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Cell Phone Apps and the New Workforce
Monday, November 15th, 2010
When more businesses make room for telecommuters, computer networks and cell phone apps become more secure and savvy.
Cisco, the networking conglomerate, conducted a global study called the Cisco Connected World Report which found that 66 percent of the world’s population is prepared to work for less if given the time and flexibility of working at home, as opposed to the stringent grid of having to report and spend working hours in an office building.
There is now evidence that businesses can benefit from letting employees work from home. For one, their employees’ productivity will increase because workers tend to put in a few more hours than people who commute. But the biggest payoff is that computer networks are gaining more strength and speed to help support telecommuters, and are increasingly more secure.
There are also many apps on a variety of cell phones that increase productivity. There are iPhone applications called “Apps for Work”, which is a series of apps to suit a person’s business needs. The Bento app is a personal and business tool to help keep a person’s life in order with to-do lists, logs, event planning and business contacts. There is also FedEx Mobile, which helps keep track of your shipments. The app iTimesheet creates invoices and activity reports that can be exported into an Excel spreadsheet.
Then there’s Motorola’s Droid smart phone, geared up with the most insane applications a person could ever think of. The Work Clock is a handy tool for telecommuters and freelancers. It tells you how much longer you plan on working and it does the math for you. Another cool Droid app is Note Everything. It lets you create text and voice notes that you can share with others and you can import into MS Outlook, Droid Calendar and Google Calendar.
In the long run, workers can stay connected virtually anywhere – keeping abreast on various things and staying organized with work and data – with the help of the new cell-phone and Smartphone apps and the four major platforms such as Microsoft Windows 7. Overall, it is not only the employees who desire to work from home, but also the changing economics, which is solidifying the possibility of more and more workers transitioning to a telecommuting, work-from-home position.
Jeff Gasner is with CPR-Cell Phone repair. The leader in Cell Phone Repair and iPod Repair offering cell phone repair services nationwide. Visit http://www.chicagocellrepair.com.
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Bland Captivate might break
Thursday, October 14th, 2010
It’s blander than the iPhone 4, but has some nice features. That said, an independent repair shop could restore functionality, which is not so ordinary.
Yes, the Captivate is bland. With its solid black slate, the absence of color, it’s not exactly a fashion statement compared to the glass-paneled, sleek exterior of the iPhone 4. But isn’t there something to be said for simple and clean, even when it comes to the newest gadgets? It does boast a 4-inch touchscreen and Samsung’s “Super AMOLED” display technology, and it’s good on batteries too.
But its weakest link is the handset, not quite flimsy, but more fragile than the typical customer might prefer. What if this Samsung marvel should break, and is unable to “captivate” even the most curious field mouse? Its touch-sensitive shortcut keys come standard: menu, home, back and search. If one of these should break or become forever stuck, unable to function… Oh the horror, the horror…
Don’t make a mountain out of an AMOLED. Run, don’t walk, to your nearest independent repair shop and get the thing fixed.
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Broken iPads Becoming Common
Thursday, August 5th, 2010
It’s nice to know that if you break your iPad, an independent repair shop can fix it.
Before they’d been off the shelves for an entire day, reports of iPads being damaged by consumers started to pour in. “I’m not sure what it is. Are people just being careless or are they real klutzes that should have ‘I’m stupid’ branded as painfully as possible into their foreheads?” said iPad chief pundit Kid L. Vicious. Vicious reported that most of the damaged iPads had been dropped, some from great heights. “One was dropped from the North Rim of the Grand Canyon by a consumer who was moonlighting as a tourist,” Vicious explained, “People who climb around precipices while holding an iPad just sicken me,” he said, in his characteristic raspy voice well-known to residents of Bayonne, New Jersey, where Vicious was born and raised. “Right behind one of the big oil tanks,” he remembers fondly, “We used to play in our kid street gangs on top of the things and hope one of us wasn’t pushed off.”
