March 12th, 2010 by Marian
Howdy!
Being in the iPhone and iPod (and soon to be iPad!) repair biz, you get to see some really awful stuff come through the doors. Seriously, screens that are completely demolished, 
nanos that are so bent that they form right angles or even first gen iPhones missing their silver backplates entirely. It’s enough to make a grown nerd cry! It never ceases me amaze me how messed up this little electronic can get! It’s nuts. No matter, though, because our repair technicians give each and every device a thorough evaluation before we have to call the time of death. We don’t judge based on how ugly its mug is–everyone gets an equal chance. 
Speaking of busted devices, there does seem to be a pattern of people not in the know that their device can be fixed–it never fails! I’ll be roaming about San Antonio and I’ll see someone carefully trying to maneuver around the shards of glass from their iPhone. Or, I’ll see a friend with an iPod video that sounds like it doubles as a trash compactor. I start to wonder if people know that they can get ‘em fixed or maybe it’s just the economics of the matter. Either way, we like to spread the word about our great repair solutions with great prices to match. Just give us a call and we’ll see if we can get you a ballpark price for those more ambiguous repairs! We have real AND knowledgeable people on the receiving end of your inquiry. We’re all happy to help!
Well, I know that there have been plenty of accidents that we’ve fixed, but truth be told, sometimes we like to keep a small collection of old parts to remember the worst of the worst. I’m starting to think we should make some kind of art out of it. Well, I [carefully] dug around and found the nastiest digitizers. I don’t remember all the backstories, but I rememeber something about a tank, a nailgun and maybe even a firetruck…Anyways, after nearly cutting my little fingers up, I got this shot:
Keep those phones safe!
Marian
Tags: Accidents, Alamo City, Brown Eyes, Brown Hair, Business Card, Firetruck, Great Solutions, iphone, Iphones, iPod Video, Little Fingers, Marian, Nailgun, Nanos, nerd, Nonchalantly, Nuts, Pow Right In The Kisser, Repair Solutions, Repair Technicians, Right Angles, Right In The Kisser, San Antonio, Shards Of Glass, Time Of Death, Trash Compactor, Twin Sister, Weirdo
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March 12th, 2010 by David
“WRITERS BLOCK – A usually temporary psychological inability to begin or continue work on a piece of writing.”
Yep. Thats what I have. Big Time. It isnt very temporary though. Which isnt very good considering I have 4 songs that I need to finish writing. Not to mention this blog. :-/ So what causes our minds to go blank?! Im assuming its the lack of inspiration. Ive been so busy with fixing/evaluating your ipod/iphone, that I havent been able to do anything cool. WAIT!!!!
Inspiration has hit me. So awhile back I saw this movie with Mel Gibson, “the edge of darkness”. I think thats what it’s called. Anyways, the whole thing was about revenge. Trying to get someone back for pain that they have caused you. For years now, ive been wanting to write a song about revenge, but ive never had that feeling. Sure ive been mad at people, but ive never wanted to cause harm to anyone. Then I got some inspiration. 3 weeks after christmas, my house was broken into. DVDs, iPods, Jewlery, and my brothers brand new Playstion 3 were stolen. Ive never felt soooo much anger before. I wanted these people to feel the pain that they caused my family. Then I saw that movie. The whole time I was like, “yea!”. haha, but then I realized, causing the bad guys pain wasnt going to bring back his daughter. (sorry if I ruined the movie there) So as the movie was coming to an end, I got this little melody in my head. Then I started putting some lyrics to it. I kept thinking, ” i have to get home to my guitar, or else im gonna lose this.” Then I remembered that I have the best tool for music on the go……my iPHONE!!! As im walking out of the theater I pulled out my phone, went into the voice notes app and sang the lyrics to the melody I came up with. As soon as I got home, I went straight to my guitar and started writing the song. “Revenge”. Its probably my favorite song that i’ve written. Still needs a little more work though.
Im sorry this blog went a little all over the place….but thats something I like. Spontaneous writing. I never know what Im gonna write till my fingers hit the keys.
Well thats it for me folks. Spring Break starts next week, please be safe.
