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Sep 1 2010

How to respond to the Service Battery warning

Last weekend, while testing some battery conditioning software for a future story, I noticed a distressing alert in my Battery menu in the Menu Bar. It said “Service Battery” accompanied by that nasty triangle with the exclamation point in it.

Not a happy thing. NOT awesomeness.

Fortunately, I’m spending most of the week creating videos at Mac Station in Abbotsford, so I have access to skilled and certified Apple Specialists who are able to check out my battery and see if it’s really finished.

Fortunately for you, this level of service as not reserved just for friends and family of Apple dealers. If your machine is under warranty1 this service is free and, quite likely, any repair required thereafter.

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Don’t be afraid of bringing your Apple products in for service—that’s what the warranty is for.

Thanks to Jeremy Wedel ( @az1de ) for running the diagnostic on my battery and talking with me today on camera so that I could share this technological life lesson with you. My battery failed under warranty and before its time, so my replacement will be free of charge.

Awesomeness.

Follow-up video here

  1. and I cannot recommend highly enough that you get AppleCare with your Mac purchase [↩]

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Oct 9 2006

How to enable your iPod Screen Saver

Someone presumably named Francis Real who has borked his .Mac bandwidth with this tutorial on how to enable your iPod Screen Saver. From the mirrored instructions on LifeHacker, the little hack merely makes use of an unexposed feature of the 5G video enabled iPods that was meant to allow Apple Stores and Apple Dealers to display these units with self-activating movies on them. Now you can do it too!!

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Jun 14 2005

Apple Specialists invite vendors to ”Speed Dating” Event at Macworld Boston

More than 50 Apple Specialist owners are expected to attend a one day “best practices” meeting at Macworld Conference and Expo Boston on July 11, 2005. The meeting will include presentations, roundtable discussions, Vendor “Speed Dating” over lunch and a table-top vendor fair.

During the Vendor Speed Dating event, vendors have five minutes to talk about their products and services to a table of Apple dealers. “Vendor speed dating puts vendors up close with dealers who need to know about their products,” said Richard Haddock, Director of Communications for the Apple Specialist Marketing Co-op. “It’s a powerful combination of face-to-face sales and networking that creates instant relationships.”
The ASMC meeting will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Monday, July 11. The vendor fair will be open from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. and will include table-top displays and heavy hors d’oeuvres.

Vendors wishing to participate should contact ASMC President Kevin Langdon at 858-277-9653 or via email. For more information on Apple Specialists visit their web site.
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