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Macbook and MB Pro Unibody Glass Repair / Replacement
Wednesday, August 11th, 2010
Hello again everyone from hot and toasty Kansas City! I just snapped a screenshot for proof:
Yep. Hot.
Moving along… We’ve seen an increase in broken MacBook and MacBook Pro unibody glass lately. Are people more reckless with their computers this time of year? Is it because school is starting back up and students are having their computers repaired before they are back on campus? Are people just more active during the summer months? I don’t have the answer, but we’re seeing a lot of these:
Although this kind of damage is pretty tragic for anyone who has it happen to them, it’s pretty much business as usual for the guys here at iResQ. We have an excellent stock of glass panels for all unibody MacBook and MacBook Pro models. Oh yeah, and by replacing the glass panel only rather than the entire top half of your computer, you can save some major cash.
Check out our Unibody MacBook / MB Pro Glass Repair and Replacement options here!
Thanks for reading, and don’t forget to check out Eric and Mick’s recent blogs — they have coupons!
Until next time,
World Cup 2010
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
Alright, I’m a little behind on the sporting news. But I’ve been so distracted by the madness, the chaos, the utter fiasco that this year’s Greatest Tournament in Professional Sports has been. Well maybe fiasco is a little dramatic. But it’s not far off. Let’s take a quick gander at what has transpired thus far: tourney favorites such as France, England, Spain and Germany have completely under-performed. The latter two will almost certainly make it to the next round anyway, but a win and a loss for two of the overall favorites is a bit of a shock. And France and England have all but completely imploded, all the while Beckham and Zidane watch helplessly from the sidelines.
Second, the disaster box that is World Cup officiating is being completely ignored by the superbly and ethically administrated FIFA organization. What, is the sarcasm too thick? Ok, ok. Most of the matches so far have had little to no referee controversy, and that should be noted. But the ones that have been mired in it are, as Alexi Lalas put it, a disgrace. From Brazil’s Kaka being ejected for his uncanny ability to break a player’s face by gently nudging his sternum, to Findley’s yellow card for hitting the ball with his head, to the crown jewel of referee scandal, the elusive Edu “it’s illegal to score the winning goal while your teammates are being assaulted in the box” foul. Let’s take another look, shall we?
Ridiculous.
Now this is not to say there haven’t been great moments. Despite the controversy, the USA rally to win, er, equalize after a 2-0 halftime deficit was exciting. And there have been beautiful goals, like Christiano Ronaldo’s neck stall from yesterday, which I could show you if FIFA wasn’t rampaging against copyrighted content on YouTube. Thanks again, FIFA. Well, now I have a deal for you. As long as the United States are still in the running, place an order for a MacBook, MacBook Pro, or MacBook Air repair and email in the coupon code “USA” to sales@iresq.com for $10 off the service. As always, this is good for repairs only, not diagnosis. The more you support your nation’s squad, the longer they stay in, so the longer this deal goes. So root for the red, white and blue tomorrow against Algeria and we’ll hook you up on your next repair. USA! USA!.
Lost and Found.
Monday, May 24th, 2010
WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS.
Like many of you out there, I love Lost. I love the complexly flawed characters, the heavy philosophical and literary references throughout, the often sappy dialogue and over-dramatized emotional sequences. So, like many of you out there, I was eagerly anticipating last night’s series finale. And now it’s all sinking in. I imagine there were a lot of theories about how it would end out there, and I hope some of you had the satisfaction of realizing you were right. Because I had a few that I thought were pretty solid, but very few of the details came to be. So it goes. I’ve been browsing the discussion threads this morning and I’m quite surprised to find a widespread unrest amongst fans. People seem to be vehemently turning their backs on the series they once called a friend and claiming that they wasted six years of their lives only to get no answers to the questions they’ve had. I thought it was fairly obvious that the events of the series were going to be left fairly wide open to interpretation. At least that’s the status quo that JJ Abrams and company have established over the last six years. A show that runs almost entirely on questions isn’t going to end with answers.
