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Greetings!

Yes, I'm in a good mood, even on the day after we send all those checks off to the big slush-fund in Washington...but we'll set that story aside and chat about something that I am truly excited about, TechRestore, the Mac, iPad - you get the picture.

First, the iPad:

I was fortunate enough to spend last week on Maui with family and friends with the only frustrating part of the trip being that I had to wait until Monday, April 4th to get my iPad delivered to me - what's the deal with no Saturday delivery on the island? Oh, I forgot about "island time" - I guess that's why we go over there in the first place, to relax and forget about things like overnight shipping. Anyway, after spending a week with this new device, I have a few comments, but I'll leave the extensive reviews to all the pundits and fanboys on the Internets.

iPad comment #1 : You will want one.

iPad comment #2 : Wait for the 3G version. Being limited to WiFi defeats the purpose of owning one.

iPad comment #3: If you can't wait and you buy (or bought) a WiFi only version - at least you can enjoy being treated like a rock star when you use one in a public place. But still, wait for the 3G if you can.

iPad comment #4: Get a case

iPad comment #5: You will break it. It's super shiny, super slippery and you will have it in your hands all the time...until it hits the floor. See comment 4 to help avoid breakage. We got our first iPad repair request within 48 hours after the iPad was released.

iPad comment #6: We will fix it. Of course we will – we have parts in stock now and once the dust settles on our move we will be announcing a full lineup of repairs.

Final iPad comment: It's just the beginning. Love it or hate it, the iPad contains the future of computing, today. The touch interface is immersive and the always on connection to the net is addictive.

Be sure to check out our iPad disassembly video below - Brian and Ivan have done a great job putting together over 1600 photos in an entertaining and informative 3 minute video.

TechRestore - the evolution of a brand

Back in 2004, I had the fortunate chance to take the team of experts that I had worked with since 1994 and startup TechRestore. We were excited about new opportunities and we quickly blew through all of our projections and our expectations about what our business could achieve. Now, as we get ready to perform our 54,000th repair (that's fifty-four-THOUSAND) , we continue to evolve into a company that is focused on exceeding your expectations, creating a great work environment for our team and giving back to the community - especially the Mac community. We are currently outfitting a new facility to better serve our local clients in the San Francisco Bay Area, we're expanding into some new branded product lines, building a new website and Customer Relationship Management application, developing a new iPhone and iPod Touch app and more - in other words, we are BUSY and excited about the future.

Since we're all about change, today we're rolling out an evolution of the TechRestore logo that you will soon see on our website and in our advertising over the next month or so. I wanted to give my closest 20,000 subscribers first look! :-) Originally, we had a different logo for each service that we offered, but we soon realized that our primary logo was the most popular and we stuck with it.

Let me know what you think about the new logo, I would love your comments!

DiamondGlass

When Apple first released the Unibody MacBook Pro series back in 2008, my first comment, upon seeing the glass cover that is installed on top of the LCD screens was "We are going into the glass business". And we have done that with a vengeance. Not only are we repairing the broken glass on hundreds of Unibody MacBook and MacBook Pros each month, we also currently supply repair companies all over the world with glass replacement panels. One problem we've seen in the glass panel replacement market is cheap, thin, fragile glass panels being offered as replacements for the original glass. These panels seem to make their way from China and other countries and they are of such poor quality that they can break by just handling them. After seeing consumers and businesses getting duped into buying this poor quality glass, from other companies, we decided to put together a video showing just what junk is out there in the marketplace.

Today, we are thrilled to announce the launch of our premium Unibody MacBook & MacBook Pro glass replacement panels - DiamondGlass by TechRestore. DiamondGlass panels are the strongest and highest quality replacement glass screen covers available for your Mac - period. You don't have to take our word for it - join me in watching the destruction:

As I mentioned in the video, we are currently using DiamondGlass panels for our glass repairs and we will soon have self-install glass panels available with video instructions on our website.

FUTURESHOCK

Hello again!

It's been a crazy couple of weeks, with the iPad release, beginning the move to our new building, the iPhone OS 4.0 announcement, etc... And now that Shannon's back from Maui (the real reason he's in such a good mood (c; ) we can get back to our regular schedule of Buzz e-mails.

Video

This time around, we have a new stop-motion animated disassembly video of - you guessed it - the iPad! Check it out:

1675 frames of high-definition unboxing, take-apart and reassembly, in under 3 minutes - all set to a wicked beat, TechRestore style! HD quality, iPad/AppleTV, and iPhone/iPod versions will be posted on our video downloads page soon!

Photos

If you'd prefer to just peep some photos, we have still-frames of the iPad disassembly posted on our Flickr page.

Music

If you like the music in our iPad Disassembly video, you're in luck, because I'm offering it as a free mp3 download, called iPadrone! Since I ran out of appropriately electronic sounding canned music, I created a new track, in Garage Band. You can listen to iPadrone, or download a copy, to enjoy on your i-device of choice

iPhone App Pick

Here's another great game that doesn't get much attention: Blastination. The gameplay is unique but intuitive and the 2D graphics are quite artful. In fact, this app seems like the type of thing you'd find at the gift shop, in the Museum Of Modern Art..if they sold iPhone apps, that is. Check it out here or go directly to the iTMS app store and get the free version.

Enjoy!

Brian Northway
Designer/Animator

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