(I dont know if I need to do this, but im not gonna take any chances)
I found the definition on this site: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/writer%27s+block
and this is what they had at the bottom : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Tags: 4 Songs, Anger, Bad Guys, Big Time, Edge Of Darkness, Favorite Song, Haha, Inspiration, iphone, ipod, Jewlery, Little Bit, Little Melody, Lyrics, Mel Gibson, Playstion 3, Revenge, Voice Notes, Whole Time, Yea
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March 12th, 2010 by Chris
Hello everyone, so some of you last month may have witnessed a change in my attitude and I sincerely apologize. You see I had this tooth that was bothering me and it was sending a blinding sharp pain all through the right side of my face, which in hand made me a bit cranky and somewhat short on patience. This being said I am sorry, but now I am all better and back to my normal self again. I am normally not the type of person to do a shout out in a blog but I cannot control myself this time. This shout out goes to B.D Tiner,DDS,MD and his AWESOME CREW @ Alamo maxillofacial Surgical Associates, P.A. ( http://www.alamomaxillofacial.com) this particular office is located at 4499 Medical Drive, suite 190. I called and they said they could see me the same day within the hour, so I drove straight over there going about 80 miles an hour with one eye closed to contain the pain (Mom & Dad if you’re reading this, that part about the reckless driving was a joke. However if they’re not reading this, then I am so serious) When i got to the office i was treated like a king, everyone was soo nice to me. They had me sit on this chair that was like one you would find in a dentist office but to me it felt like a throne. The whole procedure took about 30mins or so and I didn’t feel an ounce of pain. To everyone I was mean to before I had my tooth pulled…I am incredibly sorry. And to everyone I was mean to after I had my tooth pulled…. You deserved it j/k maybe not. And to B.D Tiner,DDS,MD and his AWESOME CREW @ Alamo maxillofacial Surgical Associates, P.A. I say THANK YOU for treating me so kindly and reinventing the phrase “It’s like pulling teeth” I would say it’s changed to “It’s like watching a Superbowl commercial” yeah you want to get back to the game but you don’t mind the wait. Thank you again
-Chris-
Tags: Alamo, Amp, Attitude, Dad, Dds, Dentist Office, Hello Everyone, Joke, Maxillofacial, Medical Drive, Mom, Ounce, Patience, Phrase, Pulling Teeth, Reckless Driving, Shout, Superbowl, Superbowl Commercial, Tiner
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March 11th, 2010 by Anthony
Kyn Sparks Blows the Follow-Through with iGarageFloor.com
When we shelled out big bucks for our stunning new flooring at our iPhone and iPod (and soon to be iPad repair shop), we thought it would be durable and last the test of time. But the iGarageFloor.com (aka PolymerGarage.com) flooring couldn’t hold up to a simple office chair with plastic wheels, as evidenced by this video:
We can understand it when unexpected things happen – heck, we see it in our business every once in a while – a part fails suddenly and a customer will call us on it. But we stand up and fix the issue. Kyn Sparks, despite numerous attempts to get him to fix the worn-out section of flooring with a new polymer coating, has ignored several attempts to resolve the situation.
This demonstrates to me that iGarageFloor.com (or now known as PolymerGarage.com) is more concerned about scoring new jobs than taking care of their previous customers. The importance of follow-through has apparently been lost on Kyn Sparks, and that’s a sad thing, as I believe taking care of your existing customer base is equally if not more important that efforts to find new customers.
So if you are hunting around for a new polymer garage floor in San Antonio, make sure that the company you select will be there before, during, and especially after to job is complete. If you don’t, you might just have a constant reminder staring you in the face that some people just don’t care.
Anthony Magnabosco, Owner
Milliamp LTD
Tags: Attempts, Constant Reminder, Customer Base, Flooring, Garage Floor, iphone, ipod, Job, New Jobs, Office Chair, Plastic Wheels, Polymer Coating, Sad Thing, San Antonio, Sparks, Staring You In The Face, Test Of Time, Youtube
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March 10th, 2010 by Aaron
As most of you know spring break for most college students will be next week. I personally never have had a true spring break. I’ve always been tied up with baseball games or tournaments. So this being my last semester in college and my baseball eligibility up I have go to see what is like to be just a regular college student. I am truly excited for spring break as this will be my first. I have taken a week off from my part time job here at Milliamp so that I am able to enjoy what little time I have left to be kid. I will be starting my spring break by traveling back home to midland, tx to see my family and meet up with some my friends as they arrive home from their respected schools. After a few days with our families we will be traveling back to San Antonio to celebrate St. Patrick’s day. We will then continue our journey to South Padre Island to meet up with some other of our friends as well for Texas Weekend to enjoy the last few days of not only our spring break but also our time together as college students.
Tags: Baseball Games, College Students, Few Days, Journey, Little Time, Midland Tx, Milliamp, Part Time Job, San Antonio, South Padre Island, Spring Break, St Patrick, Traveling, True Spring
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March 10th, 2010 by Lindsey
Hello everyone! I hope y’all are all having a spectacular day So last week I (begrudgingly of course) took off a few days from lovely Milliamp and flew to New Mexico to go snowboarding!!! It’s funny, the town i was going to (Clovis/Portales) is sooo infinitely tiny that I had to land in Lubbock, because that was the closest airport to the town. A 1.5 hour drive later, I immediately regretted my decision of coming as I arrived in the town with all of its podunk-glory… just kidding! My friend’s in the Air Force and based in Clovis, in case you were wondering why I would subject myself to this torture. Apparently they only allowed MTV into the town 3 years ago!! I mean, it is super-trashy and unnecessary, but still!! So my friend is a pretty adept snowboarder, and he was pretty confident that I’d be pretty good (*scoff*). I proved him wrong!! haha We went to Sipapu which is a fairly small mountain, thank God. It took me two arduous hours of self-hatred to get me down that mountain the first time!! I was seriously thinking about quitting, and I felt bad because my frustration makes me say not-so-nice things to my assisting friend! Anyways, after a stiff drink (jk) and a delicious turkey sandwich I attempted a second journey of torture. It went so much better! Only took me like 30 minutes! haha (It takes a ‘normal’ person about 8min, just to give you perspective). It was a lot of fun once I got started, although, I was fairly apprehensive once I started gaining momentum. My God, my body HATED me the next day.. it was so painful to move ANYTHING. My arms were super sore from all of my fun accidental snow-rompings and attempts to stand up on the board. All in all, it was a great trip! I would definitely go again, and hopefully not be such a pansy I would post some pictures, but I haven’t uploaded them off my camera yet! Sorry to disappoint all of you eager readers, haha. In other news, I found out that I got accepted to the Army-Baylor doctoral program for Physical Therapy! yeyah! Such a stress relief to find out I’ve actually been accepted somewhere!! I’m really excited because I’ve been planning on doing Physical Therapy since i was like 15? I’m ready to start the next chapter in my life and to have a whole slew of new experiences! Well that’s all the jabbering for today, I’ll torture y’all again some other time. 
