Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2020

According to Beth, a good meeting is based on good design. If you want to look better on camera, you can raise the level of the laptop or use a light close to you! Icebreakers: Stoke Deck : A collection of warm-up activities designed to boost energy, build connection, foster empathy, support collaboration, and cultivate creativity.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

It’s been a little bit weird that Apple would sell both a 13-inch MacBook Air and a 13-inch MacBook Pro simultaneously, but perhaps never more than today — because Apple’s new $999 and $1,299 laptops seem nearly identical if you look beyond the differently curved frames. Here’s Apple’s own spec comparison if you want to take a closer look.

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Engadget

APRIL 22, 2025

The right one can offer a smooth scroll wheel, customizable controls and an ergonomic design that wont wreck your wrist during long sessions. It makes almost every other mouse seem quite conspicuous by comparison. But it also makes for a good ergonomic mouse given the location of its controls and overall design.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Increasingly laptops are becoming cumbersome in comparison to smartphones and tablets, and as the Mobile Web continues to expand, so will the tools that have been uniquely designed for smartphones and tablets. Whether we like it or not, the news cycle is now 24/7, and as a journalist for your cause, you need to be, too.

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The Verge

APRIL 20, 2021

Microsoft’s newest Surface Laptop brings better battery life and a better chip On paper, the Surface Laptop 4 is a Surface Laptop 3 with better chips. Sure, there are differences here and there: the Laptop 4 is ever-so-slightly thinner, and there’s a new “Ice Blue” color option. The big changes are on the inside.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

The best Chromebooks for every type of user The best Chromebooks aren’t just laptops that run a few Android apps anymore. Chromebooks can cover a wide variety of computing needs now, and a good Chromebook can be more useful than a mediocre Windows laptop. Asus nailed the basics, too. Photo by Monica Chin / The Verge.

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Allegiance Group

MARCH 17, 2025

We designed a website using data visualization to communicate the results of LTSS policies in states in a way thats easier to understand and remember. Participants also wanted the dashboard to be mobile-friendly and easier to use on a laptop. We designed intuitive interactions to allow users to dig into the data.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

We interviewed the heads of the top Web and mobile development companies, incubators, agencies and labs to understand what it takes to design and develop the most successful apps of our generation. This means — assuming you already have a laptop — the cost is almost nothing to build the next Twitter. 1) Twitter. “The 5) Uber.

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The Verge

JANUARY 7, 2021

The device is a concept laptop-portable gaming console hybrid, and it includes a touchscreen, controller, and dock accessories. For those unfamiliar with the name, LaVie is a joint venture between Lenovo and NEC, and although most of its products don’t make it to the US, it’s had some hits at CES in the past focused on ultra-light laptops.

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The Verge

JULY 8, 2020

But today, I’ve been trying out a different approach: using an aftermarket lens from Moment to improve my laptop’s existing webcam, rather than replacing it entirely. You secure the mount to a laptop with a screw on its back. It’s even a much wider field of view than the Logitech C920 HD Pro I included as a comparison.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Additionally, Microsoft's next generation of Windows 8 touch screen devices, such as tablets and laptops, are designed with accessibility in mind. Narrator has also been designed to be faster and more responsive to reading what's on your display. Learn how Windows 8 differs from Windows 7 in our feature comparison.

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The Verge

MAY 13, 2020

The keyboard is fixed; the rest is exactly what you’d expect The most interesting — and most common — questions I’ve received about this new 13-inch MacBook Pro aren’t about the laptop itself, at least not directly. They’re about comparison shopping it up against other MacBooks and even other Windows laptops.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 11, 2010

I’m actually quite happy – I can run both Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux on my laptop, and I like Android (and my Droid 2 phone) a lot. I had come to chafe at the closed-ness of the whole system, but somehow the ease of use in comparison to the alternatives was addictive for a long time.

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The Verge

MAY 6, 2021

IBM has revealed what it says are the world’s first 2nm process chips, giving a brief preview of the technology that might eventually power the smartphones, laptops, and gadgets of the future. Compared to today’s 7nm chips, the new IBM technology features dramatically more transistors, thanks to the more compact design.

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The Verge

MARCH 17, 2022

As you can see, the M1 Ultra is an impressive piece of silicon: it handily outpaces a nearly $14,000 Mac Pro or Apple’s most powerful laptop with ease. I’m sure Apple’s chart is accurate in showing that at the relative power and performance levels, the M1 Ultra does do slightly better than the RTX 3090 in that specific comparison.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Each push pin (that looks like a MacBook Pro) is a page from a travel diary written by his new laptop. The report includes a summary of design principles, some common visual formats, as well as a review and comparison of free/low cost tools. Colleague Alan Levine customized a google map.

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The Verge

JUNE 2, 2021

Not only are they the company’s first tablets running its own HarmonyOS operating system, but the smaller MatePad Pro and MatePad 11 use Snapdragon chips produced by Qualcomm rather than the Huawei-designed Kirin processors found in its previous devices. But with the 12.6-inch

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The Verge

AUGUST 16, 2021

Cooler, quieter, cheaper About a year ago, I wrote about a gaming mouse called the Zephyr that came with a unique feature: a built-in fan designed to cool your palm as you play games. The external design hasn’t changed all that much. It didn’t blow me away; the fan was loud, vibrated a lot, and didn’t really feel all that cool.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Apple has finally introduced its first Macs with processors it designed itself: a 13-inch MacBook Air , a 13-inch MacBook Pro , and a Mac mini. Apple is promising significant performance benefits over Intel processors and, for the laptops, a huge increase in battery life. (To Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. With Arm, we don’t.

