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How to Reuse Old Laptops with Windows MultiPoint Server

Tech Soup

Do you have an old laptop lying around that you're not sure what to do with? Windows MultiPoint Server lets you turn that old laptop into a fully functioning Windows user station – even if the old machine isn't actually up-to-date enough to run current versions of Windows or other software. How does this magic happen?

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10 Tips For #GivingTuesday Donation Form Optimization

TechImpact

According to a 2011 Cygnus survey , 65% of nonprofit require their online donor to click 3 or more time to give to their nonprofit. More and more web traffic is transitioning from laptop / desktop traffic to mobile devices. One step, not two. Chances are good it’s more than 3. Mobile, mobile, mobile. Offer giving suggestions.

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What IPv6 means to you

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Right now, most people in the US own at least 2 or 3 devices that need an IP address – your computer, your laptop, your phone, your tablet, your cable box, etc. June 8, 2011, is being called “ World IPv6 Day.&#. We’ve known for years (since the 80′s) that we’d run out of IPv4 addresses sooner or later.

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My Life Below the Fold

NetWits

Two-finger scrolling on laptop track-pads has become a standard feature. Scrolling has become so normal that Apple removed the scrollbar as a default interface element in OSX in 2011. Modern devices for interacting with the web have embraced scrolling – modern mice have either a scroll wheel or touch-based scrolling.

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Is the Used Computer Market Going Away?

Tech Soup

The post-PC era was announced in March 2011 by the late Apple founder and CEO, Steve Jobs, during the launch of the iPad2. The post-PC world was inadvertently ratified by HP when it made a dramatic announcement in August 2011 about trying to get out of the PC hardware business. Order volumes have increased 25 percent in 2011.

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Does the Used IT Market Have a Future?

Tech Soup

This is an update of a TechSoup article we posted online in November 2011. During the intervening two years, we have entered the “post-PC” era in which laptop and desktop computers are being superseded by tablets, phones and other mobile devices. And indeed sales of new PCs and laptops are declining.

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What's This: Livestreaming

NTEN

[Editor's note: The following is from the December 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. Your source can be as simple as a mini-dv digital camcorder, or even a webcam that you can connect to a laptop via USB. Read the complete issue by subscribing to the journal for free! It is surprisingly simple and affordable.

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