Computer Support Blog

While many people make an attempt to grow healthy food at home, it can be difficult to optimize the growing conditions for fruits and vegetables.  Without the correct expertise, many who grow food in our gardens are merely making educated guesses about the best methods to treat plants.  Jason Aramburu is a cool person in technology who wants to change this by giving people the power to measure things such as the nutrient content, pH, temperature, and moisture of their soil accurately.  Aramburu wants to give people the appropriate help so they can grow healthy, sustainable food at home.  He calls the device and system that he’s developed to give people this help Soil IQ. Just as good computer support makes using technology easier for many people, Aramburu wants Soil IQ to have the same effect on those trying to grow their own food. With Soil IQ giving people the data they need to ensure they’re doing everything right to cultivate their own fruits and vegetables, Aramburu is hoping that more people will choose to grow healthy food at home in the future.  Read more »

When your company or organization is holding an event or sponsoring a conference, you want your visitors to engage as much as possible.  Lawrence Coburn is a cool person in technology who wants to help you keep attendees involved at all times by creating special mobile applications for your business’s events.  Coburn founded DoubleDutch in 2010 and since then has been helping companies get a better return on investment for every major social event or conference they hold.  Coburn’s company create apps that aim not only to help visitors get the most out of a company’s events, but also help each company optimize its events as much as possible in the future.  Coburn’s goal is to ensure that each event or conference a business holds provides as much benefit to the business as possible in the long run.  Read more »

So suppose for the moment that you are not driving your fully automated vehicle that drives itself where you want to go. How can you still get the greatest benefit from technology linked to your car?  You may already have a dashboard system that manages your onboard communications and security, but what about something that monitors your driving style?  Sure, user-based insurance policies have helped make safe driving cheaper.  Yet the cofounders of Driveway Software take issue with the current system.  The team has developed a completely free app, Drivewise.ly that helps “create new, safe drivers.” Read more »

You may soon be taking something new with you on your smartphone as you head over to your favorite venue.  You won’t want to leave home without Belly card installed as an app.  Your reward for scanning your Belly card may be to arm wrestle the chef for a burger or make like a monkey and grab a free banana.  In addition to unusual loyalty rewards like these, your Belly app will also tell you where you can get a Belly Bite – a free taste of something special.  Belly gets to know its partner merchants and customizes the rewards with unique options for every business. Read more »

It’s always the right time to throw a steak on the backyard grill.  An app from iDevices takes some of the pressure off the grill chef by monitoring your food via your Apple or Android device.  The app developed by iDevices may be the perfect solution for your next party or just right for the non-stop schedule you keep.  Read more »

Many people have experienced the phenomenon where you want to go back to a restaurant, hotel, or park, but you can’t quite remember the name of the place, making it impossible to look up online.  Matchbook is a cool product that makes sure this never happens to you again.  Through your smartphone’s GPS technology, Matchbook lets you tag the places you’ve been and the places you want to go.  With Matchbook, when you’re trying to remember where you went for Italian food that one night in January, all you have to do is whip out your smartphone and Matchbook will remind you.  You can tag locations with dates, time, and key words to look up later.  This could save many people frustrating nights of being unable to find the place they want to go because of unclear memories.  If you have trouble downloading Matchbook or getting your phone’s GPS to work properly, find smartphone tech support and get help. Read more »

Navigating large airports when you travel can be an excruciating process.  Often times, you don’t know where the nearest restroom is, you choose a poor place to get a meal just because it’s on the way to your gate, or you can’t find the currency exchange before your international flight.  Cool person in technology Mark Wagner knows that these issues plague travelers all the time and that’s why he’s created the AirportChatter app for the iPhone.  AirportChatter helps users manage their airport experience more effectively.  Wagner created the app to give travelers the resources they need to make their time spent in airports a much better experience.  Wagner’s app has a complete listing of shops, restaurants and ATMs in each of the U.S.’s thirty largest airports.  Each listing has spaces for customer reviews, so users can find out which restaurants and stores are their best bets as they wait for a flight.  The app can even tell you where the nearest restrooms are to your location within the airport.  If you have problems navigating the app, finding iPhone support should be your next step in getting it to work. Read more »

Bootlegging live recordings from concerts has been a tradition of many artists’ fan bases since long before the Internet came into existence.  However, due to a lack of professional recording equipment, most fan-recorded concerts have very poor sound quality.  Fan recordings also can be risky due to copyright issues if used outside of very specific settings and situations.  Lively is a cool product that lets people listen to live shows without any of the downsides of bootlegged recordings.  With Lively, you can listen to professionally recorded audio tracks of the concerts you attend as soon as the show is over.  If you want to relive an amazing performance you just attended, all you have to do is turn on your smartphone and download the concert right away.  Anyone who’s only experienced low-quality fan-recorded bootlegs will quickly realize the advantages of professional, high-quality recordings that they can conveniently access wherever they go.  For help downloading performances to your iPhone, find Apple support. Read more »

Keeping track of your receipts and warranties can be a serious pain.  It’s all too easy to misplace a receipt or forget how long you’ve had a product.  John Jackovin, the CEO of Bawte, is a cool person in technology who wants to solve these problems with his mobile application.  In his company’s own words, Jackovin wants to “make owning things simple.”  His smartphone app, Bawte, allows you to “tag” products you buy on your smartphone.  Once you tag a product, Jackovin’s app gives you access to warranty information and instruction manuals for that product anytime you want.  This would save customers from worrying about the paper trail when they make purchases and potentially save them hassle later on if they need to find a manual or warranty information quickly.  Bawte makes information about your products accessible whenever you want on your smartphone.  It even keeps track of when a warranty expires for each product you purchase.  For example, you can check the status of the warranties on your computer products and know when you definitely need to go to a local computer repair company for help because your product’s warranty isn’t viable anymore.  Read more »

Campus safety is an important issue as crime rates continue to be a cause for concern for many universities.  Most people wouldn’t immediately think of mobile applications as a technological tool that could help students remain safe on campus.  However, Dr. Gary Margolis is a cool person in technology that has developed exactly that—a smartphone app that students can use to keep safe while they’re at school.  Margolis and his team have developed Campus Sentinel, which gives college students a number of resources and tools to help them remain safe on campus.  The app lists detailed crime statistics for over 4,400 schools to help students remain informed about what’s going on around them.  This will hopefully help them make safer decisions as they go about campus life.    Read more »