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The Verge

JUNE 4, 2021

These new laptops would have new Apple-designed processors that would “greatly outpace the performance and capabilities of the current M1 chips,” according to Bloomberg. By comparison, the M1’s CPU has four high-performance and four energy-efficient cores, while its GPU is offered with either seven or eight cores.) Image: Apple.

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The Verge

MAY 11, 2021

A laptop unlike any other The Acer ConceptD 7 Ezel is a computer I will never own. This unique form factor makes the ConceptD 7 Ezel unlike any other laptop on the market. A normal-looking laptop, until you start bending the screen. I started out using the Ezel in Laptop most of the time, but Float grew on me quickly.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

Through huge screen size changes, complete design overhauls, and an ever-expanding ecosystem of apps, the iPhone’s home screen remained simple. Android widgets, by comparison, often look like they are creatures from the 2011 lagoon. iPadOS, by comparison, has made text selection and windowing get complicated — they’re harder to avoid.

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The Verge

JUNE 23, 2020

For years, Apple has steadily revealed how the ARM-based chips in its mobile phones were catching up in performance to the beefier silicon you’d find inside a laptop or desktop — in 2018, the company claimed its new iPad Pro was faster than 92 percent of portable PCs. And it’s true that not everything is about performance, anyhow.

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The Verge

AUGUST 18, 2020

Though Moment is best known for its mobile photography lenses , the company says that these bags are not designed to be camera bags, but are for everyday use. Inside, the bags have a variety of organizational features, including laptop and tablet sleeves, hidden pockets, key rings, and water bottle pockets.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Note that to charge the original model, you’ll need to plug it into the iPad’s Lightning connector — a design that remains cringe-worthy to this day. We’ve got another great deal for non-Apple users, this time on a touchscreen laptop. They even come outfitted with a USB-C port for charging, and they fold up in a compact manner.

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The Verge

MARCH 14, 2022

In comparison, I heard a lot about how “Studio” is a great word given Apple’s target audience. Design studio. Michael Janiak, a co-founder of the Pattern design agency, puts it another way — “it definitely is evocative of a particular kind of vibe and environment where creative work happens,” he says in an email. “To

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 12, 2011

Last weekend, from sundown, March 4th to sundown, March 5th, I turned off my cell phone, laptop, and TV as part of the National Day of Unplugging. Witnessing their evolution can inspire you, and, if you put on your comparison glasses, bite you with the envy bug. spruce up your own blog's design, use more photos in your posts).

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The Verge

JULY 29, 2021

The vast majority of tech companies are fabless, meaning that they outsource the fabrication of their chips — even if they design them themselves — to other companies. The chips offered great performance, even though — much like their own long-delayed Ice Lake predecessors — they were limited to only lower-powered laptops.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

That includes Samsung's Presidents' Day event, which has packed its online storefront chock full of deals on TVs , smartphones, wearables, laptops , and other premium gadgets from its roster — to the tune of up to $2,000 off. 1TB) $109.99 (save $20 + free EVO Select + Adapter microSDXC (64GB)) Get Deal Presidents' Day (Feb.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Rather than sit at a dealership inputting all this information, customers can do it all from the comfort of their own home using Ford’s smartphone app, FordPass, or a laptop or desktop through Ford’s website. By comparison, Tesla currently has around 5,000 Superchargers with about 15,000 plugs in the US. None of this is unique to Ford.

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The Verge

AUGUST 6, 2020

A few corners have been cut, but the fact that they’re even worth mentioning is a testament to how excellent this laptop is. But the main drawback is the design — and again, by “drawback,” I really mean “aspect that’s not quite as exceptional as everything else.” The downward-firing stereo speakers are also not great.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

It’s a title that hit native 4K previously, but the 6 teraflops of GPU performance in the One X was bottlenecked by a laptop-like CPU and an old spinning hard disk. I’m sure the excellent folks over at Digital Foundry will also have their usual side-by-side comparisons for frame rates and performance soon. Quick Resume.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

One of our favorite gaming laptops, the Asus ROG Zephyrus G15, is currently available for its lowest price ever at Best Buy. Topping it all off, the laptop is powered by an AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS processor, and it has a 1440p display with a 165Hz refresh rate. Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales/ The Verge. Read our review.

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The Verge

MARCH 26, 2022

While the 2021 model lacks the matte, anti-reflective display found on this year’s model, they’re both designed to display artwork when not in use, allowing them to blend in more easily with your home’s decor. We preferred this remote over its predecessor given it boasts a better design and includes power, volume, and mute buttons.

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The Verge

JULY 8, 2021

Intel’s cookie-cutter laptop is behind the competition while costing more The Element Lite is not the kind of laptop that Maingear usually makes. Compared to its fleet of game-ready laptops, this one stands out with a sleek, minimalist, and thin aluminum-clad design. Its speakers are good, too. It’s also too expensive.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Speaking of all-time lows, if you’re on the hunt for a great, lightweight laptop that’s under $1,000, Amazon is currently selling Microsoft’s Surface Laptop 4 at its lowest price ever. Shifting away from laptops to e-readers, Amazon’s kid-friendly Kindle Paperwhite makes for a great holiday gift both children and parents will love.

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The Verge

MAY 11, 2021

If you’re wondering why every company under the sun has released new gaming laptops today, it’s because Intel has announced its newest flagship mobile processors. 16:10 is highly unusual to see in gaming laptops; it’s more commonly found in business and productivity machines due to the extra vertical space it provides. Image: Asus.

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