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Now playing: Crystal Castles - Love And Caring
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Here’s a helpful suggestion for you football lovers: don’t attempt fantasy football draft on your iPhone. I attempted to do my draft (the old school non-flash way) on my iPhone last night and it was an utter failure. I ended up with several auto-picks because my network dropped a bunch. I particularly loved how when I was about to snatch up a back-up QB for bye weeks, Kurt Warner, my network stalled at the last second and it auto-picked unproven Tight End “VERNON DAVIS” in round 6. That was so awesome.
Lesson learned - that’s the last time I’ll lazy my way through a draft by using my iPhone.
On the subject of iPhones, we have been totally flooded lately with iPhone repairs and happy iPhone customers. We have gotten a bunch of iPhone 3G parts in for repair so don’t hesitate to send yours in. We’ll take care of it for you.
Until next time…
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Howdy folks! Happy Friday to all of you, and what a Friday it is. Tonight after work I’m hoppin in the van with the band and heading down to the lake of the Ozarks for a weekend rock show. Playing a late night set tonight and all afternoon tomorrow! Oh yea, did I forget to mention that we get free food, drink, and rooms for the weekend? Perfect! Navigating the trip will be my iPhone of course- those map updates just keep on keepin on.
On a more business-related subject, I’d like to congratulate our two staff members Jeff Treese, and Eric Darnell who both completed their Apple Certifications this week. Hip hip hooray!! That’s two more Apple Certified staffers here at the Q (that’s a good thing).
Well friends, that’s about all I have to discuss today. Thanks for your time- I hope you enjoyed this post as much as I did. Have a good weekend, get outside (the summer is wearing out), and be safe.
Salutations, friends. Everybody still enjoying their 3G iPhones? If you’re one of the millions who have already bought one, consider yourself one lucky dog. (Cue heavy-handed segue in 3, 2, 1…) And speaking of lucky dogs (thank you, thank you), have I got the deal of lifetime for you folks. Ever since my wife and I adopted our border collie Maddie from a Wichita shelter last summer, I’ve kind of been pushing the whole dog adoption thing on unsuspecting friends and family. And now you people. Now, I don’t mean to criticize breeders and expensive pet shops that sell puppies by the barrel- people need a place to buy $1500 pedigrees too. But if you’re considering adopting a dog or cat, be sure to check out your local Humane Society or Animal Control Shelter first. There are thousands of great animals out there looking for homes, and I’ve always had great luck with the dogs I’ve rescued.
So here’s the deal- If you’re ordering a repair for an iBook, PowerBook, MacBook or MacBook Pro, enclose a receipt from a shelter or Humane Society for a dog or cat you adopted between now and September 30th and I’ll take $50 off your total. If you’re in the Kansas City area, check out Kansas City REGAP, an organization that finds homes for retired racing greyhounds. If you adopt a greyhound through KC REGAP, it’s $50 off and an iResQ t-shirt. Check out some of the dogs available in the Olathe area below, and Maddie cruising in the front seat of my Jeep.
And remember to control the pet population, friends. Have your pet spayed or neutered.
Big news, everybodies. After taking a long hiatus, we at your iPod, iPhone and Apple Portables repair shop have once again decided to become an Apple Authorized Service Provider. What does that mean for you? Only more services, such as Apple warranty coverage, plus the same great out-of-warranty services you’ve depended on for over a decade!
That said, we’ve entered what is sure to be a controversial week. Can you guess why? Of course- it’s the time of the year that all of us here in Kansas City both embrace and perpetually gripe about. The Chiefs roll into Soldier Field this Thursday to embarrass themselves at the hand of the Chicago Bears. It’s a bittersweet time to say the least. It’s also a little painful, but necessary, to root against the team we’ve grown to love just so they’ll have a humiliating season and finally demand the firing of both coach Herm Edwards and GM Carl Peterson. We’ll see though. We’ll see if we can actually win early on with our top two draft picks on the DL. We’ll see if we can rise above last season’s 4-5 start that skidded to a 4-12 finish and lost us Jared Allen (*sniff*). We’ll see if the angry mobs throw Herm out and wrangle Mr. Bill Cowher in. But I digress.
I hope your teams bring you more joy this week with the launch of the 2008 preseason. Have a good week, everybody.
Hi friends, so every Monday morning we come in and get to work on all of the web orders that were made over the weekend. Our friend Mick in sales spends most of his Monday processing of all of these. So, what do you say, lets mess with him a little bit and make him real busy. Sound good? I thought you’d think so. Lets do it like this, make an iPod order this weekend August 2nd or 3rd and receive $10.00 off of your repair. There is one stipulation. You need to email me at bryan@iresq.com, let me know your confirmation number and I will take it from there. Sorry Mick, no hard feelings- we just like to see you working hard after a couple days off. Ok, get to ordering. I can’t wait to check my email Monday morning. Until then, have a good weekend and be safe.
