(Please click on the links - there are many specialized topics listed within each category)
Consumer Electronics Session Catagory Offerings
Cell Phones, Wireless Home Communication, and Telephone Service Sessions
Home Entertainment System Sessions
Personal Electronics (PDAs, etc) & Game Console Sessions
Tivo/DVR, and Transferring Video to PC & DVD Sessions
Auto Electronics and Accessory Sessions
Consumer Electronics Consultation Catagory Offerings
High Definition TV Home Theater/Audio
Television Station Viewing (Cable vs. satellite vs. local stations)
Advanced Home Electronics
Just want someone you trust to talk to when you need assistance with technology?
A WiseGuy Technical representatives can help you with almost any item in the Consumer Electronics arena.
If you don't see a session or a consulting offering that helps you with your specific device or subject of interest,
please contact us and we will tailor an offering to your specific request.
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Electronics Session Offerings
Cell Phones, Wireless Home Communication, and Telephone Service Sessions
Understanding your Cell Phone
A session designed to help you use your cellphone and all its features. Also included is Cell provider feature training, like Using Call Waiting, Caller ID redial, etc.
Using your cellphone as a data tool (browsing the Internet, receiving and sending Text Messages)
A session designed to help you understand how to send and receive text messages with a cellphone, and how to send text messages to a cellphone via the Internet. Also included is training in using mobile websites, as many cellphones today have Internet browsing capabilities.
Installing and Using Wireless Home telephone systems
Telephones can be confusing today. Not only are they traditional communication devices, but can also be 2 way communication devices! This session is designed to help you understand how wireless home telephones work, why they operate on different frequencies, how multiple handsets can work with a single base station, etc.
Understanding Telephone services - Local Telephone Providers (SBC/AT&T) vs. Internet Providers (Comcast/Vonage)
LATA charges, FUSE charges, Long Distance, Local Toll....sound like a nightmare? A WiseGuy representative can help you understand all this confusion, by presenting it in easily understandable, precise, and simple terms, with pricing, packaging, and feature comparisons between land based telephone companies and Voice Over IP (VOIP) carriers.
Understanding Cell Phone Service Provider options and Services
Nextel/Sprint, Direct Connect, Cingular, AT&T, Mobile One, T-Mobile, pay as you go, call packages....this is the world of mobile communication that we live in today and the number of choices that it presents is confusing to many of us. A WiseGuy representative can help you cut through all this confusion, by presenting Cellphone service information and their options in easily understandable, precise and simple terms, with pricing, packaging, and feature comparisons between cell providers.
Configuring and Using Bluetooth Accessories with your Computing System, PDA, or Cell Phone
As of July 1, 2005, it is illegal within the City of Chicago to drive a vehicle while using a cell phone. Totally hands-free devices are available but are usually very expensive, and wired headsets are awkward and get tangled at the most inconvenient times, so many cell phone uses have chosen Bluetooth wireless audio headsets as an alternative to the costly hands free devices. This session is designed to help you learn the ease of Bluetooth technology while configuring and using your Bluetooth accessories. And if you have a computing system, this session will present alternatives that will allow you to use Bluetooth technologies to sync your PDA to your calendar without using a USB cradle, transfer address books from your PC to your cell phone, and operate printers!
Using GMRS & FRS (Family Band) Radios
Remember the CB craze of the early 1980's? Breaker, Breaker 19, ya got your ears on, good buddy?
Personal comunications have come a long way from these Citizens Band radios and the walkie-talkies that your children once used. GMRS & FRS Family Band radios are now the latest in family communication. With significant distance improvements, personalized frequencies, individual unit coding for secure communications, and significant improvements in hardware, these communication devices aren't just for kids anymore. A WiseGuy technical representative will present a session that highlights the advancements in GMRS family radio and demonstrates the ease of use of these devices, while providing pricing, packaging, and feature comparisons between radio manufacturers. A demonstration of FRS radio is included.
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Home Entertainment System & TV Sessions
Understanding and Controlling your Home Theater System and/or Audio System
Home theater, with its confusing Surround-Sound and huge video screens can be intimidating to the lay person. Our WiseGuy technical representatives understand this and can help you understand the operation of your Audio and Video equipment, allowing you to experience Theater-like sound and visual effects in your own home. Please allow up to 3 weeks for our representatives to properly tailor their presentation for your specific model of audio and/or video hardware.
