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A strange and sociologically meaningless online exercise just caught my attention, and I wanted to share it with all of you. This is of course based on the game “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.” In Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, the player is challenged to come up with an actor, then link that actor to...
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As many of you loyal readers know, Computer Courage has been a strong proponent of AVG Antivirus for some time. AVG has taken a novel approach to competing with the big guns of Norton and McAfee by offering a home version of their product absolutely free, and hoping to gain publicity and popularity amongst the...
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Mozilla, makers of our favorite browser Mozilla Firefox, are releasing the much anticipated version 3 today.And, they are doing it in style.Mozilla plans to set a worldwide download record today by having millions of people from all over the world download the version today, June 17th, 2008. Remember that we showed you guys a sneak...
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Finals Days of Windows XP This month’s article is short and sweet – but ever so important.As many of you know from our previous articles, we at Computer Courage prefer Windows XP to the newer and slower Windows Vista.Due to the general unpopularity of Windows Vista, Microsoft has been extending the shelf life of Windows...
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Those of you who have used our services, or read our blogs, know that we prefer Mozilla Firefox over Microsoft Internet Explorer. Since before version 1.0, Firefox has been easier to use, safer, and more feature-rich than IE. The rest of the world is slowly realizing this, as Firefox’s share of the marketplace has been...
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Computer technology is said to double in speed and capacity every two years (a phenomenon called Moore’s Law.)If our computers are doubling in speed every two years, why is it that we find ourselves waiting for computers to respond every day?Why does it sometimes take 5 minutes just to open our email?In this month’s article,...
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One of the most common questions we get from our users is about antivirus.Just about everyone today is frustrated with their security software.Some antivirus solutions slow down the computer too much, or others leave out important areas of protection.Today we’re going to pass some advice, explanations, and a few simple recommendations.Remember, if you want personalized...
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New Systems, New Decisions:A Roadmap to Vista and Leopard In the last several months, we have seen the release of two very highly anticipated operating systems – Microsoft’s Windows Vista and Apple’s OS X 10.5 (Leopard.)Now that the hoopla has died down a bit, many of our customers are wondering, and asking us – should...
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Welcome to the new Computer Courage blog. The big nerds computer enthusiasts here at Computer Courage are opening up our thoughts, findings, and ideas to you, our faithful readers. We plan to make this into a resource, a source of entertainment, and sometimes just a place to share our thoughts. If you have ideas, questions,...
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