Tech Soup

MARCH 22, 2013

Tablet computers: So maybe your iPad isn't a replacement for your desktop or laptop, but the Surface Pro is getting awfully close. Netbooks and ultra light laptops: Sure, they aren't good for serious gamers (at least not yet, although gaming is moving online too), but they are good for most things you do. Your cost: $400.

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Global Giving

MAY 22, 2018

This goes for laptops as well as any servers or databases. Use a password manager (like LastPass or 1Password ) to create complex, dedicated passwords for each website or application that you use. Systems like Google Drive, Box, or DropBox provide convenient, secure solutions for backup and file sharing. Don’t use shared logins.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2017

Slido allows you to crowd source questions from the audience who can use the web site from their mobile phones or laptops in real time. I do have a file with the questions, so I can do an analysis of the questions and think about how to improve my materials. Conference. You can also moderate the questions, but that is a paid feature.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 10, 2017

Creative Cloud is a deeply discounted suite that includes almost everything that Adobe makes: creative design desktop applications, mobile apps, and services for designing anything visual. It's got the latest professional versions of industry standard applications like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Premiere Pro.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 13, 2013

These applications have won awards, shone through rigorous testing, and met our strict standards. Critical personal data is never transmitted, USB flash drives are scanned by default, and when you delete sensitive files, no trace is left behind for snoops. Infected or suspected files are quarantined to minimize the risk.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 3, 2016

As users keep moving their business-critical applications to the cloud, they realize that there is a reduced need to upgrade their systems. Those who work within a nonprofit can benefit from the numerous team collaboration tools, including calendars, video chat, file sharing, and so on.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

There are now 140,000 applications available for the iPhone and most of them are expected to run on the iPad. The device's hardware includes components not currently found in a traditional desktop computer or laptop. It's promised battery life is ten hours -- longer than any laptop to date.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 14, 2017

Cloud-based applications and services are super convenient. For example, you can use SharePoint to host and share files instead of going with a third-party cloud storage provider like Box. Figure out whether you can use a given provider or service while still conforming to applicable laws and regulations. But should you?

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Connection Cafe

JULY 3, 2013

Five years ago, it was the laptop. It doesn’t replace my laptop, but I sure get a lot of use out of it. –Tom The exception to this rule in the nonprofit space tends to be mobile tools for canvassers, volunteers, or major gift officers, who typically use specialized apps or web applications (e.g. a mobile major giving toolset).

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2012

BackupPC : A high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up Linux, Windows, and Mac desktops and laptops to a server's disk. SyncToy : Despite its name, SyncToy is a powerful utility to manage files in different locations, most notably in situations where you would routinely copy files to the same location.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

More than 90 percent of laptop and desktop PCs are running some version of Windows. Clicking on this app checks to make sure your device and applications are compatible and begins the free upgrade to Windows 10. The tutorial goes from downloading the ISO file to doing the installation steps, with good screenshots of the process.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

I have become a complete devotee of Dokuwiki , which I use locally on my laptop, for my to do lists, notes, etc. I love it because it’s really easy to set up and back up (it’s all files, not in a database,) and it’s has draft autosaves (yay!). I am an avid Wiki user. Different enough to drive me crazy.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Now that you've set up your network, you need to keep it safe, and to think about what it can do beyond file sharing and managing your Internet access. VoIP unifies all your organization's telephones, mobile phones, fax machines, and computers through a virtual PBX software application. Keep Your Networks Secure.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

With an auction platform, you can run an in-person, virtual, or hybrid auction easily, and all your guests can bid on the items they want from their smartphones, laptops, and tablets from anywhere in the world. If you invest in the right auction software, running a silent auction becomes a breeze. Board management.

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CauseVox

MAY 12, 2022

Donors are reaching your donation page from a variety of devices, from computers and laptops and tablets and cell phones. Like with recurring donations, their card on file will be automatically charged for each installed payment. We’ve recently added even more easy-to-use customization options to our donation form. Integrations.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 25, 2019

Get your employees set up with an encrypted laptop and make sure they sign into a secure VPN to help protect extremely sensitive IPs. Leverage email and collaboration tools that allow users to securely access office applications and share files using computers and mobile devices. Use secure cloud-based services.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 1, 2015

A recent report from TechSoup found that beyond email and file storage, most nonprofits are reluctant to embrace the cloud for their other organizational needs. These tools and applications are monitored, updated, and maintained by experts who. Applications are typically available from any device anywhere.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