I admit when the screen flashed white and the credits rolled over shots of plane wreckage on the beach, I was pretty disappointed. I said, and I quote, “Huh.” But my disappointment wasn’t with the lack of answers, nor the surprise purgatory ending that fans seemed to view as a spiritual cop-out, but rather the messy pile of events in the parallel LAX storyline that didn’t seem to make sense in an afterlife-reality that the characters themselves created. But the more I process, the more it makes sense. Jack had no real relationship with his father, so he creates a son whom he can reconcile his parental shortcomings with. Desmond, in life, sought the approval of Penny’s father, Charles Widmore above nearly anything else, so in death he’s Widmore’s most valued and trusted employee. Even the island, which so mysteriously lay at the bottom of the Pacific for the entire final season, was put there by the minds of the characters who needed closure. Sure, the end was a little thick on the sentimental, but what else can you expect from a show that connected its audience to its characters so well over six years?
I still have to mention that it would have been a lot cooler had Desmond used his unique resistance to the powers of the island to turn into the anti-smoke monster and throw down with John Locke rather than just pulling and reseating a plug in a hole, but that’s a minor complaint from an excited fanboy. I think once fans get over the ambiguity of the island’s story they’ll recognize how tastefully the show’s writers let it die. I think. Of course some people will never be satisfied. I know. I’m a critic. Now, in honor of the last Lost, enjoy one of the best sequences between Jorge Garcia and Michael Emerson. It’s poetic, to be sure:
One more thing- here’s a coupon for you Lost fans. Through Memorial Day email the code “Dharma” and your order number to sales@iresq.com for $10 off your next MacBook, MacBook Pro, or MacBook Air repair. Good luck, and namaste.
Here we come to save the day.
Monday, May 10th, 2010
Hello shiny happy people. How’s your Monday treating you? It’s pretty gloomy here at iResQ thanks to a sloppy gray dripping of a storm, but that’s no reason to be down. Know why? Because several awesome things happened this weekend. First, Betty White hosted SNL much to the elation of thousands of vocal FaceBook users. And the 88 year old Golden Girl was pretty dang funny at times. Second, it was Mothers Day, of course. Did you all take care of your moms and send cards and flowers and whatnot? Shame on you if you forgot. My wife and I spent her first Mothers Day the way every new mom wants to spend it. And by mom, I mean dad. And by the way she wants to spend it, I mean sitting on the couch with the baby and watching several hours of Friday Night Lights on NetFlix. My wife is awesome.
The final reason is this: I was just introduced to a little site called xtranormal.com. Now some of you may be well familiar with this supremely entertaining internet time-waster, but if you’re not you should check it out. The whole concept is if you can type, you can make movies. It’s pre-animated characters and scenarios that you edit by adding dialogue, actions, sounds and expressions, then it renders everything for you. A quick example of the fun you can have in just five minutes:
So there you have it. Now go waste some time. And if you break your iPhone, MacBook, iPod or iPad, you can be just as excited as the flatulent Englishman. iResQ is here.
Wide Open Spaces
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
Good morning, and many salutations! A few exciting things happening around these parts. First, the Kansas State Wildcats are making their first Sweet 16 appearance since 1988. Huzzah. Things are a little bitter around here since iResQ is fully stocked with KU and Mizzou fans. More importantly- iResQ is now offering 1TB hard drive upgrades for the aluminum UniBody MacBook and UniBody MacBook Pro. If you’ve been syphoning off your movies and music to external drives or burning all your documents to DVDs, worry no longer. Now you can have your space and eat it to, so to speak. Check it out:
Dang, that’s a lot of space. And if you’re running Snow Leopard, it will actually read as 1000GB, unlike previous operating systems that assumed 1MB = 1024KB. Remember when it was unfathomable that anyone would use a whole gigabyte of storage? When I was nine my dad brought our first PC home and I was astounded at the 40MB of memory and the 133MHz processor. And with that processing force I played Pong and Number Munchers for hours. Wow.
Still anxiously awaiting the delivery of your iPad? Try this to pass the time- whenever you send an email to a friend or coworker, sign it “Sent from my iPad.” I’ve had a few of my friends start raving jealously, which is always fun. Patience, Apple fans. It’s almost here.
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