Technology Tips
July 28, 2010
In honor of our ten years in business and successfully taking care of all of your computer problems in Carson, Reno and Minden. We thought it would be fun to take a look at how far computers have come since the year 2000!
July 06, 2010
With the warmer weather finally upon us you might start noticing the heat that certain electronics in your home emit while you are trying to stay cool. For some electronics like a plasma TV this is normal, your computer however should not be running hot. The cooling system
June 02, 2010
Cloud computing is the latest and greatest in buzz words floating around in the tech world, but what does it really mean? The “cloud” in the tech world refers primarily to the internet which in one way makes sense since it is not tangible like say a book or a card file in a library. Cloud computing is a rather general term
May 03, 2010
We all have had experience with the dreaded feeling of our computer not connecting to the internet, and Murphy’s Law dictates that this typically will happen either late at night or on a weekend when a big project is due! Here are a few steps you can try on your own to restore your connection and get back up and running.
April 01, 2010
A dual monitor set up can be beneficial in both a business setting as well as in your own home. When at work do you find yourself switching between two programs rather frequently?
March 02, 2010
Frequently clients ask us why their computer is running so slow despite the fact that they have a lot of space on their hard drive. This unfortunately is a common misconception amongst even the savviest of computer users, since a computer’s speed is not dictated by the size of the hard drive but is heavily influenced by the amount of memory (RAM) a computer has.
February 03, 2010
To start, the main things to consider when deciding whether to implement a wireless network or a cable-fed one are as follows:
1. Security
On the security side of this decision, one must consider the type of information traversing the network.
January 05, 2010
With the introduction of the new Microsoft Operating System Windows 7 in October 2009, we are starting to get many questions from our clients: Should they upgrade? Is Windows 7 like Vista?
December 02, 2009
Now that Thanksgiving is behind us, Christmas preparations are in full swing, baking cookies and other sweet treats, gift shopping, holiday parties, and of course cleaning and decorating the house.
October 30, 2009
Most commonly in our business we see and repair computers that are infected with a variety of Trojans, worms, viruses, spyware etc. As a matter of fact in the month of September 73% of our clients brought in their computers with symptoms ranging from not being able to connect to the internet, to computers not booting up, all of which were a direct result of the computer being compromised by some type of malicious software aka malware.
October 05, 2009
With the cooler weather, holiday shopping, and more time spent indoors, we always see a large increase of computer use among our clients. We rarely have slow times at DeBug, but we've found that fall and winter are probably our most active times.
August 28, 2009
The number one problem we encounter is with our customers computer’s performance. This is very often caused by the presence of spyware, viruses, and unneeded software. Some utilities we’ve found that are easy to use, and do a great job are the following:
March 20, 2009
There are many useful shortcuts that can help you get to where you want to go faster, or make things easier to do. Here are a few tricks:
December 23, 2008
Unfortunately in the age of MySpace, LiveJournal, Facebook, and various other social-networking sites, many children leave themselves almost completely exposed to child predators, identity thieves, and other privacy issues.
December 23, 2008
There is a large amount of money being spent on IT departments today. Sometimes $300k or more is spent on the IT staff alone and what is the rate of return on this investment? Not good at all. The industry experts at DeBug can fully out-source your IT department for typically one third of your investment. What could you do with some of that spare money? How about upgrading your computers, servers, and network equipment to increase efficiency?