In the single year I’ve been writing about Bitcoin in the Kelowna area, it’s price has gone from the $1k ballpark to the $20k briefly and down to around the $4k mark now, a full year later. Whoever chose to invest this time last year has had a wild ride,…
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The World of Bitcoin in Kelowna BC Canada
Kelowna BC, Canada appears to have a bipolar view of itself as a general rule. On the one hand, it continues to be known as the fruit basket of Canada, exporting agricultural goods around the world and winning awards with vine and tree fruit every year. On the other hand,…
Reaching Millenials with Your Business’ Focus! How do You stack up?
Great article by Freshbooks, the company I have used for my invoicing and basic bookkeeping needs since 2010. How does FACT Computer Services stack up against the proposed challenge list presented in the above article? Let’s take a look: Marketing to Millennials: #1 Embrace Multiculturalism FCS is open to all…
The Transformation of tech support at FCS from 2001 to 2013!
It all began back in 2001 as a financial advisor set me on the path to running my own tech support business. That first year was rocky and it would be well into the second year by the time I hooked up with Yourtechonline.com. For six years I serviced international…
Humerous Look at Common Do’s and Don’ts of the computer world.
Do press the power/on button to turn your computer on. DO NOT press the power/on button to turn your computer off unless directed by a technician. If you are your own technician, then only do so in cases of extreme lock up that you can’t get free of no how!…
So How Strong is Your Password Anyway?!
Did you hear the one about the guy who got locked out of his bank account? You did? Oh ok, hope it wasn’t you. . . You see, bloggers are writing about password safety again since LinkedIn and a few other sites recently had their lists of usernames and passwords…
AVG Offers FREE Rescue CD to AVG Free and Full Purchase Customers
http://www.avg.com/us-en/avg-rescue-cd#tba2 Various situations involving a PC that could nolonger boot, have come across my desk over the past 12 years, sometimes due to boot viruses, sometimes due to other reasons that mess up the boot sector of the harddrive, and I have found myself coaching clients to find their OS…
The New Wild Frontier. . .
It’s not so new really, but it seems new to many people who are discovering for the first time that they aren’t as safe online as they thought they were. PC World and other journalist magazines out there that chronicle what is happening in IT circles on and off the…
C is for Cookies
C is for Cookies, that’s good enough for me. C is for Cookies, are they really safe? Um, no! That’s not how that song goes! Of course cookies are safe! I bake them every Christmas! No one’s died eating my cookies yet! What are you talking about?! There is a…
The (File) Name Has It!
I have two friends named Mary. One lives in Canada, the other in the States. The one in Canada hates baseball but loves Lacrosse, the other can’t stand hockey but could live at the baseball diamond. But because they both have the same name, how am I to know who…