I will be closed and only accepting mail-in screen repairs and data recovery projects starting April 8th. If you would like to ship your hard drive in for data recovery or your Mac in for screen repair, please start the process on my mail-in repair site: MacScreenRepair.com

What To Do If You Lose Your iPhone

  What should you do if you lose your iPhone? Did you leave it at work, the store, or is it hiding under the couch cushions? Maybe a good Samaritan found it and is trying to return it to you. Maybe you just need a little hint for where to search. Luckily, there’s an easy …

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I will be closed and only accepting mail-in screen repairs and data recovery projects starting April 8th. If you would like to ship your hard drive in for data recovery or your Mac in for screen repair, please start the process on my mail-in repair site: MacScreenRepair.com

How to Transfer Your Data to Your New Mac

Transfer data between two computers

    It’s a great time of year to get a new Mac. Maybe you’ve got your eye on one of the latest MacBook Pro models with the fancy new touch bar controls, or you’re saving up your Christmas money for an upgraded refurbished used MacBook like the ones we have listed on our sale …

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I will be closed and only accepting mail-in screen repairs and data recovery projects starting April 8th. If you would like to ship your hard drive in for data recovery or your Mac in for screen repair, please start the process on my mail-in repair site: MacScreenRepair.com

How to Safely Clean the Outside of Your Mac

Spray bottle for cleaning Mac

  Computers get used every day, so it’s no surprise that they can get a little dirty from time to time. Screens get smudgy, keyboards get crumbs spilled on them, residue from your hands builds up on the trackpad, and dust gets on everything. But how can you clean your Mac safely, without damaging it? …

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I will be closed and only accepting mail-in screen repairs and data recovery projects starting April 8th. If you would like to ship your hard drive in for data recovery or your Mac in for screen repair, please start the process on my mail-in repair site: MacScreenRepair.com

Fake Popup Alert Messages from Genieo Adware

Geneio Adware Popup Dialog Box

  Adware always seems to come in waves. We had two different computers in the shop today with similar popup messages. Both computers would work normally for about 30 minutes, and then internet browsing would slow down dramatically. The cause was an unwanted program called Genieo that sneakily found its way onto their Macs and …

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I will be closed and only accepting mail-in screen repairs and data recovery projects starting April 8th. If you would like to ship your hard drive in for data recovery or your Mac in for screen repair, please start the process on my mail-in repair site: MacScreenRepair.com

News From The Bench – MacBook Pro won’t turn on at all

Aluminum MacBook Pro Laptop

A customer brought us this old MacBook Pro computer the other day. The 15 inch MacBook Pro wouldn’t respond at all when she pressed the power button. The screen was completely black and the laptop didn’t produce the familiar start up chime. She was afraid that all of her work and family photos stored on …

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