Tech Soup Blog

APRIL 8, 2015

Laptops are about four or five times more energy efficient than desktop computers. A laptop computer typically uses 30 to 40 watts of electricity during moderate use. Laptops also have low-energy modes to save on battery usage and energy. If you don't need a big desktop computer, make your next computer purchase a laptop.

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Tech Soup Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

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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Tech Soup Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Donor partner Blackbaud has generously donated the T410 laptop, refurbished by partner InterConnection. Not only does the T410 laptop include enhanced productivity and security, the 14.1-inch Lenovo ThinkPad T410. inch backlit widescreen LED display consumes less power while offering brighter colors, making it easy to go green.

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Nonprofit AF

MAY 3, 2021

Hi everyone, sorry this post is a day late (my laptop updated at the most inconvenient time last night and.

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Tech Soup Blog

JUNE 20, 2011

I got to talking last week with Kiera Butler of Mother Jones magazine about the best ways to keep the rechargeable batteries in laptops and mobile phones healthy and long-lived. Dell says that a full life span for a garden-variety lithium-ion laptop battery is 18 to 24 months.

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NTEN

MARCH 4, 2011

I was trying to count the number of laptop models for sale at Best Buy, all the while avoiding the glance of any of the eleven sales associates (AKA "Blue Shirts") that hovered around the computer displays. That's how many different laptops there were on display at my local Best Buy (not counting the Pommes de Cher ).

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Tech Soup Blog

MARCH 29, 2022

Over that time, we've distributed over 160,000 refurbished devices, including desktop computers, laptops, LCD monitors, printers, smartphones, and tablets. Note: This post has been updated for 2022. TechSoup's Refurbished Hardware Program has been going strong since 2006.

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Tech Soup Blog

MARCH 30, 2015

Interested in winning a free refurbished laptop or tablet? Dell Core Windows 7 Laptop from InterConnection. HP EliteBook 8440p Core i5 Windows 7 Laptop from PCRR. Both laptops come preloaded with Microsoft Office 2010, a Windows operating system, and Microsoft Security Essentials. Are you … A U.S. iPad 2 from CDI.

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Tech Soup Blog

MARCH 30, 2015

Interested in winning a free refurbished laptop or tablet? Dell Core Windows 7 Laptop from InterConnection. HP EliteBook 8440p Core i5 Windows 7 Laptop from PCRR. Both laptops come preloaded with Microsoft Office 2010, a Windows operating system, and Microsoft Security Essentials. Are you … A U.S. iPad 2 from CDI.

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Tech Soup Blog

MAY 27, 2010

Climate Savers Computing reports that laptops typically consume less power than desktops and are usually powerful enough for most users. The most surprising thing for me was that even when turned OFF, the average laptop still consumed nearly nine watts of energy.

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Tech Soup Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

By following these tips, you should get more hours out of each charge of your laptop battery and save electricity to boot: Close unused applications or software programs. The information to run the programs is stored in memory, which requires energy to keep active. If you're not using it, close it! Turn down the brightness of your monitor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2006

Via Snazzzz 's post in live journal comes the story of the $3 laptop. Inspired by MIT's $100 laptop project, they've been working on their own educational laptop project and delivered their first working model to Saron, a banking and finance student living in a small village near Prek Eng. They had it fixed.

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DonorPerfect

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Put yourself in your donors’ shoes for a second, and think of a recent purchase or donation you made on your mobile phone, tablet, or laptop. Did you have to enter your card information manually? Did it take you longer than a minute to check out? Did you abandon your purchase altogether? What held you Read More ».

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2023

These figures continue to rise, indicating a shift from e-commerce on a desktop or laptop computer to purchases made on tablets and smartphones (devices capable of receiving text messages). In 2022 in the United States alone, mobile e-commerce (purchases made on a mobile device) surpassed 387 billion U.S.

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Tech Soup Blog

MAY 20, 2021

You've got laptops, desktops, monitors, printers, and phones. How do you keep track of all the technology tools your organization uses? As an exercise, just try to list them. Maybe you've got servers and a Wi-Fi router.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

During this time, you can donate the revolutionary XO laptop to a child in a developing nation, and also receive one for the child in your life in recognition of your contribution. Between November 12 and November 26, OLPC is offering a Give One Get One program in the United States and Canada.

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Tech Soup Blog

APRIL 19, 2010

We're giving away two refurbished laptops to subscribers of our By the Cup (BTC) newsletter. The laptops we're giving away to two lucky winners are very similar to those available to nonprofits and libraries through our RCI program. Both laptops are refurbished Dell Pentium M D610 notebooks with 1.86

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 4, 2022

This way, people from all around the world could suddenly “attend” through their laptops. At the height of the pandemic, this was the only viable option for most nonprofits, with many organizations opting to livestream their events. 3) Hybrid fundraisers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

Almost exactly two years ago, the One Laptop Per Child launched. So, the Sharing Foundation has continued to use our method of getting donated laptops in the US, refurbishing them, and getting them to Cambodia. DC Metblogger Flickr Photo. I blogged it and was initially very excited! Tharum was disappointed too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2008

I met Betsy Weber, TechSmith Evangelist, at SXSW and she gave me a Jing Project sticker for my laptop! Thanks Betsy.