Typically when an iPad is dropped, the glass digitizer panel gets cracked. “Some of these consumers are so stupid they can get cut with the broken glass shards,” Vicious explains, “One guy I know got his cornea scratched that way, and he was howling in pain. It was sort of funny.”
The lack of human decency and compassion displayed by Kid L. Vicious notwithstanding, reports of dropped iPads are increasing. Other common repair problems occurring with the iPads involve the port at the bottom. Some consumers have reported issues when plugging their iPads into a computer application such as Windows 7, getting messages such as “device wasn’t recognized” or were simply unable to connect their iPads to a computer. Some consumers were unable to get their iPads charged. They’d plug it into a socket and nothing would happen.
Although Kid L. Vicious would probably recommend something less helpful or even something unprintable, a more prudent course of action is simply to go to your nearest independent repair shop – but please remember to take your broken iPad with you. If you don’t bring it, it can’t be repaired. At the independent repair shop, a certified service technician will be eager to help.
Jeff Gasner is with CPR-Cell Phone repair. The leader in Cell Phone Repair and iPod Repair offering cell phone repair services nationwide. Visit http://www.chicagocellrepair.com
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The iPhone4 Has a Curious Flaw
Sunday, July 25th, 2010
Now that consumers have learned to their chagrin that simply holding their iPhone4 wonder toys can lead to dropped calls, they may wish to really drop them – if only for a fateful second. If that should happen, it’s nice to know that a friendly independent repair shop is just around the corner.
Namby R. Pamby never realized that he and the legendary Darth Vader might have something in common. One day, he was using his newest wonder toy, Apple’s iPhone4, as – of all things – a phone, and he suddenly dropped a call. Around the corner, conveniently as it happened, was an independent repair shop. Mr. Pamby walked in, obviously upset, and when asked, handed his distressed gadget to an expert service technician behind the counter. The technician, observant for a geek, noticed the tell-tale sign.
“Do you always hold your iPhone 4 like that,” he said.
Namby nodded.
The geek was suddenly transformed into a know-it-all superhero, minus the cape and tights. “That’s the classic ‘death-grip’ that’s been going around,” he said, full of certainty, “You weren’t holding the phone correctly.”
Improperly chastened, Mr. Pamby felt unjustly proud. No one had ever accused him of having a death grip. Namby was intrigued at the potential of being considered all-powerful – like Darth Vader. Still, he’d inexplicably dropped a call. He wanted to know why.
Mr. Pamby’s look, a visage both subservient and dominant simultaneously, demanded an explanation from the service technician.
“When you hold it that way, it blocks the antenna’s reception,” the counter geek explained, “It’s a wraparound antenna unique to the iPhone4.”
The call was important. It was a direct communication with Namby’s mother, Pammy Pamby. Feeling a sudden surge of omnipotent rage, Namby Pamby inexplicably hurled his iPhone against the opposite wall. “It’s supposed to be a phone!” he screamed in his soft, sweet way – a strange and awe-inspiring sound you had to hear to believe. Tears were rolling down his cheeks.
The geek calmly picked up the phone, its view screen suddenly shattered, and intoned in his most compassionate voice tone, “It’s okay. We can fix it. Come back in an hour.”
Namby R. Pamby walked into a nearby Starbucks, a ubiquitous one, and drowned his sorrows in a gentle mocha. When some time had elapsed, he re-entered the independent repair shop not knowing what to expect.
“It’s fixed,” said the expert service technician. The now contrite Mr. Pamby was all coffee-colored smiles. “Be careful with that death grip,” the service technician warned, “You’re no Vader.”
Jeff Gasner is with CPR-Cell Phone repair. The leader in Cell Phone Repair and iPod Repair offering cell phone repair services nationwide. Visit http://www.chicagocellrepair.com.
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Bring a Damaged iPhone4 into CPR
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
Now that consumers have learned to their chagrin that simply holding their iPhone4 wonder toys can lead to dropped calls, they may wish to really drop them. If that should happen, it’s nice to know that a friendly CPR independent repair shop is just around the corner.
