Tag: REPAIRS

After a virus left his computer in disrepair, 46-year-old Daniel Wagner of Sheboygan, Wisconsin did what most people would do; he took it to a store to get it fixed. Unlike most people, however, Daniel Wagner keeps a lot of child pornography on his PC. You can probably guess where this is headed. Apparently completely oblivious to the fact that underage porn is, um, illegal, Wagner waltzed into ...

Frustrated with his beloved iPhone acting up on him, Popular Mechanics writer Glenn Derene used the opportunity to write this piece on the iPhone, and the larger state of electronics today. After struggling to coax functionality from the iPhone's buttons for months, Derene finally caved in, taking the phone to his local Apple Store's Genius Bar. The resulting tale should not be unfamiliar to any ...

Yet another GPS install horror story. This one comes out of of Los Altos, California, where the Car Stereo Company caused over $12,000 in damages to the 1996 BMW M3 of Consumerist reader Brandon. After Brandon had taken his admittedly aging luxury sedan in for the install, he noticed that hot air was leaking in through his dashboard vents, even when the air conditioner was on. Several ...

It's the perennial question whenever your iPod, laptop, cell phone, or other device suddenly stops working -- should I replace this or can it be fixed? Surprisingly, seemingly unfixable problems like a cracked LCD laptop screen can be fixed for not too much money either by you, or by sending it out to a repair person. Same goes for a cracked iPod screen. And, according to a recent article in ...