Tag: CHARITY

Bundlelytic, until March 25, is offering a data protection and recovery bundle for $25. The bundle contains Genie Timeline, Paragon Backup & Recovery, and EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard Professional. Individually the three packages would cost you $160. If the great price wasn't sweet enough, 80% of all proceeds -- as in, 80% of your $25 -- will be donated to the Japanese Red Cross Society. ...

In just a day and a half, the massive virtual populations of Zynga's FarmVille, CityVille, and FrontierVille have donated more than $1 million in aid for victims of the natural disasters in Japan. Zynga has added special virtual goods to several games which players can purchase to donate funds. It's a very clever use of in-game purchases, and one even the most jaded of FarmVille detractors ...

Bundleytic, until the end of February, is offering nine Windows programs worth $300 for just $49.99. Half of the proceeds, after the developers get their cut, will go to the Queensland Disaster Relief Appeal to help with the recent floods in Australia. Included in the bundle is: Partition Manager 11, SafeWallet 2, Divvy for Windows, Oops!Backup, System Speedup PRO, Nova PDF Professional 7, ...

The foundation behind Wikipedia, Wikimedia, has reached its goal of $16 million in donations, more than doubling the $7.5 million raised in 2009. Over half a million people donated for an average donation of around $22. The donations are for one purpose: to keep Wikipedia ad-free, and having reached its goal, Wikipedia remains the only top-10 site on the Web that is free of ads and funded ...

Radiohead, a British band that made waves by offering its latest studio album for free or "pay what you want", has just endorsed a community-made DVD of its Haiti earthquake charity concert from January 2010. The DVD is downloadable for free via BitTorrent, and you are strongly encouraged to donate as much as you can to Oxfam's Haiti Earthquake and Recovery Fund. Creation of the video was a ...

Google's Chrome for a Cause extension/experiment ended at midnight last Sunday, and Google has shared the results of its donation campaign. The maximum amount that they were willing to give to charities was set at $1 million, and it was reached. 60,559,541 (yes, that's more than 60 million) tabs were opened by those who had installed Chrome for a Cause in the four days that it counted. This ...

Google's Chrome for a Cause extension promises to donate money to a charity for every new tab you open in Chrome until this Sunday, December 19. At the end of each day you can choose where the money will go, and you have five charities to pick from: Doctors Without Borders -- an independent, international medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid in 70 countries The ...

The most excellent Humble Indie Bundle is back, and yet again five excellent games are available at any price you choose. This year, Braid, Machinarium, Cortex Command, Osmos and Revenge of the Titans are part of the bundle -- and again, a percentage of every donation goes to the EFF and Child's Play charities. All five games work on Windows, Mac, and Linux. The site itself has been ...

You know Amazon's Mechanical Turk? It's one of the more interesting services online: Take people and assign them microscopic tasks. They simply do the tasks and make money, and you get your tasks done. They're not your employees, and you don't even really know who they are. It's all very impersonal – an "on-demand, scalable workforce". Sparked takes that same approach and applies it to ...

I couldn't make this up if I tried: The Linux Foundation is offering a platinum rewards Visa credit card. There is no annual fee, a low introductory APR -- in fact, it's a normal credit card with Tux on the front. Every purchase you make with the Linux credit card will kick back a percentage to the Linux Foundation. The Foundation also gets $50 for every activation! In the words of the ...

DoGooder occupies a somewhat strange position in the Internet advertising world. Its browser extension allows users to replace the ads normally displayed on the websites they browse with campaigns which support green initiatives, charitable causes, and non-profits. Unlike extensions such as AdBlock, DoGooder doesn't actually block a publisher's original ads. Instead, it loads them and then ...

If you wanted to buy the five games in the Humble Indie Bundle at their regular prices, you'd have to shell out 80 bucks. Instead, you can pay what you want for World of Goo, Penumbra Overture, Aquaria, Gish and Lugaru HD, and the money goes to charity. The charities are awesome, too: Child's Play (which provides games, books and cash to sick kids in hospitals) and the Electronic Frontier ...

Rec.fm is one of those ideas that can either be really obnoxious or well-executed. In simple terms, it's a website that lets you recommend products and have your selected charity receive the affiliate fee if anyone buys it as a result of your recommendation. Okay, maybe that didn't come out as simple as I wanted. It's easier to understand as a sequence: You recommend a product via rec.it, ...

Before you get excited, modern video console gamers -- yes you, the one playing HALO -- I mean original table-top role-playing games. Dungeons & Dragons, that kind of thing! DriveThru RPG is offering, until the end of January, $1481 worth of RPG books and materials for the paltry sum of $20. There's a page listing every book in the bundle, but it's pretty damn long. Safe to say, there's ...

It's not often that you find children writing apps -- as Gizmodo notes, he's not the youngest (that award goes to a 9-year-old from Singapore) -- but it's still pretty damn impressive, considering the excellent quality of the application. iSketch [iTunes link] is by no means as nascent or spotty as its creator: it's actually rather good, as far as drawing apps go. Better yet, the app only ...