More Services

The thing I hear the most when people watch me work is: “How did you do that?” Unlike any good magician, I am happy to reveal my secrets.

Here is an extensive list of all the type of services I can help with:

• Spare computer components for loan to minimize downtime.
  • Hard drives
  • Mice, Keyboards, and other peripherals
  • Cables (Network, Video, Power, USB)
  • Printers
• Helping with ordering hardware and software.
• Installation of Operating System and other software
• Building high-end gaming systems with balanced acoustics and performance.
• Quality Photo scanning. Printed photos as well as negatives 35mm and slides. ($0.65 per frame)
• Video capture and conversion. Digitize your old home videos from the 80’s and 90’s and preserve those memories.
• MiniMediaMirror. Custom software created by yours truly.
  • Have a lifetime of photos and videos? My family likes to take tons of photos.
  • How about over 150,000 photos and another 3,000 of videos (72 hours worth)? That’s over a terabyte!
  • Create a compressed copy of all your videos and photos to have in your pocket.
  • Do you only have 256GB capacity on your phone? No problem.
  • The whole collection is compressed down to 88GB and you can’t see any difference in quality on your phone.
• Network hardware setup
  • Running Ethernet cables
  • Terminating RJ45 jacks
  • Setting up routers and switches.
  • Setting up Wi-Fi
• Databases
  • MySQL
  • Microsoft Access
  • Extensive Raiser’s Edge knowledge with administration experience. Master of importing and exporting data.
  • Quality of address formatting.
  • Data cleansing – A strong eye to spot and fix data, or I can take the time be thorough with seriously meticulous detail.
• NAS configuration and setup
• Microsoft Storage Sapces
• Use of AI such as ChatGPT, Gemini
• Scripting with AutoHotkey, Command Line, Powershell, Python,
• File structure and organization expert.
• SharePoint
• MS Teams
• Outlook
•  Word
  • Merge Templates
    • Receipts with merge fields
    • Label printing
• PowerBI
• Excel formulas
  • Master of all formulas. Very adept at data transformation.
  • Verbose cheque style numbers
  • Pay Period text format calculations
  • Batch file processing – Rename files, Convert videos, Tag photos
  • Credit card statement processors – RBC, TD PDF credit card statement translate to CSV data
  • Complex but practical financial ledgers.
• Deleted file recovery. Accidentally deleted a file? Accidentally deleted a folder? Accidentally deleted all files? Accidentally wiped the whole drive? Yes, I can recover it. Purposefully wiping the data? Yes, I can help permanently wipe sensitive data.
• Syncthing – Make a live copy of your data across devices. Use cases: Take a photo on your phone and have it immediately show up in a folder on your computer.
• OBS streaming setup
• Build websites
• Complimentary Website Hosting
• Fun projects
  • New Year’s Countdown millisecond video sync. Blow up the Death Star at midnight.
  • Movie Trivia game
  • Jeopardy! Play-along game system.
  • Wordle Calculator. What’s the next best guess? Where there other answers? AI can’t beat my Wordle solver and it’s 100% Excel based.
• Android systems
  • Tasker automation
  • Car Dashcam with your phone.
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It might be better to just tell you things I don’t do well. Not that I can’t.

• Linux
• Macintosh products. Though one time I was helping an archivist with software updates on her Macbook. This happened to be the first time using MacOS. After working on it for a couple of minutes, I quickly figured out the system and she thought I was an expert in Mac products (until I asked her how to right-click.)