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Tech Soup Blog

JUNE 6, 2022

We have gathered some of the great hardware options available through TechSoup, covering computers and laptops, networking solutions, printers, and mobile hotspots. But hardware can also be a pressure on budgets, as it is an unavoidable — and sometimes very high — operating cost.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 11, 2023

The top giving level of $2,500 dollars covered a laptop, travel expenses, school supplies, and more for students entering college. In the case of Minds Matter Southern California, the form’s different giving levels were geared toward helping students prepare for college. What you can do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2008

I love laptop stickers! Photo from Ian Kennedy. I met Ian Kennedy who is the product manager at MyBlogLog, a blogger social network. Here's a summary of his talk at GSP and video. MyBlogLog recently implemented a new feature called " activity streams."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2005

Why do people put stickers on their laptops? So I only saw six examples of this - bumper stickers on laptops. So you can easily figure out which laptop is yours. Why do you put stickers on your laptop? Stickers Originally uploaded by cambodia4kidsorg. I was only here for the last day. Here's the set.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

A lengthy article in the Wall Street Journal highlights the effect that the One Laptop per Child Initiative has had on the pc industry. The result is that low-cost laptops are being sold to schools in many developing countries today, but surprisingly few are OLPC units.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Including stickers your recipients can put on their laptops, mugs, or around their house. To help your direct mail efforts stand out even more, consider adding personal touches. This might look like: . Adding unique rubber stamps . Writing a personal note or including one from a constituent your nonprofit helped. Signing the letter by hand .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 22, 2012

Do you attempt to create one website that looks good on desktops and laptops, tablets, Internet TVs, and smartphones using responsive Web design – or have multiple websites to accommodate viewing on different devices? Bigger pictures, less text, larger fonts, and easy-to-tap and click buttons and navigation are the new Web design aesthetic.

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TechImpact

MARCH 28, 2014

Smart phones, tablets, laptop computers, and desktop computers are synonymous with work. Now, it’s the sound of computer fans revving up and our operating system beeping on that has has us cringing some mornings. There’s no denying the fact that technology has changed the way Americans work.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 29, 2007

Stu Leigh of Real World Productions sent me a link the this video, in which Hakon Wium Lie, the CTO of Opera Software, demonstrates the hardware for the new OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) initiaitve. It's pretty impressive. Opera , if you didn't know, is providing the web browser for the OLPC effort.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2010

Congrats to Megha Bhagat , Winner of HP Laptop/Printer Bundle Contest that I ran on my blog last month. To enter the contest, readers had to share their " Theory of Change." Megha is a passionate human rights advocate in India and also lawyer. Her blog is here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2020

I write up a list of what I need to do the next day and then shut down my laptop and put it away, out of site. Having a ritual that lets you make the pivot work to home life can help. My ritual is to have an alarm go off at the end of my workday. It is my 15 minute warning bell. This signals that it now time to shift into family time.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 10, 2021

Their findings concluded that this was in large part due to CEOs and boards reporting higher productivity as their staff worked through the pandemic from their laptops. . This is compared with just 10% pre-pandemic. Just under 50% stated that productivity had grown whilst remote working, with certain sectors doing better than others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

I have this plug for my laptop which can handle 240 V. So, my question is whether or not my laptop will play nice with UK LCD projector or what they area called "digital slide projector." Just thinking outloud, thinking allowed. MUST GET TO WORK.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2005

WSIS 2005: $100 laptop Originally uploaded by BillT. Here are some links from various listserv discussions and blog posts when the laptop was announced here in Boston last month. Here's a photo from WSIS flickr stream. Andy Carvin, who is doing an incredible job of reporting from WSIS, made a 8 minute documentary.

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DipJar

AUGUST 9, 2022

Laptops and hotspots were offered. More power stations and a laptop bar. In response to Covid, the library had to adapt. It shifted to curbside pickup, provided take-home craft bags for family fun, and increased the number of digital services offered. Curtis found ways to provide valuable services to its communities. The solution?

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Forum One

MARCH 16, 2022

Smartphone ownership is almost ubiquitous in the United States: 85% of Americans own a smartphone, compared to 77% who own a desktop or laptop computer ( Pew Research Center, 2021 ), 48% of US adults ages 18–29 say they are almost constantly online ( Pew Research Center, 2022 ), and on average, Americans spend 4.2

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

In-person participants will need to bring their own laptops). In addition to the main screen in your conference room, you can also set up laptops with their video and audio at a seat at the table. This can be handled with in-room buddies and having everyone bring their laptop to the meeting and use Zoom breakout rooms.

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