Direct MP3 Download: Podnutz Daily #196 – Across the Pond with StraightTalkingIT
Jamie from StraightTalkingIT.com joins us this week to give some great tips about his computer repair business.
Topics discussed:
- Shop vs. working out of the home
- The merits of working on old machines vs. advising to buy a new one
- Buying local vs. going online for parts
- Using Evernote to store notes, Steve uses Google Docs
- The importance of communications with customers
- Don’t be afraid to talk to other techs in your area
- Office 2007 vs. office 2003 and experiences with outlook
- Point of sale systems (POS)
- Looking for info on toner dust filters
- Using a leafblower to blow out computers
- Life education vs. school
- Imap and pop3 email
- kaspersky rescue boot disk
- Avira rescue CD (rescue system)
- Bitdefender
- Vista sp2 problems, some problems during boot or logging in
- Malwarebytes
- Superantispyware
- Recuva for revering files
- Filehippo update checker
- Ketarin
- Lockable usb drives
- Secunia
- Nas drives, Steve bought a Buffalo LinkStation live
- FreeNAS
- Check cnet.com for editor and user reviews
- Microsoft SteadyState for protecting your system from changes
- Always have business cards on hand
- Take advantage of business networking
Emails/Voicemail
- RiDATA twister usb drives have write protect switches available at newegg and amazon
- Threatfire anti-virus
- Sandboxie runs your programs in an isolated space which prevents them from making permanent changes to other programs and data in your computer.
- Avira anti-virus
- Dealing with jobs they aren’t worth the time vs. the cost of the unit(such as inkjet printers)
- Removing u3 functionality from usb drives
- Setting up logmein remotely without giving away your account information atphilscomputerrepair
- Desktop remote software: Crossloop, Showmypc
- Combofix anti-spyware may or may not work with Vista, Steve thinks it works
- Podnutz.tiddlyspot.com doc browns xml for ketarin
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Notes by Mike Evans at datamike.net