Consumers don’t always hold their iPhone4 devices properly. Such mishandling, while not initially careless, can lead to dropped calls. While some consumers might not realize that their fancy devices can be used as a phone, and remain captivated by the multitude of available apps, such a realization, once it hits, can lead to frustration and rage.
“I’ve heard of owners deliberately breaking their iPhone4 after undergoing such an experience,” asserts Rick Roland Roberts, a certified CPR service technician, when the question was recently broached. “Afterwards, they’re remorseful, and just want to get their device fixed,” he explains, “So they take it to us.”
A trip to a consumer’s nearest CPR is quite often an excellent idea.
“We’re here to help,” Roberts adds, a geek who might seem like a superhero sometimes, minus the cape and tights.
Roberts is also quite aware of the so-called ‘death-grip’ that’s been going around – an issue brought about by not holding the iPhone4 correctly.
When a call is dropped as a consequence of something so inexplicable, consumers want to know why it happened.
“When you hold it that way, it blocks the antenna’s reception,” the counter geek explained, “It’s a wraparound antenna unique to the iPhone4.”
Sometimes when a dropped call is important, it hurts to lose it, at least emotionally. A sudden surge of rage may result, and an errant iPhone4 might get hurled against the hard ground or the nearest wall. After all, it is supposed to be a reliable phone.
“But the crucial thing to appreciate, that when you take it to CPR, it gets repaired,” Roberts said, “and when someone is presented with their device functioning perfectly again, they tend to calm down.”
But CPR can’t repair a manufacturer’s defect embedded in a device. “It’s a flaw, that’s for sure,” concludes Roberts, “and it has to be pretty annoying when an important call gets dropped just because you don’t happen to be holding the phone in the most conducive way. I can kind of understand how somebody’s temper might get activated at such times.”
CPR’s expert service technicians understand.
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Apple’s iPad Rolling Out Internationally
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
Apple’s popular iPad is selling so well that it’s being rolled out into nine international markets. But what if someone mistakenly rolls your iPad off a cliff, what can you do to fix it? Independent repair shops are rapidly filling that need.
Starting May 28, 2010, Apple has announced that its amazingly popular iPad will be available in nine international markets, with preordering beginning on May 10. In July, additional launches will bring the iPad to countries like Belgium and Hong Kong. More than a million iPads have been sold since the gadget first came out on April 3.
As of May 28, iPads will be available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland, and the UK. Earlier, the iPad had sold in amazing fashion in the United States, a place where only centenarians are snapping them up at a slightly slower pace. July will take the iPad market to more countries, including Austria (birthplace of Adolf Hitler), Belgium, Hong Kong (not the birthplace of King Kong), Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Singapore. Release dates for an additional nine countries beyond those are currently in the works. Who knows? Maybe Togo and Andorra are on that list. Apple is looking to make $62.6 billion in profit by the end of May – almost like Exxon.
But what happens when someone in some far-off place brings back their tattered, broken iPad into a friendly country – such as the United States – and suddenly wishes to see their device become whole again? Hello. Does an iPad get fixed when you want to use it again? Manufacturer’s warranties with distributors are often not available – like they were with the first Smartphones. Where do you take one of these things to be repaired, once you’ve dropped it into the swimming pool or off your sun roof? Who is able to fix your iPad that you figured was tatered? The answer may be staring you in the face, depending upon where you are of course. Think Indy, as in independent repair shop. At places like that, where they used to just fix cell phones, their in-house geeks, expert service technicians all, can repair your iPad good as new – even if it originally came from Andorra, as in the very near future – it very well might.
Jeff Gasner is with CPR-Cell Phone repair. The leader in Cell Phone Repair and iPod Repair offering cell phone repair services nationwide. Visit http://www.chicagocellrepair.com.
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CPR Will Fix Any DROID, No Matter How Incredible It May Be
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
CPR’s expert service technicians know a DROID when they see one. But even if it is incredible, it’s just another DROID to them.
