We promise that we’ll be the first place to go for iPad parts when it comes out at the end of the month. Please make sure to get a case for your device as it will break very easily. Our suppliers are already building up stock and just waiting to send us the best quality parts at the cheapest cost so we can make the repairs easier on you.

Whether you break the glass, crack the LCD or dent the aluminum casing, we’ll be able to get it fixed in very little time.

What can you do with on-site consulting? The options are nearly unlimited, but here are the top requests:

• Application training: want to learn an Apple product? Let us help.
• Internet 101: we’ll take you online in style and show you today’s most popular internet trends.
• iPod help for those who are just getting into the digital music scene.
• iTunes organization and optimization: get more from your music, tv shows and movies.
• Network set up and troubleshooting.
• Hardware upgrades: don’t bring it to the shop, we’ll come to you!
• Hardware repair: in some cases, we can do the repair at your home or business.
• Home theater installation: help your living room dress to impress.
• Small business set up: we can build custom solutions for you whether you’re starting or updating.
• Wordpress training: we’re skilled in today’s internet tech, let us get you going so you can do the rest!

We’re great teachers and have helped many people gain tremendous knowledge in the Apple world. We’d love to help you with anything we can… if it’s not on this list, don’t worry about it, we can probably still help — or find the right person for the job.

We know that there are companies (some guy and his van) offering to replace your iPhone glass for $60. Be wary of that price! We actually purchase our glass at a hefty price to bring you “Apple-Original” glass. You can definitely find iPhone glass for $13 on eBay, but we don’t believe in bringing terrible knockoffs into our shop. $13 glass is not manufactured by Apple and it’s not made to the same specifications… you may very well end up with a non-functional iPhone because they’re using b-stock knockoffs.

Other companies in the area use the same glass we do and charge $200 to replace it. We don’t necessarily think that’s the best price for the customer, so we’ve drastically reduced our margins in order to bring you great quality glass and the lowest price you can get… for legitimate service.

We try to focus specifically on the iPhone 3G and 3GS due to the difficult design of the 1st generation iPhone. If you’re interested in a 1st generation screen replacement, it’s $249… you’re probably better of replacing the phone. In the first generation iPhone, the LCD, Digitizer and Glass are all one piece thus the higher price tag. Our suppliers have yet to bring prices down to where we can make this repair cost-effective, but we’ll let you know if we ever get there.

This deal gives you a 7200 RPM hard drive (only the best), you also get the installation and the data transfer at no extra charge. You pay $179 plus tax… that’s it. There aren’t any hidden fees and we won’t pressure you into buying other upgrades. In fact, we run a full suite of diagnostics on every machine that comes through our doors. You can be sure that your machine is getting the best treatment available.

Want more space? We can special order 1.5TB and 2TB drives! We’ve bundled those drives into great deals as well: $229 and $299 respectively. If you find a better deal from one of our local competitors, we’ll match it and take an additional 10% off. Yes, we’re that confident that we have the best prices in town.

This deal will not last forever, so take advantage of it while you can.

Our LCD supplier has partnered with us to offer the best LCD replacement prices in Denver! In fact, this price is much better than most of the overnight repair centers you can find online. We’ll have your 13 inch MacBook LCD replaced within a day of drop-off. Depending on supply, we may even be able to do it while you wait. At RMMR we guarantee the best service and price! This deal won’t last forever, so make you sure get that LCD replaced now instead of putting it off even longer. This rate does not apply to Unibody MacBooks, but we can replace the glass or LCD in those models as well.

Watch the video!

The spot will air sometime tonight during the 10 o’clock news on Denver’s CBS4. There will also be a teaser airing during the evening news. I will link or embed the video file as quickly as I have access to it for you all to watch. We shot about 20 minutes of actually footage, talked for about an hour, and it will all be cropped down to 2.5 minutes of air-time. Here’s to hoping that Josh doesn’t look too nervous or silly. He’s been on TV before, but never an up-close and personal interview. It was a great time, a lot of fun, it’s nice to be recognized for what some people would consider fanboy knowledge Have a great evening, and check back for that web-link… better yet, watch it live on CBS4!

New iPhone icon at the top — we wanted to get the most important info out to you with the greatest ease. Lo’ and behold, there’s room for a phone number at the top. Happy dialing!

Shorter homepage text — one thing most websites do is throw too much information at their readers. Our old homepage was definitely guilty of that. We pulled out the redundant redundancy and left you with a little less filler and better information. We also made our logo clickable so you can see the detail work. If you haven’t guessed yet, the logo is made up of the letters from the new laptop keyboards on an aluminum background. Do you like it?

