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Ian Farquhar is owner and technician at Farquhar Tech. A web design and computer service company based in Oracle, Arizona.

Big city security in a small town

  Whether you live in the big city of Tucson or the hamlet of Oracle your PC and your website live in the world wide web. This blog is a reminder that even though we may live in a secure and easy going town where we leave our car unlocked as we run into the [...]

Client Q &A for March

One of our monthly care website clients’ asks: Do you know why the website is larger when it is opened in Internet Explorer than with Chrome?  The overall size, and also font size, of your website is browser-dependent; which means that each browser chooses font size and zoom size based on preset or user-defined settings. [...]

Is Your Website Asleep?

Wake the sleeping dragon with content When discussing websites with clients I find myself stumbling into the same word again and again: content. Content is the information each web pages hold – it’s the words that your visitors and the search engines read. Content is the key to a quality website that gets found. Design [...]

Avoiding the “Windows Update” mistake

So you think your machine is all up-to-date do ‘ya? You have a virus program that seems to be chugging along and everything appears to be secure and stable? Nothings popped up telling you that your out-of-date program is dangerously insecure – so tally-hoe! Lack of updated Windows and virus protection is, in  my opinion, [...]

Spotify Rocks. Seriously.

First and foremost, I love Spotify. Why? Because I love music, lots and lots of music, at my fingertips, always. It’s a DJ, a musical dictionary, an entertaining toy, and a very complete selection of music. What is it? A small web-connected app that runs on my laptop and desktop that gives me instant search [...]

Dusting isn’t just for nic-nacs

Take care of your computer and it will take care of you As a reminder for everyone to maintain their computers I thought it include this photo of the dust ball I pulled out of an Dell laptop recently. The machine was suffering from random shutdowns and the client complained of it being HOT. I [...]

The times [Google's algorithm], they are a changin’

Changes to Google’s algorithm have been in the news a lot over the past month – and for good reason. This is big business and should be bigger news. When the world’s largest pathway to the Internet’s boundless info and profit possibilities changes what it displays people best take note.   Google’s Search Tweak Puts [...]

RAM makes all the difference

Upgrade your RAM, increase your productivity I just finished adding 2 GB of RAM to a client’s computer and wow!… This RAM, or Random Access Memory, is solid state memory that is installed in your computer and forgets when the power is turned off.  It is used to swap information around when the power is [...]

The solution is: claim your places

I was talking with a local small business owner who was looking to begin building his web presence. His small but successful landscaping business has taken off over the last two years and he’s looking at the web as the obvious next step for increased visibility in his market. We both agreed a simple well-branded [...]

Netbook or laptop? Make a good decision based on your needs

It’s time to buy a new computer to cart around with you where ever you go and all those little tiny, itsy-bitsy computers that are floating around seem perfect. These days there are literally a hundred and one options for you next portable computer, and prices range from a few hundred dollars to well over [...]