Computer Support Blog

Job interviews can be harrowing experiences.  Nervousness can negatively affect people’s performances and cost them the job they want, but it’s almost impossible to avoid getting nervous for such an important event.  Job interviews require people to think fast when coming up with answers while also appearing confident.  In many ways, performing well in an interview is a skill in itself.  Prept is a cool product that lets people work on this skill by contacting professionals who will perform mock interviews with them.  Jobseekers can use Prept to get help from experienced pros that will evaluate users’ mock interviews and give helpful feedback on their performances.  On the website, jobseekers can search through the company’s database of interviewers and select one appropriate to their career field.  They can then schedule a specific time to do a mock interview online through video chat.  In theory, these interviews simulate the experience and pressure of an actual job interview so users can prepare themselves mentally for the real thing.  Users with broken webcams will not be able to take part in the online mock interviews unless they get onsite computer repair to fix their cameras. Read more »

Using the Internet to network and increase your web of contacts in the professional world is hardly a new concept.  LinkedIn has been doing this for ages.  However, simply clicking a link to add another “connection” on your profile can be impersonal and even undermine the chance to make a true connection through networking in the first place.  This is why cool product Peer tries to add a more personal touch to online professional networking by incorporating video messaging and chats into the process.  Peer lets you make professional connections, leave video introductions and schedule video chats on your phone so you can make a real connection while networking rather than just a name on the screen.  The team at Peer believes this process can help facilitate stronger relationships through networking that will be more helpful than the typical ones made through social networking.  Currently, Peer uses LinkedIn to help users find others to connect with over their service.  If you do not have a LinkedIn profile and don’t know how to create one, you will need computer tech support to help you. Read more »

Video messaging is becoming more common due to the growing presence of integrated webcams in laptops and mobile devices, but most video messaging services require one of two things: either you and the person you’re messaging both install proprietary software, or you have to record your video message and save it to your computer before uploading elsewhere.  Cool product Eyejot aims to eliminate all inconvenience from the video messaging process.  Eyejot is purely browser-based, so it doesn’t require any software installation.  Eyejot also handles your video messages in the cloud when you record them, so you don’t have to worry about file management.  Essentially, Eyejot is taking the most convenient aspects from web-based e-mail services and applying them to the younger video messaging format.  Eyejot wants to make sending video messages as simple as e-mail for consumers.  They want to make it so that fewer people have to call computer support just to send video mail over the web. Read more »