Another amazing year for the amazing folks at Y.A.N.A. and the geeks at My Tech Guys, this past year we have personally raised over $500 through some of our events and with our phone charging tent that we have at events like Musicfest, the Comox Air Show and many others. 

We were also very proud to provide the technical support at Y.A.N.A.'s yearly fundraiser auction, thanks to Bob Wells and all his hard work for that while being sick mind you too!

Here is a picture of our office geek, Bryan Tisdale and Y.A.N.A. executive director, Marcie Dumais and My Tech Guys owner, Bob Wells presenting our big bag of coins that we collect at last year's Musicfest from our phone charging tent.

It's 2015 and the 25th birthday of the World Wide Web, commonly referred to as the internet. Despite being just a blink of the eye on our human timeline, we are dealing with rapid changes and new discoveries everyday when it come to technology and the internet.

Our mission statement is to help our clients deal with this ever so fast changes, and start a conversation to help keep everyone up to speed! We want to invite you to respond to this newsletter with some questions, big or small that we can review and answer in the next issue!

If you have a specific question that you think everyone might want to know, submit it to us at newsletter@mytechguys.ca and we will pick one question to answer every month...the submitter will receive a free one hour in home appointment as a thank you for "asking a geek a question"!

"For now, we recommend SSD users be particularly careful not to risk unexpected power failures. There appears to be no way to minimize the problem, no specific drive has been put forth as ironclad, and even using SLC and super capacitors does not prevent corruption" says My Tech Guys owner, Bob Wells

This is even more important for people building servers as the data tends to be more critical and the possibility of a power outage or even a failing UPS could cause extreme havoc and stress.

To read more about this click on here.

Most of us are familiar with the little pop-ups we get asking us to install updates.  While they only take a few minutes to complete, many of us are guilty of postponing them or just ignoring them completely. But keeping up with these computer updates is actually very important when it comes to having a healthy and secure computer. These updates are just as important as having an anti-virus program. Sometimes the automagic updates can fail so we suggest checking to make sure you have the latest versions of the following once a month. 

 Some of the most common updates are:

• Windows or Apple OS updates
• Java (Update to the latest (Version 8.40) 
• Adobe Acrobat Reader (Version 11.0.10)
• Adobe Flash Player (Version 17.0.0.134)
• Microsoft Office
• Simply Accounting / Quickbooks 
• iTunes

If you have any questions or feel its been awhile since you've done any updates, call us and book a in-home service call or remote service call 250-890-1065

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Thanks for taking the time to check out our newsletter.  Always feel free to call, pop by our Comox or Courtenay stores, or send us a message if you have any questions or need help.

Sincerely,