from the fact that Snapchat is consistently a top ten app in Apple’s App Store for the iPhone.  Spiegel has worked to create a space where people can share their day-to-day moments without the fear of long-term embarrassment.  Many users concerned with online privacy and Internet security have clearly been waiting for a service to provide that opportunity.  Spiegel is definitely a cool person in the tech industry who has capitalized on a simple but effective idea. Read more »