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AT&T Turns on LTE service in Denver

We’ve heard whispers of AT&T bringing LTE service to Denver by the year’s end, but we were beginning to get skeptical. The rumor weeds started growing again this past week — some people saying that it would happen as early as this weekend. It happened even sooner than that! If you have an iPhone 5 [...]

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The MacBook Pro (Retina) is and will always be expensive

We’ve read many differing opinions about the Retina MacBook Pro that Apple introduced recently. Most people say it’s totally worth it, other repair companies say that it’s a huge step backwards. We have to chime in because we think that everyone is missing the point. John Gruber (an Apple enthusiast) says that only third party repair companies are being [...]

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What happens when IP addresses disappear?

Last week, the last of the IPv4 addresses were given out to the companies who actually purchase them — Comcast, IBM, etc. This may not mean much to you right now but that’s actually a big deal in the world of the internet. Let’s step back and take a look at why IP addresses are [...]

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Google Voice now porting numbers

Google Voice is a great product that allows you to use a secondary telephone number and forward it to your current phone. It transcribes voicemails, emails you if you miss a call, works for text messaging (not MMS) and allows you to place calls from your computer for free! Starting a Small Business? Just grab [...]

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Dead hard drive? Here are some options.

It’s the Friday night before your term paper is due and you’re planning to do nothing but edit all weekend. You say goodbye to your friends, hunker down with a warm cup of coffee and press the power button on your Mac. To your dismay, the computer does nothing but sit at the Apple logo [...]

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iPhone 4 Jailbreak and Unlock now available.

Last Sunday, the Dev-Team released software that will allow you to easily jailbreak any device running iOS4 with jailbreakme.com. It uses a browser-based installation method that is the easiest jailbreak we’ve ever seen. Dev-Team member Comex designed the exploit using an unknown exploit. In order to jailbreak your iDevice, he sends a PDF with a [...]

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Look before you post… an iPhone 4 update ***Updated***

Before playing with the new iPhone, we were unsure about it’s purchasability at this point: there were rumors of screen defects and reception issues. Well, we’re writing this post from the Cherry Creek Apple Store sitting right next to the iPhones… and we can’t replicate the reception issues. Most of the information that you’ll find [...]

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Premature iPhone 4′s having issues: look before you leap

If you’ve been paying any attention to the iPhone 4 news as of late, you’d know that a lot of people ended up getting their iPhone a wee bit early. Obviously, some of the bigger reviewers like Walt Mossberg, Joshua Topolsky and more have been putting it through the paces. They like them a lot. [...]

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Is iPhone 4 unbreakable?

Repair shops like Rocky Mountain Mac Repair have been waiting anxiously for any reference to the repair options for the next generation iPhone. In it’s Monday address to attendees of the WWDC (Worldwide Developer Conference) Apple gave us our first look at what they’ve coined “iPhone 4.” It looks to be an amazing device. iPhone [...]

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Watch RMMR on YouTube

In an effort to bring you more content and helpful information, we’ve created a YouTube channel where we’ll host all of our videos and embed them here. We’re starting off the video frenzy with our iPad interview from January. We were lucky enough to be chosen by CBS 4 Denver to explain why the iPad [...]

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