Posts Tagged ‘iPod Repair’
Man vs. Food Stopped By…
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Hey all,
I hope you got to check out the Aug. 11 episode of Man vs. Food on the Travel Channel — because they were here in Kansas City!
Now I’ll be the first to tell you that I, personally, am no BBQ expert. I’m not a food expert of any kind. I like what I like, but I’m not going to sit around and argue with anyone about what’s better. Having said that, I love some KC BBQ. I’ve been known to drop into some of the KC restaurants and have a burnt end sandwich. Fun fact — in college, I lived down the dorm hall from the creator of the Bacon Explosion. I haven’t tried the Bacon Explosion myself, but I have a friend who made it indoors and his entire house smelled like bacon for 2 weeks. His wife, who was opposed to the Bacon Explosion in the first place, was not pleased.
Back to Man vs. Food…
Adam, the host of the show, stopped by 3 restaurants in the area:
- Oklahoma Joe’s BBQ (revered by many as the best here in KC)
- Stroud’s (homestyle pan fried chicken)
- Papa Bob’s BBQ (home of the Destroyer, the uhh… sandwich? pictured below)
Just Wrong.
If you’ve never seen “Man vs. Food,” here’s the idea: Adam goes around to a few restaurants, eats their food and talks about how great it is, then talks to the owners or chefs about how the food is made. At the end of the show, there’s usually some kind of food challenge. This is typically some sort of race against the clock in which Adam gorges himself with an enormous amount of food.
While we’re on the subject of these eating contests… who remembers the movie “The Great Outdoors” where John Candy eats a 96 oz steak? The Old 96er! I am going out on a limb here, but I’m thinking that scene had something to do with all the eating contests in restaurants around the country.
The original "Man vs. Food"
Alright, enough fun for today. Time to get back to work. I’m working on an idea for a new show though… Staff vs. iPods? I can’t use “Man” because we have women here too. Techs vs. iPods? Ok, I’ll keep working on that.
Thanks for reading,
Another iResQ Review / Testimonial
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
Have you ever broken the headphone/earphone plug off inside your iPod/iPhone/iPad? It happens pretty often (especially in iPod touches), and we at iResQ are experts at getting that part removed and replacing the headphone jack, if necessary, for an ultra-low price. Check out our various headphone jack repairs here.
Headphone connectors break off inside the jack. This one was just removed.
The review I’m about to link you to has been around for a while, but we just recently found out about it. The author contacted me by e-mail and asked if we could use it in our blog to help people decide to use iResQ when they have issues with their Apple products. Sounds good to me!
Here’s the link; check it out!: The Tip of My Headphones Broke Off and is Now Stuck in My iPod Jack
The author doesn’t mention iResQ until page 2 of the article, but it’s still a good read and shows how we helped this young man. You’ll probably get a chuckle out of it too.
That’s it for now. Let us know if we can help you.
Hi. Notice Anything Different?
Friday, February 5th, 2010
Hi all,
We’re modest folks, but sometimes you need to pat yourself on the back a little for all your hard work. What am I talking about? Well, you’re lookin’ at it. We’ve allocated every last drop of our resources to overhauling our web site. It’s actually a COMPLETE overhaul — not just on the end that you can see, but also our order processing and customer management system has been updated.
Remember this little guy?:
Old Website circa 2009
Well, as much as we loved our old website, there comes a time where technology needs to be upgraded. Rest in peace, old friend.
Some of our staff members have been sitting in meetings for a long, long time to get this bad boy out. I’d say it’s worth the effort, wouldn’t you? Feel free to email me and let me know what you think. Special thanks to Keith the webmaster and our friends at IDP (who aren’t strangers to the spotlight).
Needless to say, all the folks who work here and aren’t busy on the phones or repairing your iPods, iPhones, PSPs, and Macbooks every day have been busy making the iResQ web presence a better place for you and me. We’ve made significant enhancements to the look, feel, and most of all, customer experience. You can read all about it from our press release (iPod & iPhone Repair Leader’s Improved Website Allows Order Tracking, Faster Turnarounds, New Repair Services) which includes a nice little tutorial video in case you are new to ordering on the web.
Don’t worry, we’re the same company with the same people. We just look a little different!
Your pal,
Snow Leopard and Football Season are Almost Here!
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
There’s a lot of stuff going on right now at iResQ – among those things:
1) Snow Leopard comes out Friday
2) The Chiefs have played 2 preseason games
3) College football starts in about a week and a half (Sept. 5 for me)
4) iResQ has a new featured employee
Jumping right in…
Snow Leopard! – That’s right, it comes out this Friday the 28th of August. You can bet that most of the employees here (myslef included) are currently making backups and preparing for the upgrade. Personally, I’ll take it slow and only put it on one computer for now as there are usually some inconvenient bugs in the newly released versions. Also, since iResQ is a member of the ACN (Apple Consultants Network), we’ll be getting a free copy sometime very soon. Thanks Apple!
Chiefs football – OK, so we’ve seen two games under the new regime of Scott Pioli and coach Todd Haley. I am not weighing too heavily on the preseason games because I know the transition from terrible to playoffs will take at least a couple of years. It sounds like Haley is running a tight ship and does not tolerate people who aren’t there to work and do thier jobs — I like the concept; let’s see how it plays out over this season.
College football – It’s no secret around the office that I am a Missouri Tiger fan. I went to college there and even though I live and work in Kansas, I will always be a Tiger fan. We do have at least one other Tiger fan in the office (the infamous Keith), but I won’t go into too much detail on the Tigers. Let’s just hope they continue to dominate (yep I said it) the big 12 North.
Nic Besel is our new iResQ featured employee – and you can click on that link to check out his profile that was posted yesterday.
No new coupons to give out today, but you can still scroll down and check out Mick’s last post if you want to save some cash this summer. Back to work for me, that’s all for now!
Blockbuster + Circuit City > Apple? They wish…
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
So can you remember the last time you stepped into a Blockbuster? Yeah… neither can I. I mean, does anyone out there still go out to Blockbuster to rent their movies? With so many new options that don’t involve getting out of your house, it seems that Blockbuster is a bit scared. I mean you can rent movies in so many different ways now. You can go to your local McDonald’s go up to the new redbox and rent a movie for $1 a night and return it to any other McDonald’s. You can go online to Netflix and choose your movies and they will mail them to you, and when you’re done you just mail them back. Now with the new iTunes you can rent movies that download straight to your MacBook, MacBook Pro or any other computer you wish to use, then download that to any other portable Apple device.Â
 
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All this is to say that Blockbuster has a plan. What seems to be the last plan they have before closing up shop. They announced yesterday that they intend on purchasing Circuit City, which is the equivalent to the retail consumer electronics market as Blockbuster is to the retail movie rental market. It seems that two wrongs are going to try and make a right, we will see how it turns out. It seems that all of this is to model Apple’s retail strategy, which most people thought would fail in the first two years. We now know that not only has it not failed, but it makes most other retail stores look like children in the market.
Circuit City doesn’t seem too pumped about the offer either. It appears that they don’t really believe that Blockbuster can afford to buy them for the value of $950 million to $1.3 billion. Needless to say there is much skepticism about this whole deal. Personally, it seems like one failing business trying to buy another it can’t afford wouldn’t really make all that much sense. Besides that, doesn’t Blockbuster already have a retail store, why would they need a larger one… Oh well, I will just stick to the iPod repair and Apple portables repair market for now.
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