Tags: Arduous Hours, Closest Airport, Delicious Turkey, Eager Readers, Gaining Momentum, Great Trip, Hello Everyone, Milliamp, Mtv, Mtv 3, Nice Things, Occurences, Pansy, Portales, Scoff, Self Hatred, Sipapu, Snowboarder, Stiff Drink, Turkey Sandwich
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March 6th, 2010 by Anthony
Stop the Cell Tower
There is an interesting effort underway going on in Sugar Land, Texas, specifically, in New Territory, a lush community in Southwest Houston. Seems there is going to be a big cell phone tower (complete with all the noisy machinery needed to install and maintain the structure) going up in New Territory, presumably the improve the wireless coverage in the area.
The big point of contention from the residents in New Territory, aside from the honking huge tower to be placed in their backyards, is the fact that the residents themselves were not told about the plans to install the cell phone tower in the first place.
This is obviously a dynamic, ever-developing story, so to keep up with the news, head to StopTheCellTower.com for all the details.
Anthony Magnabosco, Owner
milliamp.com
Tags: Backyards, Cell Phone Tower, Cell Tower, New Id, New Territory, Point Of Contention, Southwest Houston, Sugar Land Texas, Wireless Coverage
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March 4th, 2010 by yajaira123
Have you ever had that feeling of nostalgia? Your walking to a familiar place from your childhood, it could be the ice cream parlor or the old playground you used to wreak havoc at, or a tree that may look familiar of ones you climbed in your day? Well I’ve thought a lot about my childhood these past couple of days and I remember being a super tomboy awaiting the new FILAS to come out. I loved the show gullah gullah island and Are you afraid of the dark, now I look at my fav show and its Law and Order : SVU (very different). Geez, I wish I could go back to those goodburger, all that, Kenan and Kel times. Yes I am a product of the 90’s and proud of it! I remember the summers playing in the little plastic pool with the fish painted on the side eating an ice cream sandwich. I used to beg my mother to buy me shoes that light up and find me the latest and greatest my little pony and beanie baby. Unlike the typical girl my whole wardrobe was teenage mutant ninja turtles, and my bed sheets/room all barney. Everything was easy back then, I mean the biggest game console back then was Nintendo and I was the unfortunate kid in school to not have a game boy. Children don’t understand how great technology has become. Things were more authentic back then, not as cookie cutter as they are now, all in all I miss those times but enjoy these times growing up.
P.S. I still wish I was Donatello and had the moves like him.
Tags: Bed Sheets, Childhood Memories, Cookie Cutter, Familiar Place, Fav Show, Game Boy, Goodburger, Great Technology, Gullah Gullah Island, Havoc, Kenan And Kel, Law And Order, Little Pony, Mutant Ninja Turtles, New Filas, Old Playground, Teenage Mutant Ninja, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Tomboy, Typical Girl
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March 4th, 2010 by Bradley
So there is this class that I am taking at the University of Texas at San Antonio that is very interesting. Being a kinesiology major I am very intrested in anatomy and physiology of the human body. I am not trying to hate on my professor because he is an excellent teacher, but I believe he is going to make everyone in our class start having eating disorders. Seriously, he preaches about what you should and should not eat, then at the very end always says, but the best thing to do is not eat at all. I seriously leave the class and dont want to eat for extened amounts of hours. Which in my case is unheard of, because as you noticed before I love to eat (superbowl food blog). Another interesting thing kinesiology related I got to do is sit in a Bod Pod pictured below. It is really cool, it takes measurements throuch air pressure of your body compostion/body fat. Very nifty device, I felt like I was going to be shot out of a space ship into outer space. Then I got out and saw my results…uh yah, anyways how about baseball season. I am pretty excited, usually I am not into baseball as much as football or basketball, but I just joined a fantasy baseball team and will win! It what I do. Well I guess I am going to go smell some food for lunch…Thanks Professor. Go Astros!!!
