Tech Soup

MAY 10, 2016

Consumer Reports does great reliability surveys on laptop fail rates. New Apple laptops have fail rates from 7 to 9 percent each year. Most new laptops from the other big computer makers have fail rates in the 15 percent range. Myth 1: New Is Better Than Refurbished. Myth 5: It Has a Short Life Span.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2017

One man I supervise planned on taking his laptop on his honeymoon. Julie Fanning is a licensed clinical social worker (MSW, LCSW), and she also gives advice to those pursuing a degree or career in social work over at MSW. You are usually provided with vacation time. Use these days. Just don’t do that.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

During the intervening two years, we have entered the “post-PC” era in which laptop and desktop computers are being superseded by tablets, phones and other mobile devices.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. Refurbishers in emerging markets will start to see a higher supply of laptops for refurbishment.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 17, 2009

You will want to insure your business equipment, even if that's just a laptop. Deal with legal and administrative stuff, such as: get a business license. You will need General Liability if clients will come to your office. And remember the most important form of computer insurance--regular backups, preferably stored off-site.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 25, 2009

Their license card scheme was a little funky and an online version didn’t quite work out. They introduced a new keychain format which lets me keep my copy of 1Password in sync on both my laptop and desktop computers. They respond to tweets and emails promptly. But the software was updated again. It works beautifully. version).

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 25, 2009

Their license card scheme was a little funky and an online version didn’t quite work out. They introduced a new keychain format which lets me keep my copy of 1Password in sync on both my laptop and desktop computers. They respond to tweets and emails promptly. But the software was updated again. It works beautifully. version).

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2011

To be eligible for the Get Genuine donations, the existing computers on which your organization will install the full Windows OS software must currently have one of the following: Counterfeit, pirated, or otherwise illegal, unlicensed, or improperly licensed Windows operating systems. Home or Starter editions of Windows XP.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

By "post-PC," Jobs meant essentially that computing and Internet use for both work and pleasure will no longer be dominated by PCs, but that there will be an array of smart devices including smartphones, tablet computers, smart TVs, laptops, and even sensing devices in our clothes and cars and other every day items.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

Week 1 I should have taken pictures – unboxing a new laptop is a lot of fun. My first step was to make sure the laptop booted. I stopped at the license agreement. I’ll understand points of pain, for sure. I got a Lenovo Thinkpad Z61m. Good specs, cheap price. It booted fine.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2011

Surely you still need your "real" laptop to run your donated copy of Adobe Creative Suite , right? In January, Kevin reviewed the Cr-48 laptop , a Chromebook prototype. Photo: slgckgc , CC license For years, many nonprofits have preferred web-based CRM databases to managing their own CRMs in-house. Always Online?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 14, 2017

Sharing accounts might be convenient, and it might save you on licensing fees, but doing so can be a security liability. A former employee could still have shared login information stored on a laptop that gets stolen. Avoid Sharing Accounts Whenever Possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2007

If more of us are screencasting, then all I have to do is remix other people's work, provided they've licensed their material using creative commons licensing. I only did so because one of the prizes was a laptop and my current one is on its last legs. There's some execellent content there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

Photo in Flickr - CC "by/nc" license - Mr.GluSniffer. It made me think of the Berkman lecture I heard called " Legal Education in the Networked World " where there was a hot debate about whether laptops in the classroom were a good or bad thing. That could just be me and my own laptop induced add.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 1, 2015

In today’s environment, most applications can now be accessed immediately with only an Internet connection from your laptop, smartphone or tablet The complex and time consuming installation process has been replaced with a simple login that allows us instant access to the tools we need to do our jobs.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

More than 90 percent of laptop and desktop PCs are running some version of Windows. If you don't have an operating system that is eligible for an upgrade license, you might be eligible to request a Windows Pro full operating system through TechSoup. It is also a very good version of Windows by most accounts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Subsequently, I invited Gautam John who works with Pratham Books to write a guest post about their social publishing strategy where he briefly touched upon their use of Creative Commons licenses. Enabling a Participatory Culture using Creative Commons Licenses by Gautam John. We now use Creative Commons licenses everywhere!

