Computer Courage will be sharing our wealth of knowledge with the people this Sunday, October 19th, from 10am to 5pm at the Spice of Life Festival in Berkeley. This is our first festival, so we’re coming out swinging. We’ve got free snacks and free computer advice - come ask us about anything and we’ll help you out, free of charge. See Adam, “the Davids”, and maybe even a few of our design staff idling about by the booth, which is rumored to be near the Cheese Board. We’ve got the booth courtesy of our good friends and building-mates LMI.net, Berkeley’s own internet service provider.
If you can’t make it, and have a computer questions, just contact us and I’ll probably just answer it for you.
At Computer Courage, we help a lot of customers recover data and passwords, remove viruses and spyware, and restore computer systems. One thing we can’t help you with, however, is stolen identity and/or stolen funds. The modern age of computing has brought us many conveniences – I pay almost all of my bills online. Along with those conveniences come new responsibilities and risks, and having seen the worst of these risks, I’d like to devote this newsletter to helping our readers understand the risk of a dangerous technique called Phishing.
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As most of you know, we at Computer Courage are quite fond of our iPhones and the applications that can be downloaded for the iPhone. We’re currently using a slew of new applications such as WootWatch, Facebook 2.0, Sportacular, and FlyCast (listen to radio over WiFi or cellular network - very cool!)
Barack Obama says he represents a new set of ideas for America - that’s something we’re all pretty excited about. Watching the politicians, particularly Senators Obama and McCains, from a technonological perspective has also been interesting. Issues like net neutrality (learn about it here) are never going to make the TV debates, but they affect all of us and the presidential hopefulls have very different views. See this article by tech crunch for an overview.
Views aside, Obama just pushed the envelope with a new iPhone app that lets you take part in his campaign. This is pretty impressive. It encourages you to help out directly by donating (it helps you call a hotline, doesn’t let you enter your payment directly) and calling friends to pitch your option. It even goes so far as to prioritize your address book so you can call friends in battleground states first - very smart. Additionally, the application will allow you to see pictures and videos, read articles, receive updates, and do research on the issues. Naturally, the application is free for all iPhone users.
We highly recommend everyone check out this app - if you don’t have an iPhone or iPod Touch, you can head over to www.barackobama.com to get a lot of the same content (and maybe make a donation?)