Sorry this pic was taken before I put on my makeup. HA
Tags: Air Pressure, Anatomy And Physiology, Anatomy And Physiology Of The Human Body, Baseball Season, Basketball, Bod Pod, Body Compostion, Eating Disorders, Exercise Nutrition, Fantasy Baseball Team, Lunch, Makeup, Measurements, Nifty Device, Outer Space, Physiology Of The Human Body, Space Ship, Superbowl, University Of Texas, University Of Texas At San Antonio
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March 2nd, 2010 by Wes
So, I’ve been working in customer service, in various incarnations, for nearly 6 years now and i’ve learned a thing or two about how customer complaints can and should be handled. Having been “behind the counter” for so long, I’ve haven’t had to utilize the customer service skills of businesses I patronize, until this weekend.
My girlfriend, Chelsea, was moving into a new apartment and wanted to use movers, but do it on the cheap and stay local, so she did some googling and some research and came up with a company she thought would fit her needs, SA Moving Guy. She called the company and described the move and was quoted $170, total, for the move. So, satisfied with the quote, she booked the movers for a Friday.
Friday rolls around and we have several phone conversations with the movers about how their running behind, etc etc. The storage space which would need to be packed up and moved, closed at 9, the mover’s weren’t able to even make their way to the space until 8:30. All of this after anticipating their arrival around 3-4pm. We grudgingly accept to reschedule for the next day.
The movers arrive on time and begin to load up the space. Over an hour and a half later they finally arrive at the apartment and begin to unload. Just before they finish, I decide to call their office manager to arrange for some sort of compensation for the day we wasted waiting on them.
I called the office manager to try and work out payment and some sort of compensation for our time and was told we would be charged MORE than we were quoted and that he could only authorize a waiver of their “arrival fee” as they did not arrive when they said they would, if I wanted more of a discount, I would have to call the owner Monday. Luckily, the movers were pretty good with their customer service skills and got the owner on the phone for me. The owner, while apologetic, was as insincere about it as is humanly possible, he justified their lateness with saying “things happen” and told me that he could not compensate me any further for our loss of time. After an arduous 5 minute discussion with the man, he discounted our moving rate and we ended our call. Our miserable experience with the company was finally coming to an end. We paid and tipped the movers and they went on their way.
The lack of enthusiastic and adequate customer service was an excellent reminder of how important that job is, especially when it has to do with personal goods left in the charge of strangers. I’m proud to say that I am a customer service representative for a company that does have enthusiastic customer service and does value its customers. I can see how much proper customer service makes a difference in the customer/client relationship and what a benefit that brings customers.
Here at Milliamp, we strive to exceed every single customer’s expectations. From evaluations, to specified repairs, to battery kits, we aim to make our customer’s experience with our products and services positive and pleasant and we do this through excellent communication, support, and a cheerful attitude.
Tags: 6 Years, Customer Complaints, Customer Service Skills, Girlfriend, Googling, Hour And A Half, Incarnations, Lateness, Movers, New Apartment, Phone Conversations, Quote, Saying Things, Storage Space, Weren
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March 2nd, 2010 by Ryan
A new Final Fantasy is approaching, soon a new world of adventures for FF fans will be open and ready to be explored. Final Fantasy has been around since December 18th of 1987 when the very first was released upon the world. Squaresoft was the name of the company that produced this awesome series of games, and now have merged with Enix to make SquareEnix- Producer of Final Fantasy 13. This game will have 15+ characters and a remarkable storyline about a world called Cocoon that is inhabited by many peaceful ai controlled people that have lived in happiness and prosperity for a very long time Now an ancient evil has arose to claim the world ,change laws ,and establish anarchy. Final Fantasy is one of my favorite series of RPG games and i look forward to the magical release of this epic game. For those of you that will indulge this fantasy, have fun in the world of Cocoon.
Tags: Anarchy, Ancient Evil, Cocoon, Epic Game, Fantasy Final, Fantasy Game, Ff Fans, Final Fantasy 13, Fun, Happiness, Long Time, Prosperity, Rpg Games
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March 1st, 2010 by Michael R
‘Ello ‘Ello!
I hope life has been good to everyone this weekend,
It has for me, but i come bearing a dilemma, of sorts, with the lack of a certain APP on the iphone now or even in the near future im sure.
When i was 8 years old The Legend Of Zelda : Ocarina of Time came out on the still fresh N64 game console. I remember getting it for christmas the month after it came out. The actual storyline to the game, at first glance of the back of the box description, seems very cliche “hero saves the princess from a terrible evil”.
Once you play the game for little over 30 minutes though you begin to realize the depth and mystery to the unfolding story of a kingdom plagued by its own control over time and the greater divine forces that govern the world. Even as an eight year old i could sense while i was playing the beginning portion that some very intense, and for lack of a better phrase, EPIC events were about to come forth and shoot through my unsuspecting sponge of a mind, and forever change my views as a person (though i didn’t realize it til about high school when i got into philosophy and all that). With some of the most intense dungeons, baffling mazes and puzzles, and the most surreal landscapes and songs that will stick with you for years (im listening to one right now!) as well as an endless supply of unique characters and sub-stories behind each one, this game is by far one of the best games of this and last decade. Truth is, the greater meaning behind the game that you will discover at the end (or even a couple of plays through) will blow you away ten times more than the actual game play will, though im more than sure you wont be able to leave your TV for at least 2 hours between each session.
