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Condensation… Leaving your laptop outside overnight?!

Written by Jess
Monday, 24 October 2011 15:20
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Computers, laptops, anything electrical doesn’t do well with condensation.

Why should you care? Did you mistakenly leave your laptop in the car overnight? 

Yes, Minnesota is enjoying some beautiful weather right now.  But soon we’ll be in the dark throes of winter.  If you bring your cold laptop into your office or home and it’s cold, all the parts within will have a thin coat of moisture.  Computers hate moisture.  Besides the longer term effects of rust and corrosion, it could create a “spark” of electrical conductivity.  Not good.

Our advice is to let the laptop sit for at least one hour before you start it up.  Our longer term advice is to keep your laptops, ipads and ipods, smartphones and everything else electric safe from dramatic temperature changes.

 

Pinching Pennies with your Computer?!

Written by admin
Tuesday, 18 October 2011 18:23
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How is Computer Wrangler different than all the other tech companies out there?

It’s actually embodied in our Mission Statement:  We engage people with technology.

We’ve found that once people (people comprise businesses) are stepped through the seemingly strange and ever-changing jungle of iPads and SmartPhones and Tablets and etc., they learn to approach the fast moving arena of high tech with new power and excitement. 

Knowing that you’ve got a partner on your side that deals with this everyday can put extra game in any presentation or sales call.

Think 3.  Three years.  That’s how long it really takes for your technology to become obsolete.

 

My computer crashed!

Written by Jess
Saturday, 26 March 2011 11:58
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Just last week my computer crashed.  Caused by, wait for it, a Windows Automatic Update.

 Now thankfully I could continue on with some of my work because I also use a laptop.  But a number of core business functions existed only on that PC.  We had two things in place that made this crisis completely survivable:

 1)       Online backup

2)      A team that understands the importance of the Yooey.

 For those of you who have forgotten, the Yooey is phonetic for UE or User Environment.  Had my PC been given back to me with the “wipe and clean install” so many other computer service companies perform, I would be looking at 5 or 6 hours of work to get back to halfway functioning.  Just like someone coming into your office and re-arranging the desk and chair and filing system and what’s in each drawer in that desk.  Oh yeah, they also rearranged the pictures on your walls and changed all the adjustments on your chair.  They didn’t take the extra step to save your Yooey.  Your working space you’re used to.

 But because of Computer Wrangler’s focus on the importance of the Yooey, I was able to sit down at my recovered PC and not miss a step.  It was a refreshing experience to see things from our client’s perspective.

 Another Yooey saved!