BienTek now provides Apple repair services, including the following services (some are on-site; most are pick-up or drop-off services): LCD screen replacement, hard drive diagnostics & replacement, memory upgrades, data recovery.
Also, BienTek is looking to partner with technicians highly-skilled in Apple repair. Small businesses looking to partner with BienTek are invited to apply here.
BienTek is looking for computer technicians in Michigan that serve the following areas: Canton, Troy, Lansing, Ann Arbor, Brighton, Wayne, Westland, Livonia, Waterford, Southfield, Farmington Hills, Redford, and Northville, MI. Small computer shops and independent businesses are in especially high demand. Can your business or shop take on extra work? If so, contact BienTek. As an independent technician partnering with BienTek, you receive the opportunity to accept jobs that match your talents and service area. Since you are an independent contractor, you are not under obligation to accept jobs that do not suit your preferences. Laptop repair experts are in especially high demand, followed by Mac repair experts and data recovery specialists. Here‘s the application.
Is your Droid-X rebooting when sending Gmail?
Update Sept. 30, 2011: With the Droid-X continuing to crash under these fixes, a new solution emerges: simply remember to hit the home button before locking the screen. It seems that the rotation of Pandora (and other apps like DoggCatcher) that occurs while locking your screen may be responsible for most of the crashes.
Update March 7, 2011: It seems that uninstalling and reinstalling the Gmail and Pandora apps might help, although it’s not yet known whether the order matters.
If you own a Motorola Droid-X, you might be dealing with semi-random crashes when using the preinstalled Gmail app, where the phone reboots when you try to send email. For me, the usual “clear the cache” type tricks did not work. Neither did setting the phone back to the original factory state.
The solution: go to the Market and install the Gmail app from there. You’ll see the app changes in appearance and behavior a bit. This is probably the easiest way to resolve the crash / restart issue. Surprisingly, there was no “update notification” for Gmail – I just tried going to the market on a whim and discovered the update.
BienTek’s February Coupon is available. Get $10 off your Michigan computer repair services.
Since we are a computer repair business, why would we want yours to succeed?
It’s simple: we partner with other small computer service businesses – whether you run a shop or work from home – to ensure that the job gets done by the right tech. BienTek literally means “Good Tech” – and if you’re a good tech with a specific computer skill to offer, then we’re interested in working with you. If your small business has some spare time to take on extra jobs each week, then give it some consideration: as a subcontractor, you could perform additional work only when you have the extra time and the job is a good match for your skillset. You’re not required to perform any jobs unless you accept them, so you can accept only the jobs that interest you.
BienTek is currently looking for technicians that can serve Canton and Lansing, Michigan.
Skills in high demand for January 2011:
Home computer repair customers: BienTek’s December coupon is available here.
Does your computer repair business keep its technicians (or you) busy 100% of the time? Most likely not.
Computer repair businesses – especially small ones like independent shops – should consider working with other businesses to accept jobs when they have downtime. Partnering with another computer repair business might mean working as a subcontractor for that business (on a 1099 basis), with the possibility of accepting several jobs a week. Although it might mean earning less money per job (since the business that you’re working for is taking a cut), the benefit is clear: you’re working when you would have otherwise had downtime.
BienTek is an example of a technology services contractor looking to hire other computer repair businesses. It works like this: when you work as an independent contractor for BienTek, you potentially receive several job opportunities per week to perform the computer services that your business specializes in. These jobs are typically in your area (sometimes a fair amount of driving is required, but BienTek tries to offer you jobs that are mostly local). As a contractor, you have the opportunity to accept each job or turn it down based on its appeal to you and your availability – that’s your choice since you’re a contractor, not an employee. It’s a great way to fill the gaps in your schedule. Although there is no guarantee of work, great technicians tend to receive more job opportunities – and they can negotiate a higher fee.
Questions? Post them in the comments, and Brian Bien (owner) will try to answer them.
BienTek just posted a Michigan computer repair jobs update on Craigslist. Computer businesses: see if you’re in one of the areas that we would like to subcontract work to.
BienTek is increasing its focus on laptops. Our new laptop repair page highlights our main laptop repair services: lcd replacement and power jack repair. Of course, general computer repairs like virus removal, as well as general diagnostics, are also included in our laptop services.
Michigan laptop specialists: this is a good time to visit our job application page.
After a customer returned his BFG graphics card to BFG Technologies Inc, claiming the lifetime warranty, BFG responded with the following:
BFG Technologies, Inc. is winding down and liquidating its business. Unfortunately our major supplier would not support our business. As a result we are returning your graphics card without being able to repair it. We apologize for the inconvenience.
In a recent statement, John Slevin, chairman of BFG Technologies said:
“…I’d like to stress that we will continue to provide RMA support for our current graphics card warranty holders, as well as for all of our other products such as power supplies, PCs and notebooks.”
However, this no longer appears to be the case. If you were thinking of upgrading your computer, you might be wise to avoid BFG products, or at least consider that the warranty might not be honored.
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