posted by Colin on 01/09/2012
Hello Western MA! You can vote here for The Valley Advocate's Best of the Valley 2012, and if you've had a good experience with us we would be thrilled and honored if you would consider voting for left-click in the Local Computer Store category (it's in the "Material World" section, a little more than halfway down the page). Our ever-expanding and enthusiastic customer base, including many prominent local businesses, is a testament to our technical proficiency and superior customer service. You can see many of our wonderful customers, including Bueno Y Sano, River Valley Market and Cornucopia Foods, talk about their experiences with us in the video below.
left-click strives to be an active member of the Western Massachusetts community. In the last year we had amazing experiences supporting and participating in the Youth Action Coalition's mural unveiling in Amherst, The Cancer Connection's Trikathlon and PBS WGBY's winter fundraiser. We've supported and raised awareness about The Valley Arts Newsletter and the initiative to move the Pleasant Street Video library to Forbes Library. We also focus our advertising budget on supporting many worthy local organizations, including Northampton and Amherst High Schools, the Hampshire Shakespeare Company, local literary magazine Meat for Tea and the Out for Reel! LGBT Film Series. We also had a total blast with everyone taking green screen photos at the last Twist craft fair!
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posted by Colin on 01/05/2012
You never know what you're going to get when you randomly pick a winner for a raffle, but we couldn't be happier with the winner of our Holiday iPad Raffle. Meet Lisa MacDonald. Lisa is a senior at Northampton High School where she is the Secretary of their chapter of the National Honor Society and president of Model UN. In fact, the list of awesome stuff Lisa does never quite seems to end; she speaks Chinese and has studied Latin, she got her black belt in Taekwondo and she throws shot put and discus, which she will continue to do at Oberlin College in Ohio this fall! Lisa entered our raffle after seeing it in Thornes' email newsletter. She hasn't used an iPad too much, except playing Fruit Ninja on her Mom's. She told us that's the first thing she's going to do on hers, now that she has one, and is also looking forward to seeing how it can be utilized in the classroom this fall.
Thanks again to everyone who entered, and let's all wish Lisa the best of luck in school this fall!
posted by Colin on 12/28/2011
We are very excited to announce the winner of our Holiday iPad Raffle! We're never quite sure what the best, most truly fair way to select a winner for a raffle is. This time around we have employed the services of Mr. Crumbles, the Psychic Kitten, who will pluck the name of the most deserving winner from the depths of the universe using his mystic crystal ball. Take it away, Mr. Crumbles!
posted by Jessie on 12/15/2011
Working in the tech industry, and specifically being in the business of servicing Windows computers as well as Macs, one of the most common problems I see is this: viruses. Countless times the same scene plays out: a frazzled-looking PC user comes in, holding their laptop or desktop, and tells the sad tale of how they were using their computer when, suddenly, they were infected. This can come in many forms: endless pop-ups, fake anti-virus software telling them they need to run a “free scan”, regular program use stopped by crashing, all leading to the computer becoming slow or unusable. Sometimes, I see the same people come back again and again, with the same issue. Read on to learn how to avoid it.
posted by Colin on 12/07/2011
I wanted to write a quick blog post about my recent quest to find the best method of streaming content from the internet on my television set. (This is not a product review, as I have not yet acquired the device I eventually settled on.) First of all, let's talk about my needs- I'm interested in streaming content, not playing local files. This is the biggest distinction you can make when shopping for an internet-enabled device for your television. What that means, in basic terms, is that I'm looking to stream content like Netflix or Pandora, rather than downloading full audio or video files to a local device (like my computer) and playing those files. After shopping around online and consulting with some of my tech-savvy friends, I'm confident that I found the best internet to television device for my needs.
posted by Colin on 12/06/2011
We have an ad currently running in the mighty Valley Arts Newsletter. The Valley Arts Newsletter is a Pioneer Valley focused email newsletter that provides a staggeringly comprehensive list of all arts events happening in our fine valley on a weekly basis. The compilation of all these events must be an exhausting process, and we are happy to support this valuable resource! See our ad in action on this week's newsletter!
posted by Colin on 11/30/2011
left-click is looking to make the holiday season even more joyous for one lucky person by holding a free iPad 2 raffle! The contest runs now through December 24th, and all you need to do is enter your name and email address into the form on this page. Make sure to follow us on our Facebook, Twitter and Google+ pages, because we’ll be announcing the winners there before contacting them by email!
posted by Colin on 11/15/2011
Ice Cream in The Underworld with a Pair O' Dice City Roller!
We spent last weekend at the awesome Twist Fair, a twice annual alternative craft fair here in Northampton, MA. We set up a green screen, handed people some goofy props and took their pictures as they entered the fair. We then dropped them into The Underworld, shot them to The Moon or sent them to the Beach, and uploaded the photos to Facebook throughout the day. It was a total blast! Huge thanks to Twist for partying with us, and thanks to the Pair O' Dice City Rollers for roping people into the booth and posing with them!
You can see all the photos in this Facebook album, or hit "Read More" to see some of our favorites!
posted by Colin on 11/10/2011
We've been working on something for this weekend's Twist Fair 7 that we're really excited about! Shoppers who stop at our table will be able to get their picture taken in one of three glorious locales; The Moon, The Beach or The Underworld. Although we tried to figure out the logistics, we will not actually be able to bring the moon, the beach or the underworld to Twist, so we're dong the next best thing: bringing a green screen and dropping in the backgrounds later. In addition, we'll have a bunch of goofy props and you'll even be able to have a roller derby girl from the Pair O' Dice City Rollers pose with you! This is our second year participating in Twist, Northampton's twice-annual alternative craft fair, and we can't wait to see everyone there!
You can see The Moon above, hit "Red More" to see The Beach and The Underworld!
posted by Colin on 10/13/2011
We're not sure who the anonymous computer expert in this video is, but he sure does seem knowledgeable!
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