The geek dream car!

I love small cars. One of my dream cars is a Datsun 2000 roadster, I also like the Datsun 240Z. My favorite car that I ever owned was a Honda Del Sol. I just love small cars. While I would love to get a Smart Car , I honestly need something with room for four because I have three kids that occasionally need rides to school. Today I saw the car that meets my needs. The Toyota Yaris Liftback . Now, there is no way I will be...

HELP!!!!!

I consider myself to be generally a smart guy. I also put my friend Adam in that same category. No one would mistakenly call us geniuses, but overall we can hold our own. However, when it comes to this web site/radio show, we need help. The radio show will be 8 years old next year and have little to show for it except for helping lots of people and having some laughs along the way. We enjoy doing the show and helping people,...

Send this article to EVERYONE you know…

REALLY! The health of your computer, your friend's computer, your neighbor's computer, the government computers, my computer are all at stake. Heck, economies world wide depend on the information I am about to repeat to you and you HAVE to forward it every computer user you know! REALLY! I cleaned up a laptop today that belonged to a sophomore in college. She readily admitted that she knew very little about her...

“I thought you would be much older”

I get this funny comment at many of my new client appointments. Actually, just the new client appointments who figure out that I'm not a rich talk show host who lives in Bermuda during the week. The conversation usually starts with, "We listen to your show all the time and really enjoy it". Then they hit with me, "I sure thought you would be a lot older." I never know quite how to respond to that...

The Next Great Novel

The next great novel is gone. Why? Because there was no backup copy of the document and the original has disappeared. This was one of the voice mail message I retrieved this morning as I started my week. It breaks my heart, but it is a hard lesson that the computer user will never again forget. With the plethora of backup options available to us today (online, second computer, hard drive, ZIP drive, flash drive, and even the...

“I can’t find stuff on your web site&#...

We get this comment more often than we would like. I'm going to split the responsibility between our web site design and web surfing experience of the folks who tell us they have trouble navigating our site. Our site has gone immense changes in the past year…for the better. If you might be in the camp who thinks that our current site is tough to navigate, you may have never returned to our old site after an initial...

You are wasting money!!

Yes, YOU are wasting money if you don't take advantage of this web site, our newsletter and the radio show. One common trait that Adam and I share (despite occasional thoughts to the contrary by our wives), is that we hate wasting money on technology. Of course, we love technology, but we don't like throwing money at it unnecessarily. Not too many technology nerds will tell you not to upgrade your Windows 98....

What do Rick and Adam do during the week and what ...

A common misconception is that Adam and I spend our week sunning ourselves with our families on some exotic beach before returning to our mansions and counting our stacks of $100 bills. Nothing could be farther from the truth. I own and operate a business called Grand Valley PC Partners in Grand Junction, CO. All my business is onsite home and office calls to help computer users get out of trouble, setup up new systems or...

Travelocity: Should I believe the gnome?

Whenever I am not at a client’s home or office working on a computer, I am likely driving in my car to see a client. As I drive in my car I listen to a lot of talk radio. I don’t really care what show it is, I just enjoy something besides the same 50 songs that music stations play.  I have noticed that many talk radio shows all use the same advertisers; this is primarily because they are on the same networks....

Read the bubbles

Computer software makers have tried to make software easier to interact with over the past ten years. The problem is us…not the software. I equate the problems with computers with the problems we have faced for ever in real life. Doctors tell us not to smoke…it’ll kill you. What do we do? Smoking, although relegated to streets and alleys, remains insanely popular and kills millions every year. Don’t...

Simple Advice to Protect Your Computer and Your Sa...

This tip, if followed, could substantially limit the number of phone calls we get on the radio show and put a dent in my computer troubleshooting and training business. I can sum up the entire tip in one phrase you have heard me utter many times on the radio show: "If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it."   I know ain’t isn’t a word, but if AOL can say "You’ve got...