-rock-
Why hello friends, thanks for reading. With the release of the 3G iPhone it seems everyone is saying goodbye to the old iPhone. Because lets be honest, what good is that when there is a 3G available? I’ll tell you what good it is, we will give you money for it. How do ya like that? Thats right, we are ready to purchase your old iPhone. All you have to do is visit http://www.iresq.com/iphone/iphonepurchaseform.php fill out the form and submit it to us. We then look the form over and reply with a quote. We may offer $1.00 or we may offer $1,000,000.00 (although that doesn’t make the most sense from a business standpoint). Just sayin’ if you want a new 3G iPhone but are not sure what to do with your old iPhone check us out we will be sure to make you a reasonable offer. Wait- it gets even better. After we have purchased your iPhone we recycle all of the parts, so in a way we are heroes to the environment. And guess what- you are too. Good job. Pat yourself on the back. Well, team I hope all is well out there in internet land and I hope to see all of your old iPhones in here after you sell them to us. Have a great weekend and remember to be safe- nobody likes a danger mouse.
Rock
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Now playing: Corrosion of Conformity - Clean My Wounds
via FoxyTunes
iPhone Haiku, by Mick:
Man, my iPhone rules
I think I might just name it
Barbara or Jeff
Hey that’s a good idea - Email me the Qpon HAIKU no later than FRIDAY 7/25 to mick@iresq.com and I’ll knock 10 bucks off of ANY next-day flat rate repair on any item - iPhone, iPod or Portable. This is not applicable to any diagnostic services - only flat-rate repairs!
Enjoy this animated gif and have a good day.
Salutations, friends. How is everyone’s 3G iPhones? There’s a few floating around here, but sadly none of them are mine. If the new network is really as dramatic an improvement as we all anticipated, I’ll probably buckle before too long. In the meantime, those of you who happen to have one and an AppleTV to boot should go to the App Store in your iTunes and check out the Remote App. Yes, that’s right. You can use your iPhone keyboard wirelessly with your AppleTV. Your guess as to why Apple hasn’t publicized that is as good as mine. I’ll have to ask when I check out the newest Apple Store in the suburbs of Kansas City. That’s right. Kansas has an Apple Store now. Take that, North Dakota.
Moving on- if any of you haven’t seen The Dark Knight, do it right now. I’m personally giving you permission to leave work and head directly to your nearest theater. I don’t want to harp on the significance of every little detail, mostly because very few of you care, so I’ll exercise brevity with my comments. Ready, go. 1) Christopher Nolan is exactly what this franchise needed. 2) He’s turned Gotham (Chicago) into its own hero, villain, and victim. Brilliant. 3) AFI had better throw out their list of all-time greatest villains. Because Heath Ledger just marked his territory all over it.
Ok, I have to go see it again now. On the IMAX. Until next week, kids.
Well what a day we have here- the new 3G iPhone is out and about. We had one of our eccentric salesguys wait in line overnight just so that we could have one to take apart. It turned out pretty good and the new phone looks beautiful with its shiny white back. Just precious. And we have taken it apart and put it back together with complete success. Stay tuned for pictures.
It does seem as though ol’ AT&T and Apple got a little overzealous with their “only activating in stores policy”. Apparently the network was jammed due to the huge ammount of people trying to activate, and at this point most iPhones have not even been activated yet, boy I tell ya. Not to worry though- I’m sure that all of these issues will be resolved in no time. I mean we are talking about Apple here. It’s not the first time they’ve released a sweet piece of awesomeness and had a few glitches in the process. Remember the Apple II? Man, Number Munchers didn’t work for like a week! Just kidding. I was but a boy when that young gun was released.
Well as you can tell I am a little scatter-brained today. I am so excited about this new iPhone that I’m losing my mind. With that thought I bid you farewell- have a great weekend and be safe.
–Hurry up and activate that iPhone will ya–
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Now playing: Minor Threat - Minor Threat
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Remember how I was gonna get a new iPhone even though I have an old one? Well I changed my mind. I don’t see the point. The only difference I can see is the backing is plastic and the network is faster. That doesn’t warrant buying a new one. I’m just gonna get mine fixed. My home button is barely working because the frame is bent, apparently. Don’t get me wrong - I love that they dropped the price down to 199.00 and I pretty much adore anything Apple.
I’m pretty sure this is a great deal for new users, but it just doesn’t make sense to me as an iPhone gen1 user. Just my 2 cents. Send us your gen1 if you need it fixed. It’s worth it. See ya.
