A review of "My Remote Repair"

Hey everyone, for the longest time I never did reviews of web site or other blogs, if I found a site I thought was really cool I would just e-mail my friends that I thought would be interested. After a while I got to thinking that some of the sites I have seen should be shared with everyone, and that brings me to my first review ever. Today I want to tell you about "My Remote Repair". This site is one of those hidden gold mines and has a lot to offer everyone when it comes to computer repairs. Below is an interview I did with Garry (The owner of My Remote Repair). Check it out and see what Garry had to say about his company.

Eric: Garry I want to first thank you for taking the time to do this interview. Let’s start by having you tell everyone a little bit about yourself.

Garry: I am 40 years old and married to my wonderful wife Lisa for 20 years. I have two sons one of which is in his first year of middle school. The other is a freshman at Colorado school of mines in Golden Colorado.

Eric: How and why did you come up with “Remote Repair”?

Garry: I had been employed in IT positions since 1994. I was laid off so many times that I felt that it was time to make a move. I started a company that services the Denver metro area residential and small Business community. This is before the geek squad and nerd herd were ever created. I have since expanded with a few techs of my own. During the last two years I have come to the realization that I can cut costs and time by implementing my services remotely. I started my site MyRemoteRepair.com in May of 2007.

Eric: What kind of services do you offer?

Garry: Diagnostics of computer issues, software repairs, software installs, and software tutorials. Virus, malware and spyware removal. Registry clean up, slow boots, lockups, E-mail issues, corrupted browsers, internet connection problems and so forth.

Eric: Can you fix most any kind of computer problem, including hardware troubles?

Garry: There is just a handful of issues that can’t be solved remotely. We can identify these in short order with no inconvenience to the customer. I have been trouble shooting hard ware for so long that I have a wealth of easy workarounds for most problems.

Eric: Can you provide backups of my hard drive?

Garry: Yes, I can provide a strong backup strategy for home users and small business and teach them hands on how to best utilize it.

Eric: Where are you located and how many stores do you have?

Garry: I am located in Centennial, CO. I work exclusively from my home office. With no brick and mortar store to support or a dolled up VW to insure I can offer significantly better value and lower prices then the competition.

Eric: Please explain how remote repair works.

Garry: The customer goes to the site and clicks on get started. They complete a simple form and submit it. I follow up with a phone call and verbal instructions on how to get connected remotely.

Eric: Garry, what about those who may not have internet access, is there any way that you could help then as well?

Garry: Sure, with my years of experience doing this without the help of remote I have developed a keen sense of what’s occurring and can visualize what can remedy the problem.

Eric: Now days everyone is very concern about computer security “Is my computer safe”. How do I know you are not using spyware or that you can access my computer from the internet without my knowing it?

Garry: The software package that I use to screen share with the customers is super safe. The connection is made on the logmein server. This server builds a 256 bit bridge from my machine to the customers. (Military strength) The customer has the ability to stop the connection at any time. The connection can only be initiated with a randomly generated six digit pin. After the connection is terminated all fire wall changes are restored to the original configurations.

Eric: Once you are in my computer can you see everything on it? And what if I don’t want you to look at something, say a file?

Garry: Because we are screen sharing you will observe my every movement with the mouse cursor. You have immediate control to take back over and terminate the connection. We are also speaking live on the telephone at the time of the connection.

Eric: All of this sound really great, but here is the big question, How much does all this cost?

Garry: Your initial half hour is at $35.00. Most clients purchase at least one hour. Along with the ability to remote in I am also a wealth of knowledge pertaining to computer purchases and computer questions. It’s like having a full time help desk at a fraction of the cost.

Eric: Now that I know the cost and that you pay for half hour segments, what happens if I say buy a 2 hour block of time and I only use about 45 minutes. Do I lose the rest of my time or do I get a refund for the remainder or can I use the rest of it at a later time?

Garry: When you purchase one hour or more it allows you to break your time up into fifteen minute segments. Any time not used will be saved and utilized in future sessions. This banked time can be used with your permission by other family members and friends.

Eric: Do you guarantee your work?

Garry: I guarantee my work for thirty days on changes that I have initiated. Some exceptions do apply.