Little do people know that the creator of Mario Bros. is the same creator of the Zelda series. He has also stated that though they both were created at the same time and are closely related (as you see in Zelda games, i.e. Mario pictures hanging on the walls of the castle in Hyrule, or in Paper Mario you can see the hero of Zelda laying in a bed in the mushroom village), he decided to take Mario in a more linear direction, with lots of movement and time restrictions, while making Zelda a complete opposite game of free adventure and endless play time.
Whats funny is that Mario became a much more world known household name, but zelda to this day (which has just half as many games out as mario bros.) holds the title for the best nintendo franchise for a game, though sadly only one out of every 20 people i meet have even heard the name Zelda.
So please, lets all come together and bring light to this problem.
Someone out there needs to make a cool APP to play an iphone version of Zelda somehow, because everybody knows (nerds like myself) that computer emulators just ARE NOT the same thing as our beloved consoles. Though an ipod APP wont do it full justice.
Wheres the love for Zelda? mine is on my left arm, where is yours?
your friendly neighborhood friend,
Mike 2.0
Tags: 8 Years, Baffling Mazes, Best Games, Box Description, Cliche, Divine Forces, Endless Supply, Epic Events, First Glance, Game Play, iphone, Last Decade, Legend Of Zelda Ocarina, Legend Of Zelda Ocarina Of Time, Mario Bros, N64 Game, Ocarina Of Time, Sponge, Surreal Landscapes, Zelda Games, Zelda Series
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February 28th, 2010 by Martin
I repair tons of iPhones and iPods a week, usually noticing a trend on why certain devices break or crack. Here’s a list of things you can do to prevent any damage from your precious device.
1. Get a case for you iPod/iPhone (preferably a rubberized one). I noticed that an iPhone can break real easily if dropped on the floor from just a couple of feet above ground. If you have a case that can absorb some of the impact, then theres less of a chance that the glass on your iPhone will break. The same goes for the glass and LCD’s on iPods and the iPod touch.
2. Keep your iPod/iPhone away from water. Water damage is the number one reason a iPod or iPhone stops functioning fully. It will cause corrosion on major parts of the logic board, causing the device to work funny or stop working at all.
3. Avoid jail-breaking your iPod touch/iPhone. A jail-break on these device’s can run down a healthy battery and may cause a device to act very slow. There are a number of weird issues people come across when they jail-break their device.
4. Be careful where you leave your iPod/iPhone. If you leave your device in a car on a very hot day, there is a chance that something may cook on the inside, and making your device useless. Also, keep it with you at all times when in public, because these devices are a great prize in a robber’s eye. When your not using it, make sure to store it in a secure place that is dry and cool.
If anything bad happens to your device, there is no need to worry. There is a chance that a technician here at Milliamp will be able to help you. So no matter how bad the damage looks, it cant hurt to go with our evaluation service to see what we can to do to get your device up and running again.
-Martin Salas
Tags: Act, Corrosion, Evaluation Service, Funny, Glass Break, Hot Day, iphone, Iphones, ipod touch, Ipods, Jail Break, logic board, Reason, Robber, Secure Place, water damage, Water Water, Weird Issues
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February 25th, 2010 by Joe
I was browsing through the App Store today looking for a good game to download. I came across Plants vs Zombies. The title sounds stupid but what really caught my attention was that it was rated 5 stars with 4500 reviews. That i
s really hard to do. The point of the game is to kill zombies before they reach your house. To do this you have a wide selection of plants with various abilities. Regular green plants shoot and kill zombies, walnuts slow them down, sunflowers supply you with energy so you can grow more plants, and blue plants shoot twice as fast as the green ones. There are more types of plants that I have yet to unlock but I’m working on it. When you first start off you are limited to only sunflowers and green plants. The game really starts to pick up when you unlock the mines and bombs. This is a great game to have when you want to kill some time while waiting at a brothel. Its lots of fun, easy to learn, and its only $2.99 in the app store.
Tags: Bombs, Brothel, Good Game, Great Game, Green Plants, Lots Of Fun, Sounds, Sunflowers, Types Of Plants, Walnuts, Zombies
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February 23rd, 2010 by David
Hello people! I’ve done some awesome things the past 2 weeks. So, I got to go to the NBA All-Star game with my girlfriend. The best part of the whole thing was being able to that crazy huge stadium again. The game had a few cool moments, some nice dunks, passes….whatever. The lines to get in the staduim were SUPER long. There was alot of mud every where too…..that got on some Jordans that came out back in ‘98….that i decided to wear that very day. Not cool. It was an experience thats for sure, not sure if I would do it again though. While in Dallas I got to play with some snow! I havent played in snow since ‘05, so that was awesome.
