Sunday, January 20, 2013

Use Google searches to access custom Tech Support

I found this cartoon titled, "Tech Support Cheat Sheet," created by XKCD, a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. 

This cartoon gives great advice. One of the best ways to get your own customized tech support is to do a Google search for a few key words relating to your problem. If you are getting an error, include a few words from the error in your search. Enclose a phrase from the error in quotes to narrow down the results. Another trick I use is to use the Search Tools to limit the time period to just results in the past year. This helps ensure I get results that are for a current version of the software or tool in question.

1 comment:

  1. Robin:

    GREAT add! I like the Alerts to keep me apprised of areas that I am building content on, writing about, and/or teaching...as well as keeping up with what the cloud is picking up on my own activities.

    Recently, I added a few boards to my Pinterest world, and don't ya know...it got picked up through a Google alert!

    ~kg (Kathleen Gradel, Fredonia)

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