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Mouse not working? Learn the FIREFOX keyboard shortcuts

giacomo@iwith.org (Giacomo Calvo) — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:57:00 +0100

� Ever been working online using Firefox and your mouse stops working? Never fear, you can do everything from your keyboard! This page will teach you 10 essential Firefox keyboard shortcuts...

Publicize your Events! Here's a good way.

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:07:00 +0100

We've spoken about twitter and how you can use it to create websites to publicize your cause. Now twitter offers a tool to create events and promote them among your followers. It's really easy. Read on..

Edit your videos on the Internet: the first step towards your video blog

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:54:00 +0100

Recently, we have been telling you how useful the video blog is as a marketing tool for your NGO, on the internet. Now, we offer you the tools in order to create your own movies without having to buy a programme.

IntInternet also helps us print books

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Fri, 30 May 2008 18:58:00 +0100

Following our book contest, we discovered a tool that allows you to publish books on line. If you have a study, essay, novel, or work of any other genre and you are interested in publishing it as a book, get to know BUBOK.

What to do with .dat files?

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:00:00 +0100

Do you ever receive .dat attachments and wonder what you should do to read their content? Keep reading…

Tools for Sharing Large Files Online

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:00:00 +0100

Useful information especially for those that work with Online Volunteers: A list of 17 sites that allow file sharing of up to 50 GB.

Twitter is also useful to non-profit organizations

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:00:00 +0100

The famous tool or social network twitter surprises us by the number of networks that it has been creating: there are groups that talk about health, searching for missing people, investigation matters, all those topics that one may arrive at the asking What are you doing?. The result is such that, depending on how you use the network, it may be very useful to your organization.

Retouch and Restore your Images with Magic.

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:00:00 +0100

Did it happen to you sometime that you don’t have a good file of your organization’s logo because you never had it digital? Or maybe you have the pixel design but if you enlarge the image it gets blurred? We introduce you to a tool that not by mistake it has been called “Vector Magic”.

Social Booking: The New Tendency

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:00:00 +0100

You recognize it for the icons that appear under the new information published on the net. It is a way to keep your favorite websites and content in an organized and online manner, easy to administrate and also with the possibility to share it with the rest of the internet users.

Very Useful E-Mails

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 23:00:00 +0100

We have gathered a very interesting fact from the blog world: E-mail addresses you write to and in turn receive different results from, from converting a file format to publishing a series of items on the internet through your cell phone.

Sending An Email To Everyone In Your Address Book? Read This First

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 23:00:00 +0100

If you’re thinking of sending a ‘Bcc’ email to everyone in your address book be careful and remember that a massive group email could be considered as SPAM. The Iwith.org Ab�core platform offers you a solution.

FireVox, Firefox�s spoken version

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:00:00 +0100

This "Bocatic" features Firevox, an open source resource and talking extension for the Firefox web browser, which makes it accessible for people with eyesight problems. In addition to the basic features that are expected of screen readers, FireVox�s developers highlight the fact that it provides support for MathML and CSS module.

Accessibility Color Wheel

myriam@iwith.org (Myriam Dufourcq) — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:00:00 +0100

Today we recommend Accessibility Color Wheel, the fruit of our collaboration with the Associaci� Catalana de Cecs i Disminu�ts Visuals (Catalonian Society for the Blind and Partially Sighted).

Social Bookmarking and Office, all in one.

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 22:00:00 +0100

A few days ago, we informed you about Zoho, a group of applications, some of them for office, available online. Today with Think Free, we talk specifically about a tool to take advantage of Office utils online, making your job easier, but also allowing you to share documents with all the functionalities of the Social Bookmarking.

Edit your photographs!

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 22:00:00 +0100

We are always keeping you up to date on tools which can improve your files on line. We have recommended various photo alternatives to you and today we present Picnik.

The takeaway office.

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 22:00:00 +0100

Can you imagine all Office applications you use everyday on line? You could keep up an organizer, create a slide show, work with Excel or write a Word document on line. It exists. Just keep on reading.

Don't be flummoxed by a foreign language: Translate it with ease!

( ) — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 22:00:00 +0100

If you run into language problems while surfing the net you now have the tool you need for instant translation of text and even of whole web pages.

Forbidden Symbols

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarr�a) — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 22:00:00 +0100

The process of uploading a photograph or any document to our webs is not difficult, although, you should not forget that in the name of the file there should not be symbols that make its reading impossible.

Make your organization to become a multimedia ONG

erika@bocatics.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:00:00 +0100

Some time ago we talked about the on line video editing tools of youtube.com. Today we are going to talk to you about Jumpcut, from Yahoo family. It is the video platform and the podcast of the company, the sister of Flickr as far as pictures is concerned.

What does RSS mean?

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 22:00:00 +0100

RSS everything you need to know about these three letters and their famous icon as you've never heard it before

Why Internet is slow?

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:00:00 +0100

Generally we get on our nerves when our computer does not work at the speed of our thoughts or mouse movements. We do not know whose fault is it and we think about the whole company that provides our Internet services. Now, we will present you a really useful tool in order to cut short the list of "guilty ones".

Add all the search engines you want to your Mozilla Search Bar

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:00:00 +0100

A fast and simple way to ensure that any search engine is constantly available in the Mozilla Search Bar.

Trucos para Compartir Archivos Pesados

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:00:00 +0100

You are travelling and you have a great number of pictures that you want to share with your organization, but they turn out to be too big and you can't figure out how to share them. You have some interesting documents that you need to discuss with your work group, but they are so big that it is impossible to send them via e-mail. What can you do then?. Read the following article.