Eric: Do you ever run specials?

Garry:I do run specials from time to time. These are sent once a month via email to customer’s e mail accounts. I have an ongoing special for potential customers to try a demonstration of the product for free with no obligation. They simply log on to the site MyRemoteRepair.com. Click on get started. Fill out option one and submit. (Three Questions) You will have the opportunity to work with me personally and have all your questions answered.

Eric: Garry I want to thank you again for taking the time to do this little interview. I think you have a great business, and I think you have something really great to offer the average person who may not know what to do when their computer crashes. So in closing is there anything else you would like to tell everyone out there who is reading this interview?

Garry:Thanks for interviewing me Eric and look forward to helping all of you.

Well there you go everyone. If you are having troubles with your computer or you just need someone to go in and clean it up, just click on the title of this interview and you will be taken right to "My Remote Repair". Give it a try you can't go wrong and I know you will be very happy with the things they can do for you, or if you can't use them right now try buying sometime for a family member who might need it.

WOULDN'T IT BE GREAT !

Well, everyone here is an article that is sure to get a fire storm going. This was something that was sent to me and normally I would not have put this out, however I think the time has come and this is something that most Americans want to hear from some one out there running for president. Now I know not everyone in France, Germany or Russia were against us or the war in Iraq. So, this article is not pointed at you. However, if you were against us or the war and you are offended all I can say is "OH WELL GET OVER IT!!". Know I can't speak for anyone else, But I think if some one running for president was to have the guts to say this, I would vote for them rather they were a Liberal Democrat or a Republican.

WOULDN'T IT BE GREAT TO TURN ON THE TV AND HEAR ANY U.S. PRESIDENT, DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN GAVE THE FOLLOWING SPEECH?

My Fellow Americans: As you all know, the defeat of the Iraq regime has been completed. Since congress does not want to spend any more money on this war, our mission in Iraq is complete. This morning I gave the order for a complete removal of all American forces from Iraq this action will be complete within 30 days.

It is now time to begin the reckoning. Before me, I have two lists. One list contains the names of countries which have stood by our side during the Iraq conflict. This list is short. The United Kingdom, Spain, Bulgaria, Australia, and Poland are some of the countries listed there.

The other list contains every one not on the first list. Most of the world's nations are on that list. My press secretary will be distributing copies of both lists later this evening.

Let me start by saying that effective immediately, foreign aid to those nations on List 2 ceases immediately and indefinitely. The money saved during the first year alone will pretty much pay for the costs of the Iraqi war. THEN EVERY YEAR THERE AFTER it’ll GO TO OUR SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM SO IT WON’T GO BROKE IN 20 YEARS. The American people are no longer going to pour money into third world Hell holes and watch those government leaders grow fat on corruption. Need help with a famine? Wrestling with an epidemic? Call France.

In the future, together with Congress, I will work to redirect this money toward solving the vexing social problems we still have at home. On that note, a word to terrorist organizations. Screw with us and we will hunt you down and eliminate you and all your friends from the face of the earth. Thirsting for a gutsy country to terrorize? Try France or maybe China. I am ordering the immediate severing of diplomatic relations with France, Germany, and Russia. Thanks for all your help, comrades. We are retiring from NATO as well.

I have instructed the Mayor of New York City to begin towing the many UN diplomatic vehicles located in Manhattan with more than two unpaid parking tickets to sites where those vehicles will be stripped, shredded and crushed. I don't care about whatever treaty pertains to this. You creeps have tens of thousands of unpaid tickets. Pay those tickets tomorrow or watch you’re precious Benzes, Beamers and limos be turned over to some of the finest chop shops in the world. I love New York.

A special note to our neighbors, Canada is on List 2. Since we are likely to be seeing a lot more of each other, you folks might want to try not pissing us off for a change. Mexico is also on List 2 its president and his entire corrupt government really needs an attitude adjustment. I will have a couple extra thousand tanks and infantry divisions sitting around. Guess where I am going to put them? Yep, border security.