As smartphones mature, we’re doing more on them and less on our laptops. Microsoft with its Surface line of tablets that are a hybrid of laptops and tablets, is working hard to transform tablets from personal entertainment devices to business productivity machines. Tablet adoption is very brisk.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Tablet sales are up 53% while laptop and desktop computers are down 11% from the previous year. This virtual desktop solution connects to a nonprofit or school’s existing computer system very quickly and allows older computers to run Windows 7 and Windows applications as well as new PCs. What this means?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2014

If your existing hardware won't support upgrading, what we’ve been telling folks is that programs like TechSoup’s Refurbished Computer Initiative (RCI) provide warrantied factory refurbished business grade laptop and desktop computers at less than half the cost of new PCs. The free version does not migrate your applications.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

You may think your data isn't desirable, but if you hold fundraising events and have donor data in your files, provide direct services to your community and have client health records or domestic violence shelter rosters, and so on, then your data is desirable by someone. Why It Should Matter to Organizations.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

” With this in mind, and my trusty laptop timer working as a moderator, I will now begin. ” Knowing that these types of things going into your product implementation will go a long way towards crafting an environment where you truly enjoy the capabilities of your application.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The more foundations deploy new and different software applications to support different aspects of foundation operations, the greater is the need for data integration to prevent repositories of data from residing in various siloes across the organization – which causes stakeholder information to be not current, unclean, or incomplete.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Twitter's CEO has learned that short is sweet, flexibility is essential, and applications shoudl work so that people don't have to be at their computer all day long. This post shows you how to jury rig a DIY periscope for your webcam if it is built into your laptop screen. Are you spending too much of your day in your email?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

If you want to keep up with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), check out the wiki. plus two file sharing services sendspace and box.net. These sites are well worth exploring for the richness of learning about the application of emerging technologies and learning. Check out Greenlight Nigeria and Mobile Monitors. Paul Lamb might.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

Working on a personal PC, what are the requirements in terms of applications and standardization? Will there be a strict policy on non-work-related applications and services? And you do not want, obviously, to be having your data and your applications being accessed on an open network that is open to anyone in the vicinity essentially.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

But Windows 8 or versions of it will run on an array of smartphones, laptops, hybrid laptops, desktop computers, and tablet computers. Touch screens are now common on smartphones and tablets of all types, but still relatively rare on desktop PCs, and laptops, but they are expected to become much more common soon. Fremake.com.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Shortly after the Colorectal Cancer Coalition was incorporated as an organization in March 2005 we hired an admin, bought her a laptop and gave her a desk in a tiny single room office sublet from another organization in Washington, DC. With Screen Steps, I can easily edit the file to replace an image or rewrite a step.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Shortly after the Colorectal Cancer Coalition was incorporated as an organization in March 2005 we hired an admin, bought her a laptop and gave her a desk in a tiny single room office sublet from another organization in Washington, DC. With Screen Steps, I can easily edit the file to replace an image or rewrite a step.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Symfony November 6, 2008 In my new explorations of PHP web application development, it seemed a good idea to get a look at both CakePHP and Symfony. I set up both on my laptop, and tried out some really simple app development. Both of them seem to be PHP’s answer to Ruby on Rails. These and other things have the opposite effect.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Installed applications on the host computer appear automatically on all user stations. They can share files, videos, and documents with other people on the WMS network. They can save files in their own private folders where only the user and admin can access them. What Windows MultiPoint Server Can Do.

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 21, 2009

Use it not only to advertise your services, but also to share files with clients, point to resources, clarify your working style/methods/contract, etc. get your files organized: both electronically and paper. Get files to hold all your new categories of information (esp. 2) Get a wiki. use Turbo Tax. do it ASAP. do it ASAP.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Your desktop computers, file server, wireless access point, and a data backup device — if you have one — all connect out from your switch. With a network, five colleagues can read and edit the same document from their own computer, plus you can develop shared folders to store joint resources and back up your files.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Windows MultiPoint Server requires a host computer with 64-bit processor, with sufficient processing power (CPU) and memory capacity to meet the performance demands of the number of simultaneous users and applications used. MultiPoint Server will run 32-bit software applications. Remotely opening and/or closing applications.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Protect your donor, client, and project information across your entire network of "endpoints" (desktops, laptops, and servers) with Symantec's donated enterprise-level security software. Endpoint Protection suites guard against botnets, viruses, worms, Trojan horses, rootkits, spam, and spyware.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

In a recent post , I pointed to some writers on software testing who suggest that users are not the best testers of the applications they are going to use. We've been running a beta version on a few machines for about six months, and just last week I purchased a new laptop for myself with Vista Home Premium installed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

I've packed everything except for my laptop, the wireless router, all seven Avett Brothers CDs, and the beloved coffeemaker. Rather than build our own photo-sharing application, why don???t s big-ticket stories, online applications (like our carbon calculator ), or priority social media presences, I???ll but wouldn???t

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