Connecting Point closes just five days a year – and this coming Sunday is one of them.
Since our Bend location isn’t open Sundays, this announcement applies only to our Medford store. Enjoy the weekend, and we’ll see you Monday!
SERVICE BULLETIN: Our Medford location had a mysterious, destructive power outage and surge over the weekend. One casualty was our mail server, which suffered a fried logic board. This server provides email service for both our Bend and Medford locations. As a result, we’ve been unable to send or receive email at any of our “.connpoint.com” addresses.
We’ve got a replacement logic board coming in via overnight freight, and we hope to be up and running again later today (Tuesday). In the meantime, you can reach us via the email form on our Contact page.
Sorry for any inconvenience, and thanks for your patience.
UPDATE APRIL 15, 2014 | 11:55 AM: Our mail server has been repaired, and email service has been restored.
The ashland independent film festival is five days of the highest-quality independent film, held in historic Ashland, Oregon. The Washington Post called it “a dream you’ll never want to leave.” Every Spring, Southern Oregon buzzes with the excitement of the aiff. Over 7000 film lovers gather at the historic art-deco Varsity Theatre, in the heart of downtown Ashland, to watch over 80 films in five days.
This year’s guests include Emmy-winning actor Ty Burrell (Modern Family) and two-time Oscar-winning filmmaker Barbara Kopple (Harlan County USA, American Dream).
Filmmakers of documentaries, features and shorts from around the world come to engage with the audience after each screening, and at the festival’s Opening Night Bash and Award Celebration parties with local wine, beer and artisan food. Special guests have included Helen Hunt, Albert Maysles, Bruce Campbell and more. This year’s guests include Emmy-winning actor Ty Burrell (Modern Family) and two-time Oscar-winning filmmaker Barbara Kopple (Harlan County USA, American Dream). The film festival is one of the reasons Ashland is included in the popular travel guide A Thousand Places to See Before You Die.
Connecting Point returns for its second year as a sponsor, providing iMac computers and a wireless printer for the festival’s Hospitality Suite. We urge you to support the thriving arts community in our area. Visit the aiff website to see the rich variety of films being presented at this year’s festival. Better still, pick up some tickets and celebrate independent cinema with like-minded folks in Ashland! It all kicks off this Thursday, and runs through Monday.
Don’t be an April Fool. Be prepared: Back up your files today, March 31st – World Backup Day.
Take a moment to imagine what it would be like if everything on your computer, tablet, or phone went away – permanently disappeared – 30 seconds from now. This is not some rare nightmare scenario. Devices are manmade, and things made by the hand of man must someday fail. It is known.
In other words, it’s not a question of “if.” It’s a question of “when.” And when it does happen, how badly would it hurt you?
Take a moment to imagine what it would be like if everything on your computer, tablet, or phone went away – permanently disappeared – 30 seconds from now.
Fortunately, there are simple, sensible steps you can take to make this a total non-issue. If you have a Mac, you have an app called Time Machine that makes keeping a current, local backup of your computer easy as pie. Windows 8.1 comes with a similar program called File History. In both cases, you’ll need an external hard drive dedicated to the task. Connecting Point can help you select the perfect external drive to fit your system and budget, with prices starting well under $100.
But to really, truly protect your photos, home videos, music, emails, and documents, you’ll want to supplement this local backup with an off-site one. As it happens, we offer a safe, affordable, and simple solution: SafeBox Automated Online Backup. For less than seven dollars a month, your important stuff is seamlessly, continuously backed up over broadband connection to a secure, remote location. Fires, floods, and wayward pets cannot touch your precious information.You can read all about SafeBox here.
So visit the World Backup Day site. Take the pledge. And sleep easier tonight, knowing your data is safe.
Our ever-popular Deal of the Week is on Spring Break this week. Look for the cavalcade of bargains to resume soon.
If you have a device that charges through a USB connection, you no doubt already have an AC charger for it.
But it might be nice to have a backup. One you can leave in the garage, or at the office, or in your totally-not-scary cabin in the woods. This week’s DOTW fits the bill nicely: Sturdy, compact, with a nifty collapsible AC plug that folds into the charger’s body.
Also, it comes in a Zune box. So, you know, nostalgia.
But its external packaging in no way affects the performance of the device within. This charger is world-ready, able to adapt on the fly to voltages from 100 to 240, and cycles from 47 to 63 Hertz. And it pumps out a respectable 5 volts / 1 ampere of juice.
To learn more about our latest Deal of the Week, click here.
Happy π* day, everyone! In honor of this hallowed event, we offer 3.14 reasons why you should be excited about this week’s DOTW:
To find out all about our latest Deal of the Week, click here.
*In case your browser fails to properly display this symbol, it’s the one for Pi.
The quality of the recording is far from great (it’s a VHS transfer), but the content is pure gold…
Connecting Point introduced the Apple IIc to a lot of folks, back in the day. Its iconic design was innovative for the time, and doesn’t receive a lot of recognition these days.
