Dear Technology Lovers: My name is Andy Walker and I am a technology journalist, TV personality and author. I also founded the website TechnologyTips.com. I’ve decide it’s time for me to start giving back because I have received so much from technology and the technology community in my life and career. So I want to […]
What is RAM, anyhow? It’s one of the words we hear whenever we talk about computers. Our testosterone-driven generation – and that includes even computer fanatics of female persuasion – is of the view that the more RAM, the better. Fine. But: what is RAM, anyhow? The official answer is that it’s not a word […]
TechnologyTips Media Inc. is a Toronto, Canada-based web-content company. Technology journalist Andy Walker founded it in 1998 and has owned it since. At its core is TechnologyTips.com, a site dedicated to helping people fix their computers. It was created out of the TechnologyTips column Andy authored in the Edmonton Journal between 1995 and 2000 to […]
There are all kinds of sites on the web that will try to help you should you encounter any problems, issues or challenges with your computer and computing. So, why yet another such site, you may ask. We have found no site that would be as interactive and responsive to our individual users’ needs as […]
It can happen to any one of us, from novice to top expert: our computer gives up on us. We DO tend to take these things rather personally. Your computer could have given up on improperly installed hardware. Or it could have given up on software it doesn’t like. But we all seem to think […]