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Mobile for Good: Earth Month Edition

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11,000 were laptops. eCycle Best concluded that American consumers seem to be getting wiser about throwing away phones, tablets, and laptops. I always love new camera apps so it was exciting to hear that Google just launched its own in the Play Store. Images: iFixit. Of these devices: 21,000 were smartphones.

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Cryptography 101: How to Lock Down Your Data

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A few weeks ago, the San Francisco Public Library hosted an event with the Electronic Frontier Foundation , a nonprofit dedicated to fighting for citizen digital rights. You can use OTR with existing chat services, such as Facebook Chat or GChat (Google). Loss of valuable hardware aside, your laptop is full of confidential data.

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Making Mobile Devices and Computers Easier to Use for Seniors — Part 2 — Text and Icon Enhancements

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All images in the piece are courtesy of CTN as well. We hope that the following how-to directions will be useful for nonprofits and libraries to help their constituents and patrons see text and images on their screens more clearly. If the senior is using a laptop, the Fn key may also be required in the key-press combination.

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Mobile for Good: May Edition

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June is generally a very busy month for mobile with Google I/O, Apple's WWDC, and lots of summer phone/tablet releases. There has been some interesting mobile-related legislation news as of late that affects some nonprofits, charities, public libraries, and social sector organizations. Legislation Beat. Tablet Tales.

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New Release: FluidSurveys 5.0 at TechSoup! Improving How Questions Get Answered

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reveals a host of smart new features that our nonprofit, charity, and library members will all find more useful. Let's back up a minute first and discuss what surveying can mean for the nonprofit and public library sector. Your survey resizes automatically to adjust to desktop, laptop, tablet, or smartphone screen dimensions.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

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Tablet sales are up 53% while laptop and desktop computers are down 11% from the previous year. For instance, this past year Google released a web-based Device Manager that allows you to locate, ring at full volume, and wipe data from an Android device. I’d also modestly recommend our Cloud Basics for Nonprofits and Libraries.

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The Tech That Will Change 2016

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But with so many charities and libraries working with children, the weird new security threat in 2016 will be smart toys. When major tech players and platforms like Google, Salesforce, Facebook, PayPal, Kickstarter, etc. Image 1: TechSoup. Image 2 : kpgolfpro / CCO. Image 3 : Roman Magician / CC BY-NC.

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