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Las Organizaciones Sin Fines de Lucro (OSFL) del país podrán acceder a nuevos beneficios del programa de donación de software que realiza Microsoft a través de DonaTec, programa de la ONG Comité para la Democratización de la Informática (CDI Chile).

Entre estos se encuentran el aumento de títulos disponibles de seis a diez, entre ellos Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Office 2010 y Microsoft Sharepoint 2012; la flexibilización de los plazos para adquirir las licencias y posibilidad de adquirir las licencias para programas que ya poseen pero no son originales. Asimismo, se implementará “Get Genuine” que les permitirá asegurarse de estar usando versiones legítimas.

Por otra parte, se ampliaron las categorías de las organizaciones de investigación medica, fundaciones privadas y aquellas dedicadas a la recreación y deporte amateur.

Este programa se lleva a cabo en Chile desde 1998 y ha favorecido a más de 50 instituciones, donando 3.9 billones de software que equivalen a US$12 millones.

Para acceder a las donaciones, se debe ingresar a www.donatec.cl

 

PsychoWorld lleva más de siete años en la industria de aplicaciones de entretención, utilizando internet como la principal herramienta para desarrollar sus proyectos.

Por Nicolás Leyton Gallego / Fotografías gentileza Max Celedón

When we were in Germany recently, I ordered a new netbook from ASUS. I armed the new machine with free software only. As a young entrepreneur these days you hardly need to buy any software to manage your daily tasks on the computer, such as Word Processing, Spreadsheet Calculation,  Communication; or Image Editing. This is my list of useful free software tools that I installed on my Computer:

• Firefox as a browser, especially the thousands of Add-ons around firefox make your browser the most important tool on your PC. Alternative: Chrome.
• Of Course you should install the latest versions of Java and Flash Player, in order not to limit your browsing experience.
• Microsoft Security Essentials to protect your PC against viruses and malware, for Windows Users. Alternatively: Avast, Antivir.
• OpenOffice as a replacement for the MS Office Suite. I have been working with it for 3 months now and am still not missing my good old MS Office.
• Acrobat Reader.
• PDF Creator to convert documents into pdf format. Open Office can directly export to pdf.
• PDF Sam to split and merge PDFs. Especially if you need to put docs from various sources into one pdf.
• Dropbox for file sharing. 2 GB free online space to share files with colleagues, customers and suppliers. The beauty of Dropbox is the dropbox client. As soon as you update a file on a shared folder on your PC, it is automatically updated on the person's PC you share it with, anywhere in the world.
• Windows Users: CCleaner to clean up Windows regularly. Unfortunately still needs to be done even in Windows 7.
• Skype to make free video calls between Skype Users and cheap international phone calls. Alternative: Google Talk.
• Keypass to manage my passwords. Don't you have hundreds of Passwords. This tool helps you organize and find them.
• Picasa for photo editing and management.
• xnview (Image editing). This tool has an amazing batch processing tool. Ever had the problem that you've got 30 images you want to send, each 5 MB. This tool resizes and compresses all in one go. Alternative: Paintnet.
• VLC Media Player, just the best, plays all formats.
• Filezilla (FTP client), if you want to connect to a web server.

You can also refer to these services that install some of the software I mentioned above in one Go:
Google Pack
Lifehacker Pack 2010