Computer Support Blog

Many tech blogs have coined the term “sharing economy” to describe the phenomenon that has started occurring with sites AirBnB and Uber.  These sites circumvent traditional commercial models for new models that encourage consumer-to-consumer transactions.  AirBnB allows people to rent out extra rooms or apartments to people so users don’t have to pay expensive hotel rates.  Uber lets people share rides with drivers to avoid paying for expensive taxis.  This sharing model has disrupted industries and created much controversy, as well as several legal battles with established industries.  Despite these setbacks, the movement continues to push forward and even expands with the help of cool people in technology like Victor Miron, the founder of UseTogether. Read more »

Social networks like Pinterest have grown subcultures within themselves where users post and share craft projects and do-it-yourself scenarios.  There has proven to be great interest in social networking as a tool to help people create and not just entertain themselves or communicate.  Foodzai is one such social network that is joining this trend.  This cool product allows people to post, share, and review recipes.  While Pinterest has started to help people create crafts, Foodzai wants to harness similar energy to help people share and create different types of food.  Foodzai encourages users to create personal “cook” profiles and post recipes publicly on the site.  Each recipe contains detailed instructions, an ingredients list, and pictures of the final product.  Cooks can also post pictures of the process on their recipe pages, but that is an optional addition to each post.  Anyone who wants to join Foodzai, but has trouble creating an account can seek the appropriate help through a computer support company. Read more »

Productivity can take a hit when a company’s staff spends a significant amount of time on little tasks that don’t have to do with their primary work.  Copies, data entry, taking surveys, going out and buying supplies, and even just cleaning the office space can take precious time away from employee’s important work.  This problem caused cool person in technology, Tim Fung, to found a startup dedicated to helping companies take care of these small tasks.

Fung is the CEO of Airtasker, which provides both businesses and individuals with freelance help for the extra tasks that distract people from their primary goals.  In theory, Fung’s company supplies a business with workers who will efficiently handle smaller tasks and allow full-time employees the ability to focus on what they need to finish rather than the extra tasks that normally fill up their time.  Read more »

It may sound like a small issue, but in truth, the font used for the typeface a company chooses for their website is actually quite important.  Any visitors to a business’s website spend more time reading the content on the site than doing anything else there.  The typeface on a website can make a company seem professional, edgy, bland, cheesy, or intelligent. Any web designer knows how important making the right choice can be to the visual presence of a company.

Fontdeck is a cool product that provides a large variety of fonts that users can integrate into their websites.  On the Fontdeck website, the company keeps a marketplace of different typefaces available for companies to use on their own sites.  Fontdeck has hundreds of professionally styled fonts available at any given time for companies to purchase.  The company prices their fonts individually for any users that wish to use them.  Fontdeck also tries to make it as easy as possible for companies to integrate any purchased typefaces into their websites.  Users only have to input some lines of code in order to render the font they want on the web.  Any companies without the proper technical staff or business IT support will still need help integrating any Fontdeck fonts. Read more »

While ridesharing apps like Uber and Lyft have gained significant momentum, the most common way for most people to get a ride in a major city is still an old-fashioned yellow cab.   There is still a way to use technology to make it easier for people to find a ride even when they want to take a taxi.  Cool product Hailo is a mobile device that allows users to hail cabs with their smartphones or tablets.  Rather than calling a taxi company and potentially ending up on hold for a long time, people can just open up their phones and tap away to call a ride right away with Hailo.  This cool product wants to erase the uncertainty of trying to find a cab on the street.   The app lets people call cabs specifically for them, rather than hope to catch taxis that are simply passing by the area.  Hailo wants to revolutionize the urban transportation industry in order to get people service in an on demand capacity just as many other industries, such as remote computer support, have in recent years. Read more »

Since streaming media and cloud services like cloud computer support have finally reached a level where they are easy to scale, more and more service businesses are using subscription models.  Subscription models allow these companies to provide ongoing services that make it easier for many people to afford.  Many people who otherwise would not be able to purchase certain forms of entertainment or other kinds of services have the chance when a cheaper monthly price becomes standard.  However, many small businesses and startups who want to use a subscription model do not have the proper resources or infrastructure to institute a large automated billing system.  That’s where Krish Subramanian steps in to provide help with his company ChargeBee. Read more »

Most companies and individuals running servers for hosting purposes use air cooling systems to keep their servers’ temperature.  Overheating is a major problem and can lead to needing onsite computer repair services that are very costly.  Iceotope is a cool product that provides an alternative in inefficient air cooling systems for customers’ servers.  This cool product uses liquid cooling technology to cool servers so that it can maintain server systems more effectively.  With liquid cooling systems, servers are less likely to malfunction due to overheating.  It also takes less effort to maintain optimal temperatures in server rooms with Iceotope powering the cooling system for a server.  With Iceotope on the market, it’s hopeful that it will be easier to keep server temperatures under a reasonable amount of control. Read more »

Infographics have become a very popular medium on social media and on Internet news sites.   Juxtaposing striking images and informative text has proven to be an engaging and effective way of informing the public or promoting an advertising campaign.  However, it takes a lot of skill and research to be able to pump out a quality infographics, and not everyone who needs them has the time to create them.  That’s why cool product Visually exists on the web.  Visually acts as an online marketplace where anyone can commission visual content for an advertising push, awareness campaign, or any other purpose.  Visually has a network of content creation professionals that the site taps into whenever it receives a request for a new piece of visual content.  Visually charges a flat rate for individuals and businesses that use its marketplace.  This pricing plan is in place to avoid disagreements or price fluctuations or changing process as can sometimes happen with design projects.  Visually wants buyers’ experiences to be consistent.  Any interested users who have trouble operating or accessing the Visually website should seek help from an online computer support provider. Read more »

For many years, independent business owners had to spend time learning how to use design tools such as Photoshop if they wanted to create their own business card or letterhead.  With modern mobile technology however, cool people like Ellen Johnston have made it much easier to create a design for a small business that is truly someone’s own.  Johnston founded a company called Makr that creates an iPad app, which provides small business owners with a simple design suite that lets them customize their own paper materials such as business cards, labels, letterhead or anything else.  Johnston works to ensure that the Makr design tools on the iPad app strike a good balance between being simple to use and capable of total customization.  She wants independent crafters and business owners to have no problem creating designs they can claim for themselves regardless of technical knowledge needed for programs like Photoshop.  According to Johnston, no one should ever have to call iPad tech support just to navigate the Makr app and start designing. Read more »

There are services that allow people to share images with friends and family in multiple ways.  Facebook and Twitter allow people to post or tweet images publicly to other users.  SMS service allows people to send private photos, as does SnapChat, though the latter deletes photos once a recipient has seen them.  However, these apps and services keep image sharing in a bubble of sorts, at best allowing people to accompany photos with a text caption.

Cool product Lutebox breaks away from this standard by combining image sharing with voice-chat over the web.  Lutebox essentially combines voice-chat services like Skype or Viber with image sharing services like Instagram or SnapChat to produce a new experience that conveniently combines the two.  Lutebox is hoping to appeal to people who want to share media with each other as they speak, whether for personal reasons or professional ones.  With this cool product, users don’t have to switch back and forth between apps or waste battery life on a phone call in order to share pictures with someone while speaking to them.  Lutebox users that have trouble connecting to the service may want to consult a smartphone computer repair company to ensure that their wireless receivers are working properly.  Read more »