Using your Remote Control
Frustrated in getting your remote to work with your new TV? And your new all-in-one remote wont work with your VCR too? Don't despair, a WiseGuy technical representative can help you configure your remote, whether it be new or not. And then we teach you how to operate your remote, in easily understandable, precise, and simple terms.
Too many Remote Controls? Finally, we have a solution!
We hear it all the time, a cable box, a TV, a VCR, an audio amplifier, a DVR, etc, and each has it's own remote! Why can't someone invent a REAL all-in-one remote control? Well, its happened, and not only will it control all your devices, but it can learn about any new device that you purchase in the future, and it can be programmed via your computer and an Internet connection. But what does this cost? And are there other options? This session is designed to allow a WiseGuy technical representative help you understand the latest in Remote technology, by presenting it in easily understandable, precise, and simple terms, with pricing, and feature comparisons between the available options.
Configuring and Using your HDTV
OK, you've made your purchase of a snazzy new HDTV. Now who's gonna connect that thing up and make it work, either as a free-standing unit, or as part of your Home Theater system? Don't fret, a WiseGuy technical representative can do it, and then teach you how to operate your latest toy, in easily understandable, precise, and simple terms. We have experience in working with all local HD channel providers, whether its from satellite or cable, and we can configure your system with most providers, and help you with your new remote too!
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Personal Electronics (PDAs, etc) & Game Console Sessions
Using your Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) & Synchronizing your data between your PDA and your computing system
OK, you have finally made the move from your well-worn address book into a Personal Digital Assistant. Now, what can you do with your PDA and how do you keep it current with the information on your PC? This session is designed to help you learn how to use a PDA, whether Palm OS based or Windows CE. Device functionality will be stressed, as these devices aren't just Address Books anymore. Data Syncing to your computing system or Internet-based address book or calendar is also addressed.
Configuring and Using a Game Console
Session still being developed, please contact us for information
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Tivo/DVR, and Transferring Video to PC & DVD
Understanding and Using your Tivo or DVR
The term "Tivo" has become synonymous with the act of recording a digital media event to a storage device, like a hard drive. Just go and Tivo it! But what does this really mean, hand how does Tivo compare to other manufacturers and providers of digital media, like Dish PVRs and DirectTivo? A WiseGuy technical representative will present a session that highlights the advancements in Digital Video Recorders and demonstrates via video the ease of use of these devices, while providing pricing, packaging, and feature comparisons between DVR/PVR manufacturers
Transferring your Tivo recordings to your PC and Burning DVDs
OK, so you now have a Tivo DVR, and you have a full season of your favorite TV show recorded. Yes, these recordings were easy to create, but now, how can you transfer them so you can save them to view later? This session requires a Tivo DVR, a wireless network in your home, and a computing system, and with those tools, and some downloaded software, a WiseGuy technical representative will present a session that will teach you how to transfer his recordings from his Tivo to his computer and then "burn" it to a DVD, so that you can watch your favorite show anytime.
Creating VCR tapes using your Tivo or any brand of DVR/PVR
If you don't have a DVD burner, or a home network, don't despair. You can still transfer your Tivo recordings to a VCR tape. This session requires any brand of DVR/PVR or Tivo and a standard VCR player/recorder, and with those tools, a WiseGuy technical representative will configure your VCR and Tivo units and will teach the you how to transfer your recordings from your Tivo to a VCR tape, so that you can watch your favorite show anytime
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Auto Electronics and Accessories
Installing and Using your GPS
Session still being developed, please contact us for information
Understanding Radar Detectors and Radar Jamming Systems
Session still being developed, please contact us for information
Installing and Using your portable Auto Video Player
Session still being developed, please contact us for information
Installing and using Satellite Radio Systems
Session still being developed, please contact us for information
Why use OnStar?
Session still being developed, please contact us for information
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Consumer Electronics Consultation Offerings
High Definition TV and Home Theater
What's all the Fuss about HDTV anyway?
A consulting offering designed to assist you in understanding the options available in Hi-Definition Television viewing. A WiseGuy technical representative will host a presentation that teaches you the jargon of HDTV, using terms like HD-Ready, HD-Compatible, LCD Display, Plasma screen, DLP, Rear-projection, etc. The presentation will then outline the sheer volume of choices in HDTV hardware, and the hundreds of channel viewing options available today via cable and satellite.
This amount of time needed for this consulting presentation is1 hour; questions will be answered following the presentation at no additional hourly charges.
