(Update) – We received new pics of the students with the laptops, skip to the bottom to see them.
In the wake of the devastating earthquake in Haiti last year, over one million people in Haiti are homeless. In the face of tragedy, some brave people like Serena Clayton from the California School Health Centers Association (a client of ours) manage to step up and make a difference.
Serena approached us a few weeks ago to ask if we could help refurbish some donated laptops (PC and Mac) so she could personally deliver them to a needy school in Haiti (one of her many volunteer trips to the country). We proudly refurbished 5 laptops for the school to use, complete with fresh installations of the operating system, antivirus, and various free tools for the kids and teachers to use.
You can read more about the school (Kenscoff Heart of Worship School), the teacher (Robenson Cesar) and Serena’s experiences in Haiti here.
Update: Here are the new pics of the kids with the laptops:
Computer Courage has moved! After two and a half years at our Martin Luther King address, we have moved to a larger, beautiful, more accessible space.
You can find us at
2093 Rose Street
Berkeley, CA 94709
Come by and see our new location, pick up a free mousepad, or drop your computer off for repair!
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Did you know that Computer Courage offers data recovery services right here in Berkeley, California? If you need to recover data from a computer, laptop, hard drive, camera, flash drive, or most any other device, we are available to help immediately. Our local Bay Area customers don’t have to ship their drives off in the mail, you can just bring it by our office and we’ll diagnose it for you.
Our data recovery services cost from $50 (easy fixes) to $150 (our full price for data recovery). We’ve saved all sorts of valuable data for our customers from family pictures to critical business documents. If we can’t save your data, we can refer you to a “clean room” specialist company like DriveSavers, with a special Computer Courage discount (you’ll need that discount, as clean room recovery starts at around $750 but can get data even we can’t).
Give us a call, send an email to info@computercourage.com, or come on by our Berkeley office for all your data recovery needs.
Sadly, one of our favorite online backup services, Mozy.com, has dropped their unlimited plan.
Mozy was one of the first giants in the game of online backup, and the first one that Computer Courage strongly recommended. Over the years, their prices have gone up, and their service has failed to evolve with the competition.
If you’re looking for a new backup service, we highly recommend CrashPlan. These guys provide an excellent modern approach to backup with free options for backing up locally to a hard drive, paid options for backing up online (including an unlimited option), advanced email reporting, versions (like Time Machine), and more. Check it out and let us know if you want help setting it up.
Computer Courage is proud to announce that we were ranked the number one “Computer Services” company in the East Bay and the number four company in the whole Bay Area in SFGate.com’s “Best of the Bay List“.
See the results page here. The top 3 companies are all San Francisco based, as you can see.
This list is completely vote-based, which means you guys made this happen!
Computer Courage has always been dedicated to providing outstanding customer service. That’s what got us our great yelp reviews. I’d like to thank everyone who voted for us and express our humility and appreciation. Word of mouth has always been critical to our success. Thank you!