Where have all the smart phones gone? This question was asked of a CPR service technician the other day. His name is Bobby. Bobby used to be called Robert, but customers, especially those with a broken cell phone in need of fixing, would rather be on familiar terms with this guy to get on his good side. Lest we digress, he answered the question. He didn’t evade it because he definitely knew the answer. “Where,” replied Bobby, “to CPR. The smart consumers bring them here.”
There are a lot of smart phones out these days. Various iPhones sent by Apple instead of a doctor, and there’s also a new android on the block. An android phone simply made into a brevity called DROID may be inhabiting your hand right now. It can sure fit there, this plastic thing-a-ming perhaps about to sing.
“I coined that phrase, ‘thing-a-ming,’ and it’s real,” Bobby admits. He is also one of CPR’s more clever employees, a top-notch certified service technician. But what about this android called DROID? It’s not huge. The thing-a-ming weighs 4.59 ounces (130 grams) so it’s not that heavy, even if it did once belong to your brother. It’s almost 5 inches tall (4.63 inches), and 2.3 inches wide. What makes the thing-a-ming so breakable is its diameter – only 0.47 inches. With so little depth, the thing-a-ming is downright thin.
“It’s downright thin,” agrees Bobby, putting it in his own words. It’s a nice smart phone, this DROID, “don’t get me wrong,” asserts Bobby. He hates it when people get him wrong, “But there are a thousand ways to break it.”
Consumers who own a new DROID somehow discover most of them. “I know a guy who broke his DROID by cracking it between his teeth,” Bobby asserts, “He noticed that he’d cracked several canines too, but by then it was way too late.” Often it is. Bobby recalls an elderly woman who brought her DROID in for repair, and incredibly, had forgotten how she’d broken it. “I couldn’t believe her story,” Bobby recalled, “Nobody forgets something like that.” He just wants people to remember that the place to bring in your DROID if it breaks, is your nearest CPR.
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IPad Is Attractive to Seniors
Saturday, May 29th, 2010
But seniors have accidents and can drop or damage their iPads. They should know about CPR’s expert service technicians. Please tell an elder iPad owner about the CPR secret.
Gorfna Papufna, a 76-year-old retired teacher, has never been especially enamored with every new tech gadget that comes along. But there the ugly old woman was at the Apple store, a forbidding presence in her own right, looking rather incongruous, although she’d just been playing with her grandson’s iPad and suddenly she wanted one. “I want your iPad Tommy,” she said, “Give it to me.” The boy, a nerdy 14-year-old, felt a flush of horror. “No,” he said simply. He didn’t really like his grandma much. She was from the old country and he wasn’t even sure what country that was.
But Grandma Gorfna was not to be denied. She began thrashing with the teenager, and surprised him enough that he released his hold on the precious iPad and Grandma Possession became nine-tenths of the law. Her hand was like a claw from one of those monster movies. He glared at his grandma, showing disrespect.
Over the next several days, Grandma returned home with Tommy’s family, an arrangement made in Hell, and to her small apartment in the basement. Grandma Gorfna went everywhere in their house with “her” iPad. But one day she wasn’t careful enough, and dropped it, and broke it. The LCD screen was cracked. “It can’t be fixed,” the old embittered woman declared. She was filled with a kind of woe which reminded her of rabid dogs fighting for scraps in the old country – wherever that was.
But Tommy knew what could be done. He was a streetwise kid and knew the score. He knew the secret. He knew that he could take the iPad to CPR. They’d fix it for sure. He was just waiting her out.
Finally one day, he took the iPad that had once been his to the CPR shop. The boy knew about the in-house geeks – expert service technicians proficient in the repair of iPads. Those canny geeks fixed the boy’s device while he waited. He brought it home. When Grandma Gorfna saw it again, she thought it was magic when she noticed Tommy playing with it. Being too superstitious for her own good, she snatched it from her very surprised grandson once again. Raised it above her head, and smashed it on the cement floor. “It was broken,” she said, “and now it works again. It has to be a demon’s spell.”
“Grandma,” said Tommy, “It wasn’t a demon. I took it to CPR and they fixed it.”