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 9, 2014

As the cost for issuing mobile devices like smartphones, laptops or tablets can be more than a non-profit can bear, bring your own device can be a solution, but there are risks and benefits to consider. You should be evaluating your technology regularly and asking yourself these questions: Do we have enough user licenses?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Follow the on-screen prompts to select your language options and accept the End User License Agreement. See How to Reuse Old Laptops with Windows MultiPoint Server. Insert the CD/DVD or flash drive that includes the installation files into the "host" computer. Start the computer to begin installation. Image: Dell Inc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2005

Note to self: It probably would have been worth for me to get the extra license for ecto for my laptop. I am going to be linearally anal and back date the post so they are in the correct order. That way I could have prepared the content offline and simply uploaded it later.). Well, at least it wasn't something stupid I did.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 30, 2014

TechSoup’s Refurbished Computer Initiative provides factory refurbished commercial grade laptop and desktop computer systems to 501(c)(3) faith-based organizations including churches, synagogues, and mosques. The TechSoup admin fee for this service is $71 for one year. Refurbished Computer Initiative.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Patrons can also bring their own laptops and tablets and use the library's free WiFi. Windows MultiPoint Server Premium 2011 licensing. Like most libraries, La Conner Library provides public access computers to patrons to use however they wish. 4 Plugable USB Docking Stations. 1 USB Hub. 5 keyboards. 5 Refurbished LCD Monitors.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Patrons can also bring their own laptops and tablets and use the library's free WiFi. Windows MultiPoint Server Premium 2011 licensing. Like most libraries, La Conner Library provides public access computers to patrons to use however they wish. 4 Plugable USB Docking Stations. 1 USB Hub. 5 keyboards. 5 Refurbished LCD Monitors.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

At some point, when I’ve saved up enough pennies, I’m going to buy a Mac laptop again. I think it can also work for the folks who perhaps use laptops as their primary machines, and don’t do anything except email and web. And, guess what? I’m giving up. And, of course, always, for developers.

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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. It’s a new licensing arrangement in which Adobe products users download the software as they have in the past and use it on PCs, but licensing is on a monthly per-user fee basis. Here’s what it all looked like to me.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2015

Symantec donated more than 432,000 licenses reaching more than 23,000 organizations in 29 countries last year. TechSoup's Refurbished Computer Initiative (RCI) offers factory-refurbished, warrantied, commercial-grade desktops, laptops, and tablet computers. RCI also offers free end-of-life take-back and recycling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

Unfortunately, I did not have my laptop accessible in that moment. It took me about an hour of searching on many different key words to try to find a photo that was creative commons licensed, showing a person or people of color at a computer. I was hoping to find a better photo of young people at the computers for future presentations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2005

Get ecto on my laptop. I cheaped out on a second license for ecto and that would have saved my butt when the wireless Internet collasped from the weight of 300 blogher s. Eath is in New York and I'm definitely going to try to connect with her face-to-face. That way, I could have been preparing the content offline and uploaded later.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

In this blog post, I'll compare costs and energy usage for a WMS setup versus a conventional setup in which every user has a laptop or desktop computer. WMS can also use legacy hardware, such as old laptops or desktop computers. This can cost up to $199 for Windows Professional commercial licensing, for example.

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fusionSpan

JULY 5, 2023

Ensure their laptops are encrypted using Window’s bitlocker. Lastly, and possibility my favorite, if you’re an O365 shop, please consider paying for the Defender for Office Plan 1 license for each user and turn on Safe Links and Safe Attachments. Ensure that screens are auto locking after 15 minutes of inactivity.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 19, 2013

Microsoft's Windows MultiPoint Server is very useful in these environments, and refurbishers now have three places to go to get donated and discounted MultiPoint Server licensing: TechSoup , The Microsoft Registered Refurbisher Program , and Microsoft in Education. Using Old Laptops As Client Devices With Windows MultiPoint Server.

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3rd Sector Labs

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Instead of being installed on computers that are owned and operated by the organization, and located in their offices, software “in the cloud” is owned by another company, located on their computer network, and licensed to the customer organization for remote Internet access and usage. 5 – Storage and backup.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

The charity pricing on it is is free for up to ten licenses with as much as a 75% discount per seat above that. The centerpiece of the philanthropic project is a cloud networking solution that’s free (forever) to 501(c)(3) organizations that need ten licenses or fewer. Larger nonprofits can get additional licenses at half off.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Windows MultiPoint Server software is ordinarily available through academic or commercial volume licensing. or Premium , and on the license type, either Academic or Commercial. What MultiPoint MultiPoint Server Licensing Do I Need? The licensing for Windows MultiPoint Server is a bit complicated. Both MultiPoint Server.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

A perpetual license costs $1299 and student teachers can access the solution for $399. With dominKnow, your team will be able to: Create responsive eLearning for laptops, tablets, and mobile phones alike. There are also enterprise licensing options for larger teams. An individual subscription for Adobe Captivate costs $33.99

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

And I said, well, what if somebody wants to watch Netflix on their company laptop? But if it’s eight o’clock in the evening, and I’ve got my organization laptop at home, and I want to watch Netflix, like, who cares, right? And I’ve been noticing that that was starting when we started bringing laptops to meetings.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2015

Ironically, these cloud services are typically offered at costs that are more economical than traditional licensed software and internal support expenses combined. Everything you’re hearing tells you that SaaS is better than the old licensing model. Here are 5 reasons the cloud is right for your organization: 1.

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