Author Archives: Tony Pirog

My computer freezes and hesitates. What should I do?

Posted on May 9, 2013 by Tony Pirog

If your computer freezes and hesitates, here’s what you should do. Continue reading →

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Top Ten Tips for Business Owners and Managers

Posted on March 23, 2013 by Tony Pirog

Originally Top Ten Business Tips for Techs By Tony Pirog Posted: March 23, 2013 I received this timely reminder in my mailbox this morning. I’ve been feeling a little jaded lately and feel I haven’t had the “right” attitude toward … Continue reading →

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MacOS vs Windows vs Ubuntu

Posted on March 7, 2013 by Tony Pirog

We’ve observed that MacOS is slow, clunky and cumbersome compared to Windows. Whenever we’ve installed Windows on a Mac, it ran much faster than MacOS. I decided to install it on my Mac Mini. We were literally blown away by how much faster and smoother it is than MacOS! Continue reading →

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How to View Excel 2007 and 2010 Spreadsheets Side-by-Side

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Tony Pirog

  So, you’d like to open up two versions of an excel spreadsheet to compare differences row-by-row. Seems simple, right? Just open them both up in separate windows and then arrange the two windows side-by-side. Just kidding, it’s not that … Continue reading →

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How to rebuild your iTunes library

Posted on January 21, 2012 by Tony Pirog

A customer came to us looking to clean up his iTunes duplicates and rebuild his iTunes library. As we searched the web for answers, we found that no one seemed to have a good solution so we ended up figuring … Continue reading →

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Email links not working? Here’s the work around…

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Tony Pirog

Copying the email address works in Firefox, Opera, and Chrome. Surprise! It doesn’t work in Internet Explorer! Since we don’t recommend IE anyway, we suggest you not use it for this purpose. That’s it. Piece of cake, right?  Tony and Dave. … Continue reading →

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How to prevent your phone and voice mail from being hacked

Posted on July 24, 2011 by Tony Pirog

By Computech. (Click here for the original article.) In the wake of recent events overseas it has become clear that we need to be more aware of how important securing our phone and voice mail is. The hacking scandal in Great … Continue reading →

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