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5 Times Foundations Cause More Problems Than They Solve

NonProfit Hub

But all too often, foundations, corporate grantmakers, and donors end up unintentionally causing problems instead of helping to solve them. Here are five common ways foundations cause more problems than they solve: Providing short-term funding for a long-term outcome. Hiding board members who could do more. .

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Setting up my new Thinkpad T400S

Robert Weiner

The big problem turned out to be that I had encrypted my data on my current computer. Laplink's software didn't warn that this might be a problem, and none of the the technicians I wound up chatting with suggested that it might be. Unencrypting the data on the old computer and running the transfer again solved that problem. (NB:

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This is becoming crucially important as the problem of delivering access to text is increasingly solved by the move to ebook publishing and solutions like our Bookshare library. Of course, just as we're solving the text problem, more and more content is moving to richer, more visual forms like graphics, simulations and flash!

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iPad: strange redirect bugs?

Judi Sohn

I had her bring it over to me, and sure enough, click "iTunes" and it flashes for a second and switches over to App Store, using the same animated motion as I see on my iOS 4 iPhone when you use fast app switching. I shut down the iPad completely and restarted. In an effort to avoid restoring the device, I hit the internet.

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A Month with the Palm Pre

Robert Weiner

My major problem with the Pre is due to its lack of a built-in sync with a standalone/desktop copy of Outlook. If you don't use Outlook, or use it on an Exchange server, you might not have these problems. I'm told that syncing wouldn't be a problem if I was using MS Exchange instead of a desktop installation of Outlook.

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The iPad will probably be a great device. Someday.

Judi Sohn

The lack of Flash is a problem no matter how Apple spins it. Mom doesn't know or care that it's Flash that's making her favorite websites do what they do. She doesn't care it's the reason for most of her computer problems. Apple is being stubborn when it comes to their desire to kill Flash, and they've done this before.

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The continuing saga of the new T400S

Robert Weiner

Some of the hardest problems have been getting Adobe products to install. I solved that by following the instructions for solving Error # 0 problems at [link] Now I have a second program ( Microsoft Installer Cleanup utility) to forcibly uninstall uncooperative software. I also couldn't get Adobe Flash to install. That did it.

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