Understanding Dolby Sound Systems
Is your Home audio system Dolby 5.1? 4.1? 6.1? 6.0? Do you have the latest in Dolby? Don't know? If not, this consulting offering is designed for you. A WiseGuy technical representative will host a presentation on what Dolby actually is, and why you would want to know what version you need for your Home audio system. This is a course in Audio 101, and especially designed for beginners and those interested in Home Theater and Surround-Sound.
This amount of time needed for this consulting presentation is1 hour; questions will be answered following the presentation at no additional hourly charges.
Understanding Wireless Home Audio Systems
With the advances in Home Audio in the last few years, entire homes can be prepared to have beautiful music and Theater Surround-Sound throughout. This can be accomplished either by traditional wired speakers, or with the proper equipment, done completely wirelessly. A WiseGuy technical representative will host a presentation on the advancements in Home Wireless Audio and share the pros and cons of this new technology.
This amount of time needed for this consulting presentation is1 hour; questions will be answered following the presentation at no additional hourly charges.
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Television Station Viewing
Cable vs. satellite vs. local stations
A consulting offering designed to assist you in understanding the many choices that are available today for Media viewing. A WiseGuy technical representative will host a frank discussion that outlines the viewing and pricing options of cable TV, Direct TV, Dish Network, and regular TV, and the hardware needed for each option.
This amount of time needed for this consulting presentation is1 hour; questions will be answered following the presentation at no additional hourly charges.
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Advanced Home Electronics
A computerized Home? Don't laugh....it can be done!
It may seem like something out of the Jetson's or some sort of futuristic TV show, but you can control your home's lighting, heating, access, and security today via the Internet, and thats just the beginning of this consulting offering. A WiseGuy technical representative will host a presentation on the recent advancements in special hardware developed by manufacturers like SquareD, Honeywell, and General Electric that give you the power to control your home and all its electronics.....and all you have to do it use it!
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Just want someone you trust to talk to when you need assistance with technology?
For a flat annual fee, a WiseGuy representative can assist you in basically anything related to computing or consumer electronics. Quoting of this offering will be based on specific products currently installed in a computing system(s) or located on yous premises at the time the contract is signed by both parties. A contract can also include future products to be purchased, but product type must be included in contract specifics, i.e. HDTV (and not specifically a Sony Model XYZ123, although if a specific model of a product type is known when contract is drawn, it can be included). Hours of contract will be normal business hours, M-F 9AM - 5PM, and onsite visits scheduled as necessary as part of contract specifications.
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Cell Phones, Wireless Home Communication, and Telephone Service Sessions
Understanding your Cell Phone
A session designed to help you use your cellphone and all its features. Also included is Cell provider feature training, like Using Call Waiting, Caller ID redial, etc.
Using your cellphone as a data tool (browsing the Internet, receiving and sending Text Messages)
A session designed to help you understand how to send and receive text messages with a cellphone, and how to send text messages to a cellphone via the Internet. Also included is training in using mobile websites, as many cellphones today have Internet browsing capabilities.
Installing and Using Wireless Home telephone systems
Telephones can be confusing today. Not only are they traditional communication devices, but can also be 2 way communication devices! This session is designed to help you understand how wireless home telephones work, why they operate on different frequencies, how multiple handsets can work with a single base station, etc.
Understanding Telephone services - Local Telephone Providers (SBC/AT&T) vs. Internet Providers (Comcast/Vonage)
LATA charges, FUSE charges, Long Distance, Local Toll....sound like a nightmare? A WiseGuy representative can help you understand all this confusion, by presenting it in easily understandable, precise, and simple terms, with pricing, packaging, and feature comparisons between land based telephone companies and Voice Over IP (VOIP) carriers.
Understanding Cell Phone Service Provider options and Services
Nextel/Sprint, Direct Connect, Cingular, AT&T, Mobile One, T-Mobile, pay as you go, call packages....this is the world of mobile communication that we live in today and the number of choices that it presents is confusing to many of us. A WiseGuy representative can help you cut through all this confusion, by presenting Cellphone service information and their options in easily understandable, precise and simple terms, with pricing, packaging, and feature comparisons between cell providers.