Certified Macintosh Technician Button — we felt that it was important for you to know that we’re not just some “dude” who fixes iPhones and iPods… we’re Apple-Certified and we keep our certifications up-to-date so you can trust that we know the latest methodologies and techniques for troubleshooting and fixing your devices. We do have to exist as a business for 2 years before Apple will allow us to be an “Apple Authorized Service Provider” so we can perform Apple warranty work. We’re willing to wait, but we’ll help you with upgrades and out-of-warranty work any day of the week.

User Accounts with Facebook Integration — this is a great addition for each and every one of you. You can now comment on posts if you have feedback or questions. If you sign up for an account, we’ll periodically send you emails about great deals and promotions. It will never be spam, only information that pertains to your Apple devices. You do not have to create an account to comment, you can just enter your email or Connect with Facebook to leave a reply. Only those with accounts will be able to use our new comment rating system (it’s just a limitation of Facebook, it’s nothing against you).

Social Sharing — at the bottom of every page you’ll find little bookmarks that will allow you share a post that you find interesting. Email, Facebook, Twitter: we tried to include every sharing possibility, but if we missed some, just let us know and we’ll get it added.

New Footer — We’ve added a new footer to the website to help make it a little more usable. On the left, you’ll see the 5 most recent articles from the blog. In the center we’ve listed links to our sister sites. The right side lists 5 random articles that you may or may not want to read. It’s just a random selection of everything in the archives.

That’s it! We hope that you’ll find these modifications very helpful as you browse our site. We get excited about the little things at Rocky Mountain Mac Repair. We show the same attention to detail in our web design as we do in every repair — it cannot be matched.

If you’re like me, the above picture is driving you crazy.  You’ve done all of the basics to make your albums as organized as possible including cleaning up the titles, correcting genres, and pressing the “Get Album Artwork” button (Secondary click the track or select the whole album… right click, it’s near the bottom) but for one reason or another iTunes won’t apply any artwork to your favorite album.  Maybe it’s something obscure, maybe the artwork database just doesn’t recognize the album title or artist you chose… now what?  Here’s a quick pictorial guide to help you make your albums look beautiful just like their track names. (Yes, I know Monkey Business by the Black Eyed Peas would find the artwork just fine… it’s just an example)

First, make sure that you have done the simple things… Click the “Advanced” menu in iTunes and then make sure you’ve clicked the “Get Album Artwork” button there.  That button will actually search through your entire library and make sure you have artwork for every album.  It isn’t perfect, but it sure beats doing all of this manually like me.  That was 4 years ago before “Get Album Artwork” even existed. Make sure you’re clicking the illustrations if you need a larger example.

You’ll probably still have albums without album art due to variances in titles and tracks. If so, we continue on to the next step. Choose an album… I’ll be doing Black Eyed Peas’ Monkey Business as my example. Open your browser and navigate to Google. Google has a really handy Image search that will be helping us out tremendously. Click the Image button in the top left of the browser window: this will let Google know that we’re only looking for pictures. It should show you the “Google Images” logo now. Go ahead and click in the search field and then type the Artist and the Album, in my case “Black Eyed Peas Monkey Business.” It’ll probably try to guess what you’re searching for as shown in the picture below; it’s okay to go ahead and click one of those if you think it will match. Then click the “Search Images” button.

You should see a whole bunch of pictures for the album you’re trying to fix, but I have a few suggestions you should consider before choosing the first one. You always want to use proportional album art, like 400 x 400. That’s the pixel size of the image. If it’s proportional, it will probably show up just fine in iTunes… if not, you may have white space lining the artwork. So find a picture that’s proportional and click it. This will take you to the website that is sharing that picture. The picture can be difficult to find in the website itself, so I’d suggest clicking the “See full size image” link at the top.

Now you’re staring at the picture that you’d like to apply to your album in iTunes, right? To do that, secondary-click the picture and click “Copy Image.” The image is now stored in the magical clipboard. Go back to iTunes and select all the tracks in your album. You do that by clicking the first track in the album, hold down the shift key on your keyboard and then click the last track in the album. Now that the album is selected, secondary click one of the selected tracks. Choose the “Get Info” option.

At this point, it may ask you if you’re sure you want to edit the information for multiple items, it’s fine… you may even want to check the box that tells it not to bother you with that again. You’re looking at the “Multiple Item Information” window and should see the “Info” tab highlighted. Look to the bottom right of that window, you should find a square box labeled “Artwork.” Click in the box (make sure it has a blue highlight) and then press command+v on the keyboard to paste. This will paste the image we just copied onto your album. You should see a little preview of it in the “Artwork” field now. Click “Okay” and it will apply the image to your album.

If for some reason, you don’t like the image that it applies, just go back to Google, find another image, copy and paste it onto the album again. There’s no limit to how many times you can do that, so feel free to repeat the process until you find a picture that you’ll enjoy as the album artwork. Just repeat these procedures for each missing album cover; I’m sure your iTunes Library will look as great as mine in less time than you think.