The next cool thing I got to do was see my favorite band in the whole world. Switchfoot. Twice. They played here in San Antonio and in Corpus Christi. Before both shows me, my girlfriend and my brother got to hang out with the band for a little while. We got to spend more time with them in Corpus though. The singer used to have a Gibson SG like the one I have. He said it was one of his all time favorite guitars. Sadly, an airline messed it up in baggage. Perhaps I’ll give him mine….or trade?! I’ll see what he says when I see them again in May haha.
Now, the moment we’ve all been waiting for. THE BEST PIZZA IVE EVER HAD. Romes Pizza used to be my favorite pizza. Then it was Big Lous. Now another place has stolen my heart/stomach. Port Aransas Brewing Company. Obviously, they are based out of Port Aransas, TX. I dont drink beer, but they have a pretty cool 100 beer club. You try over 100 flavors of beer and then you get shirt. lol, pretty cool. The pizza was soooo simple, yet amazing. They dont use any sauce. They bread is very thin and crunchy/crispy. The pepporoni is 4 times bigger than normal. I cant remember what kind of cheese they had, but that was amazing as well. If you ever head down to the beach there, I highley reccomend stoping by Port Aransas Brewing Company.
That’s it for me friends. Im working late tonight and need to get back fixing your iPod/iPhone. Have a great week.
Tags: Alot, Beer Club, Best Pizza, Cheese, Cool Thing, Corpus Christi, Favorite Band, Favorite Guitars, Flavors, Gibson Sg, Girlfriend, Jordans, Mud, Nba All Star, Nba All Star Game, Pepporoni, Port Aransas, Stomach, Stoping, Switchfoot
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February 22nd, 2010 by Anthony
We see it every once in a while, perhaps as frequent as twice a month, where we get an envelope or a small mailer that is supposed to contain an iPod or an iPhone, but when we open it – nothing inside. Sometimes the tear in the envelope is obvious – you can see where the iPod busted free from it’s paper packaging. Other times, the box is sealed with tape, but there was just enough gap to allow an un-secured iPod nano from slipping out.
We of course hate when this happens – we lose a sale and of course have to break the bad news to the customer.
iPod Repair Starts with Good Packaging
That is why we try to give our customers guidance when it comes to selecting the right materials for wrapping up your device so that it is well-protected during the trip to us, as well as making sure it does not slide loose from its’ packaging. And never, ever toss your iPod or iPhone into a regular plain evelope – or we might have to tell you that your device arrived in worse shape than when you sent it, or it never arrived at all.
Best regards,
Anthony Magnabosco, Owner
milliamp.com
Tags: bad news, Envelope, Evelope, Gap, Guidance, iphone, Ipod Nano, Mailer, Paper Packaging, Shape
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February 22nd, 2010 by Justin
With the 2010 Winter Olypmics already under way in Vancouver Canada, the United States is off to a rough start in a few events but with 24 overall medals so far the United States is on top of the medal count leaderboard with the two closest countries following behind being Germany with 18 medals, and Norway with 12 medals. Although the US is struggling in some events they might have pulled up the biggest upsets last night overwelming the Canadian hockey team and defeating them 5-3. With Canada being heavely favored to win gold, not too many people could have called this upset but with the United States goalie (Ryan Miller) stopping 45 of 42 shots on goal you leave yourself a really good shot at winning the game. Going 3-0 in their hockey division, the US will have an extra day off in preparing for their next game in the quarter finals on Wednesday Feb. 24th at 12:00pm. With the next round of the Olympics only getting increasing in difficulty, hopefully the US will be able to survive better than the brontosaurus’.
Tags: Brontosaurus, Canadian Hockey Team, Feb 24th, Germany, Gold, Heavely, Hockey Division, Leaderboard, Medal Count, Medals, Next Game, Norway, Olympics, Quarter Finals, Ryan Miller, Shots On Goal, Vancouver Canada, Winning The Game, Winter Olypmics
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February 19th, 2010 by Mark
I went on a winery tour with my girlfriend this past weekend in Fredericksburg, TX. There are at least 9 wineries in Fredericksburg alone – who knew Texas was so big on wine? It seems that the Texas wines are a lot sweeter than most I’ve had from California, France, Italy, etc. Must be something in the grapes, or maybe Texans are just that sweet? We stayed at a bed and breakfast at a home built in 1905, and I don’t think they’ve changed decorations since then either. I found some letters in a really old purse while snooping around the house (if they didn’t want me snooping, they shouldn’t have left that stuff around!) and it was dated back to the 1910s! We ate a a very nice sushi restaurant called August Es. As good as the food was, I couldn’t stop looking at the creepy 20 foot mural of a bunch of nicely-dressed dogs staring at us and sitting on couches.
