Can You Help Me Out With the Tween Tech Guy Challenge?
July 7, 2010 by confab
Filed under Confabulations
Tween Tech Guy
A few weeks ago, my husband and I got into a discussion with our children about starting businesses for themselves. We both started our own “businesses” at a young age and thought this would be a great way to begin teaching them the value of a dollar and how to make money on your own.
The discussion went surprisingly well. My daughter’s business idea was easy and straight forward. She is launching a pet sitting and dog walking service in our neighborhood. My son’s was a little more complex. He wants to provide IT services. He’s 10, so you can see there are just a few challenges with this one. Child labor laws, going into strangers homes… No thank you.
So, we decided that he could launch an tech advice column, through the supervised environment of my blog and “practice” until he is 16.
This would give him a few years to build up his knowledge base and his customer service and communication skills. The pay off for him is that it counts towards his writing grade for home school. Now I need some questions for him to answer.
I know, I know… I can hear what you are thinking through the ethers? Why would you want advice from a 10 year old? Well, I am not making big promises, but for the last year, he has served as the full time IT guy in our house. I have a partitioned hard drive with Mac and Windows, so he knows both systems. He installs software and hardware, optimizes computers, cleans up hard drives, finds and compares software, ap’s and other services. In some cases, he has done a better job than the professionals we hired.
So, would someone out there be brave enough to send me a few questions you want answered? If he doesn’t already know the answer off the top of his head, he will do some research for you and get back to you with a recomendation.
What do you have to lose?
P.S. Before applying any of his advice, you might want to get a second opinion. 
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Wow, that is fantastic! I will keep Frankie in mind when I have tech questions! Kudos to both for their business minds.
Thanks Gina,
Yes, you can ask him pretty much anything, so as soon as you think of something, send it my way. He wants to get going.
Frankie,
I have some old software on an old laptop and want to use it on my new one. I don’t have the cd anymore is there anything I can do?
Hi Jenny,
I knew someone would come through for me. I will get him working on it and he will get back to you with an answer. Thanks so much.
Kim
I have been Looking around for a while and the only way to transfer programs forlfree is VERY complicated, and would take anyone a long time to figure out. But, there is a $39.95 program that can move programs for you, and it is called “Move Me”.
Here’s The Link:
http://www.pcnet-online.com/downloads/moveme.htm
Just click on “Download Move Me Now!”,
and the downloader (The app that will download the software) will pop up. Click on “Run” or “open” on the box that comes up, and let it download. Then, the installer (application that installs the software) will pop up, and that will guide you through the proces.
Thanks Tween Techer. I could keep you in business with all of the issues I have in my personal IT world.
Hi Jen,
Keep them coming. He will answer! Thanks,
Kim
Frankie,
I see you have a gmail account too, so maybe you can help with my question. If I send an email to multiple recipients, all of the replies are combined into one email entry in my inbox. In other words, if I send an email about my daughters to let’s say 7 family members and each of the 7 recipients respond, instead of getting 7 separate responses (like 7 different emails in my inbox), I get one email entry that has 7 embedded emails within. It is very annoying, and in fact, I have sometimes deleted other people’s responses not knowing multiple replies were embedded within that email. Please let me know if you have any suggestions, or if that is just how gmail works and we cannot change settings.
Thanks,
Linny
I have that problem too, and it can get to be annoying. The way Gmail works is that when you click “Compose Mail” to another gmail client or someone writes you an e-mail, it starts a “conversation”. If anyone replies, Gmail adds the message to the conversation, and sends you a kind of notification with the link being the new message. When you delete say, the first reply, it deletes the whole conversation and any newer replies. So, after the conversation is deleted if anyone else replies, it starts another conversation with your first message and JUST their reply. any newer replies get added to that conversation and so forth. The deleting the whole conversation is just a bug Google hasn’t worked out yet.
So, to recap, it is just a setting of google. You can’t change it, and I find it annoying too. But I don’t don’t dlete e-mails
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Hope that helps!
The Tween Tech Guy
Frankie,
Your Mom mentioned that there is someplace on this site where I can sign up to receive a notice that she has posted a new item. Give me some direction.
PaPa
If you scroll to the top of this page you will see a little orange link that says “news feed” in the top right corner. click on it and then under confab select “subscribe to this feed”.
hope this helps
tween tech guy