So the old woman learned the secret too.
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CPR Will Repair Cannibalized Apple iPads
Friday, May 28th, 2010
It is in the realm of possibility for iPads to cannibalize iPod Touch devices, but what do you do if your iPad is cannibalized? If it is still intact enough to be repaired, take it to your nearest CPR.
I was familiar enough with human cannibals, most of them from primitive areas of New Jersey, in the jungle there that develops amid the poison ivy in the summertime, but this cannibalism by devices was a novelty to me. Still, if the rumors were true, iPads were beginning to cannibalize iPod Touch devices, and the mere thought of it was so creepy it sent chills up my spine.
I thought I would do some investigating, to see if there was any substance to the rumors. I placed an iPad right next to an iPod Touch on top of a blanket, and switched on a convenient camcorder to record their actions. Which one would be the aggressor? I waited. For the longest time, both the iPad and the iPod Touch seemed extremely passive. I could be patient, and in fact, had ample time to waste. I took my eyes away for just a moment and suddenly saw it – yes, it was the iPad being positively vicious, that little electronic cannibal, but finally I couldn’t stand the cannibalizing anymore and I separated the two devices – nearly losing a finger and a toe in the process. A toe you’re saying? Don’t ask. But I knew that the iPod was fine, and, actually, reverse cannibalism had been occurring, and it was the iPad that was injured, partly cannibalized, so I knew that my iPad’s only chance for repair was to be taken down to the nearest CPR shop, where an expert service technician can fix an injured iPad – even one that’s been cannibalized by a crazed iPod.
I walked down, trotted actually in my jogging shoes, a pair of Nikes, and walked into the CPR where a couple of in-house geeks, expert service technicians, immediately knew what had happened.
“Cannibalized iPad?” The taller geek said, and then the words I’d been craving, “Don’t worry. We can fix it good as new.” Within an hour, he did just that – while I waited, chewing the fat, actually a piece of jerky.
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Apple Tries to Fix iPad Issues
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
During the first week of April, Apple tried to address some issues that customers were having with their new iPad. But when your iPad really breaks, independent repair shops are often able to fix it.
It’s been reported that many iPad owners have been experiencing issues with the gadget’s wireless connection – typically bad reception and slow speeds. According to one disgruntled iPad owner, “I would have done better with a pencil and a napkin.” Since the first week of April, no fooling, Apple has been offering troubleshooting tips to help owners who have moved beyond exasperation to find a tiny bit of solace.
There’s a Knowledge Base article for general iPad wireless issues that’s been circulating for awhile, but now Apple has generated a piece from their in-house geeks that is geared to problems, specifically that the device is not reconnecting to wireless networks. At least that single issue has received some attention, albeit scant. Praise the Apple, kneel and praise the Apple.
If your iPad isn’t reconnecting to your network, and you’re using a dual-band router, Apple wants you to rename your wireless networks. I can help there. If your wireless network is nicknamed “Bill,” instead you can call it Tom, or even Pat, especially if you don’t mind risking gender confusion. Actually, Apple’s suggestions are a lot more helpful, and these problems can at least be more easily resolved than they could, say – back in March.
But what if your iPad really breaks? You just dropped it on the concrete, or into the crapper, or some unknown household pet has been chewing it. Where will Apple be then? In fact, if you can’t depend on Apple for the real repairs, especially if you don’t want to be without your iPad for like – months – your next destination should be an independent repair shop – for instance, the one nearest you. Places like this have their own geeks, expert service technicians, who know how to repair iPads, even yours. They don’t particularly care if your pet happens to be a rambunctious something or other with very sharp teeth, even fangs, as long as you don’t bring your pet into the shop when you’re getting the broken iPad repaired. While devices like iPads perhaps used to be a mystery to such folks, nowadays …
Jeff Gasner is with CPR-Cell Phone repair. The leader in Cell Phone Repair and iPod Repair offering cell phone repair services nationwide. Visit http://www.chicagocellrepair.com.
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