I had a strange dream the other night. I dreamt that I was at a party. It was time to go home, and someone asked me to drive Lionel Richie home. So Lionel got in the car, and on the road I asked him what kind of music he liked. He told me he didn’t really like music much, which is surprising considering he’s a musician. I guess I was too inebriated to drive, so we got out of the car and started walking. On the way there, we broke in to a closed library and started reading books. At that moment I realized he wasn’t Lionel Richie at all, rather Sherman Hemsley from The Jeffersons. I don’t remember anything after that, but I’m sure I was embarrassed for calling him Lionel all day.
Sherman Hemsley
Lionel Ritchie
Tags: 1910s, Closed Library, Couches, Foot Mural, Fredericksburg Tx, Grapes, Jeffersons, Lionel Richie, Lionel Ritchie, Purse, Random Things, Reading Books, Sherman Hemsley, Strange Dream, Sushi Restaurant, Texans, Texas Wines, Time To Go Home, Wineries, Winery Tour
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February 19th, 2010 by Marian
Hey, friends!
Day in and day out, we get a truckloads of packages from FedEx, US Postal Service and, of course, UPS! Filing in and out, these guys are always bringing us shiny new parts, broken iPods, busted iPhones and even a few XBOX 360s in dire need of some tender lovin’ care. (By the way, how in the world DOES one spell the plural of XBOX anyways???)
We’ve grown to love our drivers and always thank them for not blocking any of us in when they park. I believe that we’re all accustomed to the standard brown truck for UPS, FedEx and their white trucks and USPS with their cute little trucks. However, what does one do when they want to jazz it up a little? Sorry, no custom paint jobs here, but why not add some flames?
Well, apparently our driver, Mike, didn’t add them himself, but he did come in from a delivery to find them there. No matter! I’m sure it makes it go extra fast! Kind of like how the spoiler on my car makes my car go faster…
Gotta run — back to emails and phone calls!
Marian
Tags: Custom Paint Jobs, Dire Need, Fedex, Flames, Friends Day, Hearts, Hey Friends, Iphones, Jazz, Marian, Milliamp, Phone Calls, Spoiler, Tender Lovin Care, Truckloads, Ups, Us Postal Service, Usps, White Trucks, Xbox, Xbox 360s
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February 18th, 2010 by Anthony
We are continuously looking for ways to improve things here at Milliamp, like our infamous laser pointers, and recently focused our attention to the telephone greeting that people first hear when they call in to us.
We get a lot of phone calls each day – a LOT (just ask Marian).
Therefore, we wanted to make our greeting simplier and to the point, and help people get to the correct department quickly and painlessly. We also added a quick shout-out in our greeting to the iPad repairs that we will be offering very soon to the masses.
Curious and don’t want to call in to hear it? Take a listen here:
New iPhone Repair Greeting
Speaking of iPad repair shout-outs, we also recently updated the signature line on our emails, to help spread the word that we have yet another Apple device to add to our list of devices that we can repair here at Milliamp.
iPad Repairs Signature Line
Have a great Friday, safe weekend, and let us know when you are ready to get your iPod or iPhone fixed!!
Anthony Magnabosco, Owner
milliamp.com
Tags: Apple, iphone, ipod, Laser Pointers, Lot, Marian, Milliamp, People, Phone Calls, Phone Greeting, Shout Out, Shout Outs, Signature Line, Simplier
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February 17th, 2010 by Katie
I remember the good ole days when The Real World was the only reality show on the schedule and when you had to use the scrolling channel 7 list of “what’s on” and wait 10 minutes for it to come full circle if you missed the channel you were looking for. The year was 1992. Just kidding, I don’t remember that…I was 3. These days, I’m watching 3-4 reality shows a week (oh hush, I know you’re all secretly watching the Bachelor every monday night hiding in your rooms with your popcorn, on the edge of your seat during the “rose ceremony”).
The networks create shows for every possible life situation, and even some circumstances that would NEVER EVER occur in real life (i.e. to fall in love with Flava Flav). It seems like in the last year or two, these shows have surpassed sitcoms and dramas in ratings and abundance. Some of them give us a glimpse into the everyday lives of celebrities or faux-celebrities (coughSPEIDIcough) and others give regular people opportunities to become famous for…simply arguing with each other or dating on national TV. My question is, is this a trend, or is this development revolutionizing TV watching for ALL TIME?!?! I think there will always be reality show naysayers, but soon we all may be forced to conform to this trend. So what if Snooki Snickers, or whatever her name is, and Mike “The Situation” make 100 times more money than your average blue collar worker?