Configuring and Using Bluetooth Accessories with your Computing System, PDA, or Cell Phone
As of July 1, 2005, it is illegal within the City of Chicago to drive a vehicle while using a cell phone. Totally hands-free devices are available but are usually very expensive, and wired headsets are awkward and get tangled at the most inconvenient times, so many cell phone uses have chosen Bluetooth wireless audio headsets as an alternative to the costly hands free devices. This session is designed to help you learn the ease of Bluetooth technology while configuring and using your Bluetooth accessories. And if you have a computing system, this session will present alternatives that will allow you to use Bluetooth technologies to sync your PDA to your calendar without using a USB cradle, transfer address books from your PC to your cell phone, and operate printers!
Using GMRS & FRS (Family Band) Radios
Remember the CB craze of the early 1980's? Breaker, Breaker 19, ya got your ears on, good buddy?
Personal comunications have come a long way from these Citizens Band radios and the walkie-talkies that your children once used. GMRS & FRS Family Band radios are now the latest in family communication. With significant distance improvements, personalized frequencies, individual unit coding for secure communications, and significant improvements in hardware, these communication devices aren't just for kids anymore. A WiseGuy technical representative will present a session that highlights the advancements in GMRS family radio and demonstrates the ease of use of these devices, while providing pricing, packaging, and feature comparisons between radio manufacturers. A demonstration of FRS radio is included.
Return to the Top of this page
Home Entertainment System & TV Sessions
Understanding and Controlling your Home Theater System and/or Audio System
Home theater, with its confusing Surround-Sound and huge video screens can be intimidating to the lay person. Our WiseGuy technical representatives understand this and can help you understand the operation of your Audio and Video equipment, allowing you to experience Theater-like sound and visual effects in your own home. Please allow up to 3 weeks for our representatives to properly tailor their presentation for your specific model of audio and/or video hardware.
Using your Remote Control
Frustrated in getting your remote to work with your new TV? And your new all-in-one remote wont work with your VCR too? Don't despair, a WiseGuy technical representative can help you configure your remote, whether it be new or not. And then we teach you how to operate your remote, in easily understandable, precise, and simple terms.
Too many Remote Controls? Finally, we have a solution!
We hear it all the time, a cable box, a TV, a VCR, an audio amplifier, a DVR, etc, and each has it's own remote! Why can't someone invent a REAL all-in-one remote control? Well, its happened, and not only will it control all your devices, but it can learn about any new device that you purchase in the future, and it can be programmed via your computer and an Internet connection. But what does this cost? And are there other options? This session is designed to allow a WiseGuy technical representative help you understand the latest in Remote technology, by presenting it in easily understandable, precise, and simple terms, with pricing, and feature comparisons between the available options.
Configuring and Using your HDTV
OK, you've made your purchase of a snazzy new HDTV. Now who's gonna connect that thing up and make it work, either as a free-standing unit, or as part of your Home Theater system? Don't fret, a WiseGuy technical representative can do it, and then teach you how to operate your latest toy, in easily understandable, precise, and simple terms. We have experience in working with all local HD channel providers, whether its from satellite or cable, and we can configure your system with most providers, and help you with your new remote too!
Return to the Top of this page
Personal Electronics (PDAs, etc) & Game Console Sessions
Using your Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) & Synchronizing your data between your PDA and your computing system
OK, you have finally made the move from your well-worn address book into a Personal Digital Assistant. Now, what can you do with your PDA and how do you keep it current with the information on your PC? This session is designed to help you learn how to use a PDA, whether Palm OS based or Windows CE. Device functionality will be stressed, as these devices aren't just Address Books anymore. Data Syncing to your computing system or Internet-based address book or calendar is also addressed.
Configuring and Using a Game Console
Session still being developed, please contact us for information
Return to the Top of this page
Tivo/DVR, and Transferring Video to PC & DVD
Understanding and Using your Tivo or DVR
The term "Tivo" has become synonymous with the act of recording a digital media event to a storage device, like a hard drive. Just go and Tivo it! But what does this really mean, hand how does Tivo compare to other manufacturers and providers of digital media, like Dish PVRs and DirectTivo? A WiseGuy technical representative will present a session that highlights the advancements in Digital Video Recorders and demonstrates via video the ease of use of these devices, while providing pricing, packaging, and feature comparisons between DVR/PVR manufacturers
Transferring your Tivo recordings to your PC and Burning DVDs
OK, so you now have a Tivo DVR, and you have a full season of your favorite TV show recorded. Yes, these recordings were easy to create, but now, how can you transfer them so you can save them to view later? This session requires a Tivo DVR, a wireless network in your home, and a computing system, and with those tools, and some downloaded software, a WiseGuy technical representative will present a session that will teach you how to transfer his recordings from his Tivo to his computer and then "burn" it to a DVD, so that you can watch your favorite show anytime.
