33 Mostly Free Ways to Fix Your Family’s Tech Problems
A cheat sheet for addressing the whole family’s IT issues, from TV and computer to smartphone and internet
Home for the holidays? Before you crash in front of the TV, spend a few minutes tweaking the entertainment center to make the big-screen setup even better. WSJ’s David Pierce explains the settings you should change, the features you need to try and the accessories you might want to buy.
If you’re the tech-savvy person in your family, you know what the holidays really mean: getting ambushed by a year’s worth of tech-support questions. Why is everything slow? Where did those icons go? Can you really get an Amazon gift card by clicking on this survey? (Answers: Because, somewhere and NO!)
Since it’s the giving time of year, I present my cheat sheet for solving in-home information-technology problems. I can’t help with everything, and some issues will unfortunately involve customer-service calls. For that, I...