Ben Forest Consulting LLC

07/27/2023

Meet my favorite client and dear friend Debra Matzner.
Debra is blunt - knows what she wants and does not want.
Always generious - insists on paying me for her McDonald's breakfast even when I am visiting her as a buddy not her computer repair man.
She makes no apologies for being a smoker: “At this point why am I going to worry about that. I enjoy it.”
I have been been providing Apple Computer support for her and her late husband Mark since around 2001. Mark was a retired chemist from Union Carbide when I met him. Debra’s main use of computers is to assist in her creative passion for sewing, reading emails and books, playing computer games, watching movies, and listening to music.
Debra had a harrowing childhood. Memories of Europe during World War 2 are with her every time I see her.
She remembers being forced to wear a Star of David patch as she went to school at age 6.
She travelled with her family (sister, mother and father) from their home in Antwerp, Belgium to Switzerland to survive the holocaust.
"My father came home one night and said we had to leave immediately."
They were forced to walk much of that journey.
"I still have a fear of dogs from that. The Nazi's and police used dogs to hunt us.
My parents told me they let us into Switzerland because we were a family with children. My mother, sister and I were kept together. My father went to a work camp." Eventually they were reunited in Geneva.
Arrived on a freighter in Hoboken, New Jersey around 1955 married with a daughter.
We faced many challenges (including being robbed at the dock), but Mark got a job in his actual field of chemistry.
Debra and Mark are greatful for all they got in United States and became naturalized citizens.
"We love the freedom of this country," Debora tells me every time I visit her.
They raised their daughter, Stella, who attended Rutgers University and lives in New York City. Stella Matzner Ben Forest Consulting LLC

03/22/2022

Here’s some useful information if you have a 5G phone about battery life. I have mines on auto. T-Mobile has excellent 5G here in Monmouth County New Jersey. I definitely have noticed far better service. Using the iPhone 13


Compatible iPhones support 5G with auto mode enabled by default. Here's how to turn 5G on/off on iPhone for better battery or faster speeds.

12/18/2017

Haha: just walked into check my Ben Forest Consulting LLC box and here is the scene. I snuck a quick photo in the back too. The 2nd guy is Bernie the owner. And there is a long line too; but they are keeping it moving. Great team in that store. Excellent service all year, thank you 👍.

10/26/2017

APPLE SCAM WARNING: just got this email (see photo #1) from a sender masquerading as Apple Support trying give a heads-ups on an unauthorized access. Jumps to a phony Apple support webpage: seeking your Apple ID or iCloud and password; (photo #2). Click on the addresses as well as the link and you’ll see, it is not not really an apple.com email address or webpage. It’s an effective scam, be careful. You may occasionally get legitimate notifications from Apple, always verify that it is really Apple; and you can call Apple support: 800–692–7753, 7 days a week from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. Central time

10/06/2017

Update Caution: Been running the new iOS 11 system now for a few weeks on my iPhone and iPad.
Really like many of the improvements 👍. But iPhone users: watch-out for battery life issues. My 6S iPhone is getting a about half the charge time and I had been having really good batter proformance; replaced by Apple in the spring. Much worse with the most recent update. Also clients are complaining that update is choppy and slow on the iPhone 6 FYI.
As I always say; give it at least six-weeks before installing a major update.

With iOS 11, new features and capabilities bring iPad to life like never before. And make iPhone more essential than ever to your everyday life.

09/21/2017

Enjoyed this Quora.com answer to a question of I often field. Fair. I think Macs and Apple devices are a much better deal than they usually get credit for. Many of my clients and well as myself, use these computers for 7 years productivley. https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Mac-overrated/answer/Mehmet-Ufuk-Dalmis-1?srid=GV0U

Mehmet Ufuk Dalmis's answer: I have a high-end laptop with i7 processors and 16gb ram from an other brand with windows OS. Just 3 years after buying, microsoft released windows 10. My laptop was not compatible with it. Well, officially it was compatible but there were many hardware problems.Nei...

08/27/2017

I am Facebook friendly. An avid user. Great tool for business and not-for-profits; marketing and retaining clients. On a personal level: An efficient, and sometimes powerful way to stay connected with loved ones, friends. Good tool for expanding your network too. Sharing photos. One of my services is to help you take full advantage social networks and setting and dealing with privacy settings.