Are you ready for Cyber Monday?

Remote Techy - We Make Your Technology WorkCyber Monday is no longer just an ‘idea’.  Its real.  With thousands of e-commerce stores competing for your business, Cyber Monday has grown into a huge ‘deal’ with almost 20 million more Americans shopping online than in actual stores last year, and Cyber Monday is considered the power shop day.  There are deals to be had, and this Monday falls on a date which almost ensures you will receive your purchases in time to wrap and place under the tree…almost. [Read more...]

Brighthouse Customer Service Fails


I have always been an advocate for the Brighthouse cause.  Providing excellent cable, internet and phone services.  Fast speeds, and what I thought was above-average customer service.  Well until now.  My 9 to 5 job requires me to provide remote customer support and service via phone, email and chat daily.  Often, delivering service to in-home subscribers, I have to deal with some of the major bundled ISP services, and often hear about the giants out there, delivering the worst possible service available.  One of the biggest I see and hear of, has always been Comcast.  I took a recent trip to North Carolina, and read an in-flight article, an excerpt from a best-selling book titled ‘Your Call is (not that) Important to us‘.  An interesting read with some very explicit and amazing tales dealing with this network providing giant, and the customer service nightmares that have unfolded.  And I was thinking as I read, how lucky I was to have Brighthouse.  Although they had laxed some over recent months, I thought Brighhouse was offering better service than others, at least here in Central Florida.  I was content and secure.  I was wrong…. [Read more...]

Strange Creatures Walk through Yard in Fresno


Are they aliens, a hoax, or maybe some strange undiscovered wildlife sneaking through a Fresno yard in the middle of the night?  Hard to say.  This is a little off topic for most of what Inforats publishes, but we do like to solve problems, and this one is worthy of note, especially when no conclusive results have been found.  This video was introduced and investigated on the new show, Fact or Faked.  It was filmed using CCTV.  The man installed the security camera after there had been some thefts in and around his property’s front yard.  On this night, he was woke by his dogs barking, and went out to investigate.  Found nothing, so went back and reviewed the tapes and found these spooky images. [Read more...]

Your website in the past

Ever wonder what your website looked like a long time ago?  Maybe you owned it and were just getting started, or perhaps someone else owned the domain before you.  A unique little tool called the WayBack Machine by web.archive.org allows you a look at how a URL appeared years ago.  It really is amazing to watch how technology trends impact how websites have grown.  Here are a few examples.  Click on the images for a close look: [Read more...]