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How Kickstarter Has Changed Nonprofits

April 10, 2023 By Angus Shaw

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If ever you’ve heard of Kickstarter, you don’t need an explanation to cover what the project entails. However, if the phrase is new to you, understanding exactly what it is will help you understand how it’s changing nonprofits.

Kickstarter is a funding platform. It’s designed to raise funds for creative projects. Through Kickstarter, nonprofits promote projects that are creative in some way and raise funding for them. The person behind a nonprofit’s project is solely responsible for it, from the creation to the finish.

The general public is given access to the project. It has a deadline and a goal. If individuals are interested in what the nonprofit is proposing to do with the project, they can pledge money to help the nonprofit reach its goal. [Read more…]

Originally posted on November 21, 2013 @ 5:34 am

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: featured, Kickstarter, non profits

6 Reasons People Love to Buy Gadgets

April 10, 2023 By Angus Shaw

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You see them all the time, right? Top ten gadgets of the holiday shopping season, or five must-have gadgets that are coming next year? The gadget-related titles and content are all over the internet, and that must mean that people are buying them in droves. But why?

That’s a great question. Here are six reasons people love to buy gadgets for themselves and others. [Read more…]

Originally posted on January 3, 2014 @ 11:29 pm

Filed Under: Gadgets Tagged With: featured, Gadgets

Awesome Yet Free Antivirus Programs That Offer Various Protections

April 10, 2023 By Angus Shaw

AVG Free Anti-Virus

If you’ve been reading the news over the last few years you know that hacking is on the rise and that the technology needed to crack your computer is becoming more readily available.

There are many things you can do to protect your home or business computers. You can setup a firewall, you can buy a top-notch router with security protocols built-in, and you can visit only trusted websites.

The most important part of any security plan though is still a great antivirus program.

Understanding that many of our readers might not have money to throw away on an enterprise worth virus scan program we provide you with three excellent options.

After you browse our suggestions head over to Best Antivirus and check out the options available to you. That website offers comparisons between the different virus scan programs with a full list of the features each software option can provide.

AVG – The Free Software Solution That Ushered In Freemium Copycats

AVG secures your computer in several ways. First, the program continually looks for updated definition files to ensure that your computer can detect even the most cutting edge viruses. Second, AVG free offers web browsing safety protocols so suspicious websites stay off your radar and their viruses and malware also remain a distant threat.

One of the best parts about AVG free is that it is very fast and has little interference with your computers regular operations. Leave AVG running as a background task and simply go about your day.

AVG Free also provides email protection with built-in spam blocking which helps users avoiding phishing scams and downloadable content that could hurt your PC.

AVG Free also offers personal identity protection by blocking attempts by hackers to gain access to your personal data.

Premium options are available but AVG Free is an excellent offering for users who just need regular protection.

AVAST 2013 – A Well Respected Option For Any User

Just like AVG Free the Avast 2013 platform has no associated costs, yet it still offers best-in-class security protection for your PC.

The application provides standard virus and spyware scanning that runs comfortably in the users background processes. Avast also provides the ability to reach a “geek friend” with any issues being experienced.

Avast just like its competitors offers constantly updated definition files and its scan process is hyper-ast.

For $19.99 a year you can upgrade to receive email protection, extra firewall protection from hackers, and much more.

BitDefender Free – Unbreakable Protection

I personally don’t believe anything in the computer world is “unbreakable” but BitDefender likes to stand behind that claim.

This piece of entry-level free virus scan software again offers background processes that are resource freeing and quick to run.

BitDefender is great if you know nothing about computer security because the company offers “Zero Questions Configuration” which means no boxes to check or other options to fill out.

If you play games on your PC the gaming feature will  pause major system scans until you hit quit.

BitDefender Free has also been optimized for Windows 8.

Whether you choose Avast, AVG or BitDefender you will be in good hands without paying a dime out of pocket. And the best apart about each platform? If you need more security in the future you can simply upgrade to higher paid plans with each company.

 

Originally posted on October 6, 2013 @ 10:59 pm

AVG Free Anti-Virus

Filed Under: Software Tagged With: Best Antivirus, Virus Scan Software

Legal ways to get music online for your mobile phones

April 10, 2023 By Angus Shaw

Mobile phones have developed and evolved into such powerful machines that it is now packed full of features and capabilities that used to be handled by separate devices. For example, many mobile phone owners have ditched their dedicated digital audio players and now use their phones to listen to music instead.

There are many sources online to get music that you can then download to your mobile phone. We’re not talking about illegal means of getting files but rather the legal sources for getting music. Below are some of the best sources for getting legal music files online: [Read more…]

Originally posted on December 15, 2012 @ 11:45 pm

Filed Under: Apps, Music Tagged With: Android, BearShare, BlackBerry, iOS, mobile phone, Music Genome Project, Rhapsody, Spotify

Complaints Leveled Against Kindle Paperwhite’s Screen

April 10, 2023 By Angus Shaw

Kindle Paperwhite Uneven Backlight
(Photo credit: mrbill)

The Kindle Paperwhite was one of the hot announcements Amazon made a few weeks back. But now that it’s already being sold in the market, it’s been getting some criticisms and complaints about its screen.

Based on comments on online forums and at Amazon, users are complaining about the Kindle Paperwhite producing uneven illumination on the screen that is quite noticeable when viewed in certain lighting conditions. [Read more…]

Originally posted on October 15, 2012 @ 9:02 pm

Filed Under: Amazon, eBook Readers Tagged With: Amazon, amazon kindle, Amazon.com, Complaint, Kindle Paperwhite, Light, Paperwhite, speech recognition

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