Oh, by the way, the United States is abrogating the NAFTA treaty starting now. We are tired of the one-way highway. Immediately, we'll be drilling for oil in Alaska- which will take care of this country's oil needs for decades to come. If you're an environmentalist who opposes this decision, I refer you to List 2 above: pick a country and move there. It is time for America to focus on its own welfare and its own citizens. Some will accuse us of isolationism. I answer them by saying, “darn toot in”. nearly a century of trying to help folks live a decent life around the world has only earned us the undying enmity of just about everyone on the planet. It is time to eliminate hunger in America it is time to eliminate homelessness in America.

To the nations on List 1, a final thought. Thank you guys. We owe you and we won't forget. To the nations on List 2, a final thought: You might want to learn to speak Arabic. God bless America. Thank you and good night.

If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you are reading it in English, thank a soldier.

Things Teachers wish they could say on some report cards

A friend sent me this e-mail about some teachers in New York city who really did put these comments on student report cards. I thought it was very funny and I know there are a lot of you teachers out there that wish you could do the same thing at one time or another. The only real sad part about this is that there are some students out there that should have these kinds of comments on their report cards.

These are actual comments made on students' report cards by teachers in the New York City public school system. All teachers were reprimanded but, boy, are these funny!!!

1. Since my last report, your child has reached rock bottom and has started to dig.
2. I would not allow this student to breed.
3. Your child has delusions of adequacy.
4. Your son is depriving a village somewhere of an idiot.
5. Your son sets low personal standards and then consistently fails to achieve them.
6. The student has a "full six-pack" but lacks the plastic thing to hold it all together.
7. This child has been working with glue too much.
8. When your daughter's IQ reaches 50, she should sell.
9. The gates are down, the lights are flashing, but the train isn't coming.
10. If this student were any more stupid, he'd have to be watered twice a week.
11. It's impossible to believe the sperm that created this child beat out 1,000 ,000 others.
12. The wheel is turning but the hamster is definitely dead.

My favorite is # 12. So what do you think? should we let teachers put this kind of thing on a report card?

Oh for the simple times once more

Hey everyone a good friend of mine sent this to me and I think it’s worth sharing with you. I hate to say it, but I can remember all of these things. These were simple times, until Attorneys and greed started to show up. That’s when everything started to fall apart.

Black and White

(Under the age of 40? You won't understand.)

You could hardly see for all the snow,
Spread the rabbit ears as far as they go.
Pull a chair up to the TV set,
'Good Night, David.
Good Night, Chet.'

My Mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs, and spread mayo on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't seem to get food poisoning.

My Mom used to defrost hamburger on the counter AND I used to eat it raw sometimes, too. Our school sandwiches were wrapped in was paper in a brown paper bag, not in icepack coolers, but I can't remember getting e. coli.

Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then.

The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a pager was the school PA system.

We all took gym, not PE...and risked permanent injury with a pair of high top Ked's (only worn in the gym) instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors. I can't recall any injuries, but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we are now.

Flunking gym was not an option...even for stupid kids! I guess PE must be much harder than gym.

Speaking of school, we all said prayers and sang the national anthem, and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention.

We must have had horribly damaged psyches. What an archaic health system we had then. Remember school nurses? Ours wore a hat and everything.

I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud of myself.

I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play station, Nintendo, X-box, or 270 digital TV cable stations.

Oh yeah...and where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed!

We played 'king of the hill' on piles of gravel left on vacant construction sites, and when we got hurt, Mom pulled out the 48-cent bottle of Mercurochrome (kids liked it better because it didn't sting like iodine did) and then we got our butt spanked.

Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $49 bottle of antibiotics, and then Mom calls the attorney to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a treat.

We didn't act up at the neighbor's house either because if we did, we got our butt spanked there and then we got our butt spanked again when we got home.

I recall Skippy from next door coming over and doing his tricks on the front stoop, just before he fell off. Little did his Mom know that she could have owned our house. Instead, she picked him up and swatted him for being such a goof. It was a neighborhood run a muck.

To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a dysfunctional family. How could we possibly have known that?

We needed to get into group therapy and anger management classes? We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn't even notice that the entire country wasn't taking Prozac! How did we ever survive?

Love to all of us who shared this era, and to all who didn't...sorry for what you missed...
I wouldn't trade it for anything.

Pass this to someone and remember that life's most simple pleasures are very often the best.