Tags: Abundance, Bachelor, Blue Collar Worker, Celebrities, Channel 7, Everyday Lives, Glimpse, Good Ole Days, Guilty Pleasure, Life Situation, Monday Night, National Tv, Naysayers, Popcorn, Real World, Reality Show, Reality Tv, Rose Ceremony, Sitcoms, Snickers
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February 15th, 2010 by Orlando
So, I take my wife to a local movie establishment to see the new monster movie, The Wolfman. We were having so much fun that night, to be more exact, things went swimmingly. Like most movies we show up early in order to reap the benefits of the an ancient system of organization…the “line”. Any who, we finally get through the theater doors. My first thought is that this place doesn’t have much seating; my second thought is, “Oh there’s two seats in the middle!”. As i approach the row, I kindly tell a women excuse me, as I try to make my way to a seat. Immediately I was denied passage to the promised land. The lady whom I had treated so nicely a few moments ago had revealed herself to be the real monster. This lady was trying to tell me that her and this other women are saving 12 seats. Unimpressed by the lady’s attempt to command the seating arrangements, I kindly made my way to the middle of the row they said was “reserved”. This action by me really opened the flood gates to the situation, because as they were trying to instruct me to move, the rest of the theater was telling them that that can’t try to save a whole row. Even though I sort of instigated the situation, I wasn’t the one who the ladies wanted to argue with. Soon after the start of the complaints an usher was trying to take command of the situation, and he told the women exactly what I had heard at another theater, and that is that, a ticket holder can only sav
e one seat. So if the dirty dozen wanted to have all of their seats taken care of they would have needed 6 ticket holders present, since they did not I was free to sit where ever I wanted. But, for some reason this explanation was not good enough for this rag tag duo, so the manager was brought in at this point. When the manager arrives he didn’t do anything, and he was obviously under some sort of influence. His speech was slurred and I don’t think he could walk too straight of a line. In the end we got the seats that we deserved and they got the heck out and asked for a refund. As for the movie i think they did a great job at making a suspenseful feature that may keep some guessing, but for those who are tuned in the the symbolism and dialogue you may quickly guess the ending. The cinematic effects were spot on. I honestly enjoyed the dark and gloomy sets, and the accents were not bad. However, I was mad that Benicio’s character didn’t have a English accent at all, but they quickly explain this with a few lines of dialogue…phew! All in all I would like to give this movie a 3.5 out of 5, but more importantly I hope people start learning how to act at the movies…especially the managers that work there.
Tags: Dirty Dozen, Few Moments, First Thought, Flood Gates, Heck, Manners, Monster Movie, New Movie, Rag Tag, Second Thought, Theater Doors, Ticket Holder, Ticket Holders, Usher, Wolfman
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February 14th, 2010 by Anthony
We get a lot of requests to fix iPods and iPhones, and we are happy to do it – it’s our livelihood! More times than not, we are able to fix iPods that need new batteries, iPhones that got partially-dunked in soda, and iPod touch screens that got shattered (just to name a few of the many types of repairs we can perform these days). We get devices from all over the world – most from the United States, but many from England, Canada, Japan, Abu Dhabi, China, Italy, Brazil, etc.
We even fixed an iPod that got run over by a tank from a U.S. soldier stationed in Afghanistan.
Recently, however, we had a woman walk into our shop with a broken iPod touch in need of repair. Now, we see a lot of iPod touch screens that are shattered, and from looking at the front of this device, our first impression was, heck, that’s something that we can do – no problem:
Damaged iPod touch Screen
But when we flipped over the iPod touch to inspect the backplate, our hopes to fix the device dropped:
iPod touch Backplate Damage
It’s an interesting story: a young man was using his iPod touch while working out and, when he lost grip of a twenty-five pound weight, his 2nd Generation ipod touch slipped out of his pocket, failling to the ground, and the weight fell right on top of it.
Rather than waste a lot of time, MaryLynn, the mother of the young man who accidentally-damaged his prized possession, took a few pictures and sent them to milliamp.com, just to see if it might be something we could fix.
We were not sure if this amount of damage would be repairable – and we told the customer that the odds were pretty low that we could fix it. We always try to set our customers’ expectations about everything from the amount of time it takes a device to move through our shop, to the likelihood that a repair could be successful, and this strange situation was no exception.
When we physically received the iPod touch, we were encouraged that the device appeared to power on when we pressed the ‘on’ button – a bright light on the damaged iPod touch LCD suggested faint life still remained.
Our main hope was the the iPod touch logic board survived the dumbbell trauma – if it did, we were sure we could replace the damaged LCD, digitizer/screen, battery, and battered backplate – iPod touch repairs that we do all day long here at milliamp.
Well, it turns out that the weight that was dropped landed right between the top and bottom of the logic board, so the owner’s data was safe and sound. We had one of our technicians re-build up a “new” iPod touch around his oh-so-lucky logic board, and the device looked brand new once again:
iPod touch Damaged then Repaired
In this image, you can see three of the battered components (LCD, backplate, and battery), along with a picture of the re-built iPod touch (the blue plastic you see is there to protect the brand new, scratch-free backplate we installed).
The young man was so excited that his iPod touch had been repaired (given to him by his Mom as an early Valentine’s gift) that he rushed to his Facebook account and gushed to his friends about the whole ordeal, and his happiness on how it all turned out.
We love happy iPod touch repair endings! Start your iPod touch repair adventure here now!
Tags: Abu Dhabi, Afghanistan, Amount Of Time, Batteries, First Impression, Heck, Interesting Story, Iphones, ipod touch, Ipods, Likelihood, Livelihood, Odds, Pound Weight, Prized Possession, Screen Caption, Soda, Soldier, Stra, Strange Situation, Touch Screens, Young Man
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