Creating VCR tapes using your Tivo or any brand of DVR/PVR
If you don't have a DVD burner, or a home network, don't despair. You can still transfer your Tivo recordings to a VCR tape. This session requires any brand of DVR/PVR or Tivo and a standard VCR player/recorder, and with those tools, a WiseGuy technical representative will configure your VCR and Tivo units and will teach the you how to transfer your recordings from your Tivo to a VCR tape, so that you can watch your favorite show anytime
Return to the Top of this page
Auto Electronics and Accessories
Installing and Using your GPS
Session still being developed, please contact us for information
Understanding Radar Detectors and Radar Jamming Systems
Session still being developed, please contact us for information
Installing and Using your portable Auto Video Player
Session still being developed, please contact us for information
Installing and using Satellite Radio Systems
Session still being developed, please contact us for information
Why use OnStar?
Session still being developed, please contact us for information
Return to the Top of this page
Consumer Electronics Consultation Offerings
High Definition TV and Home Theater
What's all the Fuss about HDTV anyway?
A consulting offering designed to assist you in understanding the options available in Hi-Definition Television viewing. A WiseGuy technical representative will host a presentation that teaches you the jargon of HDTV, using terms like HD-Ready, HD-Compatible, LCD Display, Plasma screen, DLP, Rear-projection, etc. The presentation will then outline the sheer volume of choices in HDTV hardware, and the hundreds of channel viewing options available today via cable and satellite.
This amount of time needed for this consulting presentation is1 hour; questions will be answered following the presentation at no additional hourly charges.
Understanding Dolby Sound Systems
Is your Home audio system Dolby 5.1? 4.1? 6.1? 6.0? Do you have the latest in Dolby? Don't know? If not, this consulting offering is designed for you. A WiseGuy technical representative will host a presentation on what Dolby actually is, and why you would want to know what version you need for your Home audio system. This is a course in Audio 101, and especially designed for beginners and those interested in Home Theater and Surround-Sound.
This amount of time needed for this consulting presentation is1 hour; questions will be answered following the presentation at no additional hourly charges.
Understanding Wireless Home Audio Systems
With the advances in Home Audio in the last few years, entire homes can be prepared to have beautiful music and Theater Surround-Sound throughout. This can be accomplished either by traditional wired speakers, or with the proper equipment, done completely wirelessly. A WiseGuy technical representative will host a presentation on the advancements in Home Wireless Audio and share the pros and cons of this new technology.
This amount of time needed for this consulting presentation is1 hour; questions will be answered following the presentation at no additional hourly charges.
Return to the Top of this page
Television Station Viewing
Cable vs. satellite vs. local stations
A consulting offering designed to assist you in understanding the many choices that are available today for Media viewing. A WiseGuy technical representative will host a frank discussion that outlines the viewing and pricing options of cable TV, Direct TV, Dish Network, and regular TV, and the hardware needed for each option.
This amount of time needed for this consulting presentation is1 hour; questions will be answered following the presentation at no additional hourly charges.
Return to the Top of this page
Advanced Home Electronics
A computerized Home? Don't laugh....it can be done!
It may seem like something out of the Jetson's or some sort of futuristic TV show, but you can control your home's lighting, heating, access, and security today via the Internet, and thats just the beginning of this consulting offering. A WiseGuy technical representative will host a presentation on the recent advancements in special hardware developed by manufacturers like SquareD, Honeywell, and General Electric that give you the power to control your home and all its electronics.....and all you have to do it use it!
Return to the Top of this page
Just want someone you trust to talk to when you need assistance with technology?
For a flat annual fee, a WiseGuy representative can assist you in basically anything related to computing or consumer electronics. Quoting of this offering will be based on specific products currently installed in a computing system(s) or located on yous premises at the time the contract is signed by both parties. A contract can also include future products to be purchased, but product type must be included in contract specifics, i.e. HDTV (and not specifically a Sony Model XYZ123, although if a specific model of a product type is known when contract is drawn, it can be included). Hours of contract will be normal business hours, M-F 9AM - 5PM, and onsite visits scheduled as necessary as part of contract specifications.
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