Spacexchange � a Debate about Financing Not for Profit Organisations

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 22:00:00 +0100

In May the first IESE-SIGMA meeting took place regarding Strategy in NPOs for Obtaining Resources. In the following article we throw some light on the current financing situation within NPOs in Spain, and we review the conclusions of the meeting which have led to thoughts of a possible second meeting in IESE Barcelona in 2008 on the occasion of the 50th. anniversary of the business school.

Now YouTube allows you to edit your videos online

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 22:00:00 +0100

YouTube has launched an online video editing tool, YouTube Remixer. And although it cannot replace the editing software available in the office, it's enough to make a few basic retouches. Now we can add text, graphics, sounds, and apply cuts, transitions, filters and effects, among other functions, to the videos we post on YouTube.

Convert Everything

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:00:00 +0100

We have the tool you were looking for to convert documents. If you are a user of Open source programs, or free sofware, this is the solution that enables you to open or save files.

Share your Tricks and Learn About Other NGOs

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:00:00 +0100

Social Source Common is a space for sharing your organisation’s tools and software, gaining knowledge and supporting and discovering new tricks on the Internet. It’s also a place for making contacts with people with similar interests to your own. In short, through SSC you will answer the question, what tools do you use?

Free Software to support education in Bolivia

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:00:00 +0100

OTIC is an NGO in Bolivia specialized in IT that does not receive any financing but is very motivated and at the moment is working on free software to support the first, second, third and fifth school grades.

Make your own Opinion Pool

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Tue, 22 May 2007 22:00:00 +0100

Maybe your organization needs to submit a matter to the consideration of a specific group, or either, your aim is to propose a burning issue in order to generate your own statistics. Deliberaweb provides you with all the means for you to do it.

How not to be considered Spam, or suffer it

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Thu, 17 May 2007 22:00:00 +0100

This is the famous ‘junk mail’ that raise an ethic question among those who receive, send or manage electronic mail. To what extent can you send publicity through the Internet? And, if you are not a company, how can you prevent this virtual marketing or being confused for Spam? These are questions we will try to develop in the following article.

Phixr: edit your images online!

laia@iwith.org (Laia Duran i Batidor) — Sat, 12 May 2007 22:00:00 +0100

Some days ago we told you about Snipshot and you were fascinated... Well, just wait until you find out about Phixr... You will be eager to publish your pictures in your website.

Don�t stop reading your e-mails: redirect them!

erika@bocatics.org (Erika Olavarr�a) — Thu, 10 May 2007 22:00:00 +0100

You are on holidays and you won’t be able to check your organisation’s e-mail. What can you do? Then you remember a word that is used frequently lately: REDIRECT.

Here we explain you how to do it, we help you to understand the pros and cons and we offer you other options

Waiting too much to open your PDF documents?

erika@bocatics.org (Erika Olavarr�a) — Sun, 06 May 2007 22:00:00 +0100

If you are always working with downloaded Web documents in PDF format, you will probably find that Acrobat is far too slow in opening them. In this BocaTIC we give you a tip in order to read PDF documents faster and speed up your tasks considerably.

Tools for Easier Reading

erika@bocatics.org (Erika Olavarr�a) — Sun, 06 May 2007 22:00:00 +0100

Do you find some web pages hard to read? It could be because of the font size or the screen resolution.Here are some simple tips: with the Ctrl key and one other key you can save yourself some tired eyes.

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Search for books: another way to search using Google

laia@iwith.org (Laia Duran i Batidor) — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 22:00:00 +0100

Google sets the standard in search engines. You can’t find anything on the internet without Google. But, do you really know how to search using Google?

We’d like to give you a trick to search for books using Google.

People with disabilities and ICT

nicola@iwith.org (Nicola Polinelli) — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:00:00 +0100

Over 10% of the world’s population suffers from a variety of disabilities. How ICT can improve their way of live?

Edit the Picture you found in Internet

laia@iwith.org (Laia Duran i Batidor) — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 22:00:00 +0100

Last day we explained you about how to edit your images online with Snipshot. Today we are telling you how to edit the images you find browsing the Web, with Snipshop extension for Firefox.

I need to reduce the size of an image right now!

laia@iwith.org (Laia Duran i Batidor) — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 22:00:00 +0100

You are in a rash, you need to publish an article urgently but the image you have is too large. You do not have the time to install any image editing software, what can you do?

You can edit your pictures online; you just need to open the browser. Let us tell you a bit more about Snipshot

Get a local phone number wherever you are located.

nicola@iwith.org (Nicola Polinelli) — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 22:00:00 +0100

For the time being Skype-In is only available in USA, France, UK and Hong Kong.
What is it?

Edit your photos with GIMP

laia@iwith.org (Laia Duran i Batidor) — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 22:00:00 +0100

You have a photo and wish to crop it? You want to post it on the web, but it is too heavy? You need to change its color? GIMP is Open Source and very easy to use.

Search more effectively with Google

info@iwith.org (Vicen� Garcia) — Thu, 18 May 2006 22:00:00 +0100

Google is a quick and effective tool to find information in the Net. To learn how to use it will help us to find information more accurate to our needs and save our time.�

Learn some basic tricks about Google and search more effectively in the Net.

Skype

Nicola@iwith.org (Nicola Polinelli) — Mon, 01 May 2006 22:00:00 +0100

Have you ever worked out the cost of telephone calls for your organisation?

There are several alternatives to traditional telephoning, and some of them are free of charge.

Skype is one of them. A revolutionary tool!