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Google Apps is Reliable and They Want to Prove It

Google Apps is our favorite cloud-based email, calendar, contacts, documents (and more) solution for anyone from single users to large businesses.  We’ve been helping businesses and nonprofits ditch their expensive mail servers or unreliable POP email hosting and switch to professional, reliable, business-class email for years.  Of course we run Google Apps here at Computer...
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Published on: Sep 28th, 2011

Make Malwarebytes and Microsoft Security Essentials Play Well Together in Windows XP

At Computer Courage, our favorite virus protection is the combination of Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) and MalwareBytes AntiMalware (MBAM).  While no antivirus solution is perfect, this combination provides excellent virus protection, does not hog system resources, and takes it easy on your wallet.  Microsoft Security Essentials is free, and MBAM’s paid edition is $25 for...
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Published on: Sep 21st, 2011

Google Reminds Us Of Why Google Apps is Great

The Official Google Enterprise Blog has released a thorough recap of all of the amazing benefits and features of Gmail and Google Calendar for Business.  At Computer Courage, we use Google Apps on a daily basis – it sits patiently in the cloud allowing us to perform powerful email and calendaring tasks.  Google’s list of...
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Published on: Jul 19th, 2011

No More Mozy Unlimited

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...
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Published on: Feb 1st, 2011

We Were Voted Number 1 in Computer Services in the East Bay by the San Francisco Chronicle’s SFGate.com!

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....
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Published on: Jul 24th, 2010

Vote for us at SFGate.com!

Computer Courage is up for the “Best of BayList” contest at SFGate.com.  We’re going for “Best Computer Services”. It’s super easy to vote for us (just a quick 1 page registration), just go to our voting page here and click “VOTE”.  That’s it! Thanks for your support – please vote for us today! -Adam and the...
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Published on: Mar 29th, 2010

How To Replace AVG Free Antivirus with Microsoft Security Essentials

Computer Courage has been recommending AVG Free Anvitivirus for years, but alas the times have changed.  We are crowning a new king of the free consumer antivirus world, and it comes from Microsoft (of all companies).  Computer Courage now recommends Microsoft Security Essentials for most home users.  It’s free, fast, and very effective.  If you...
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Published on: Feb 11th, 2010