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Man Teaches Apple To Not Repair His Macbook By Smashing It With Sledgehammer
By 6.21.07
Michael coulda tried calling back again later and getting a different rep, or emailing Steve Jobs, or filing a dispute with the BBB or AG, or any number of different options. Instead, this seems to have been his most personally satisfying option.
News Footage Of The United Airlines O'Hare Traffic Jam
By 6.20.07
Airplanes were still allowed to land at O’Hare even though there were no available jetways at the United terminal. Wow, this looks like fun! —MEGHANN MARCO
Gateway Recalls Batteries For Fire Hazard
By 6.20.07
Gateway recalled laptop batteries that can overheat and pose a risk of fire. Owners of Gateway laptop models 400VTX with battery part number 6500760, and model 450ROG with battery part number 6500761 should discontinue use and submit an exchange request to Gateway.
Dell Admits Error In Asking Consumerist To Remove Post
By 6.18.07
Dell has said it was wrong for trying to get The Consumerist to remove a “confessions” post from a former Dell worker.
Give The Gift Of Tech Support With A Free Day Pass From Fog Creek Copilot
By 6.17.07
Fog Creek Copilot is celebrating Father’s Day by giving away free Day Passes, allowing you to finally prove to your father that you are better than an Indian customer service representative. Copilot is a zero-configuration utility that lets you seize another person’s computer like a Mongol horde. Except instead of pillaging and burning, you install Firefox and remove spyware.
While connected as a helper, you see the desktop of the person you’re helping in its own window. As you move your mouse within this window, the other’s mouse pointer moves, and as you type, the text appears on both of your screens.
Don’t think tech support is a real gift? Were it not for our ability to resurrect our father’s beloved Albertus Medium font, he may have strangled himself out of frustration with the very ties we gifted in years past. — CAREY GREENBERG-BERGER
Save $100 At Apple By Being A Tease Over The Phone?
By 6.13.07
An Apple telesales rep tell us you can get them to knock $100 off your price when ordering over the phone just by playing a little hard to get:
If they make it obvious that they’re purchasing but are a little resistant to it being “too expensive” by about $100 – sales representatives can take off $100 off an order (as long as it’s purchased through the standard consumer store).
We’re thinking this is more likely to work if it’s a big-ticket item like a laptop.
House Passes Two Anti-Spyware Measures
By 6.9.07
The House has passed not one, but two cleverly-named measures targeting the miscreants who make and promote spyware. Though the FTC, Justice Department, and several state attorneys general are already empowered to prosecute spyware manufacturers, the two measures would extend existing laws by subjecting spyware makers to jail terms and multimillion-dollar fines.
Help New York Sue Dell By Filling This Complaint Trough
By 5.23.07
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is suing Dell and he wants your help.
RUMOR: CompUSA To Close 50 More Stores In 6 Months
By 5.18.07
A CompUSA insider tells us there’s a rumor floating around that CompUSA may be closing another 50 stores within 6 months. Like before, Gordon Brothers Liquidators would handle the pureeing.
Kensington Sends Free Replacement Of Discontinued Trackball
By 5.17.07
Kensington customer service is nice. George searched all up in the internet’s biznatch but could nay find another trackball just like the one he had.
Customer Gets 30 Months Prison After Geek Squad Finds Child Porn On His Computer
By 5.7.07
Child porn is a most heinous exploitation and its publishers and consumers should be boiled in blood, then stabbed in the face, then fed to wolverines. The Geek Squad is helping feed those wolverines by reporting child porn they find on customer’s computers to the police, the St Louis Dispatch reports:
All The Computer Tech Needed To Do Was Reconnect A Power Cable. Cost? $59.99, $69.99, $119.99 and $275!
By 5.7.07
The results were varied and shocking:
Geek Squad Agrees To Look For Hidden Porn If You Bring In A Spouse's Computer
By 5.7.07
A Minneapolis news site decided to follow up on whether Geek Squad really harvests your porn from your computer when you take it in for repairs. Since Geek Squad started amidst the state’s frozen drifts, its denizens take a special interest in its doings.
Top Geek Squad Stories To Date
By 5.3.07
“Geek Squad agents scour your computer for those porn pics you and your girlfriend(s) took, and load it onto their thumb drives. Even the ones you thought you deleted.”
