Enter the Western Digital Passport portable external drives, which come with WDSync software that allows you to carry with you all your files and personal settings, encrypted, in a portable drive (500GB is only $129). You can plug into any PC and edit Microsoft office docs, send or receive emails and more, leaving no files behind on the computer you used, including cookies and cache. I recommend backing up your important files on one drive, and using a second drive for on-the-go computing as described above.

If I’m fortunate enough to win these items, here’s how the magic will be shared. I would set up several competitions, similar to what you are doing here at JKOnTheRun, for everyone to win. The Kung Fu Panda will go to an elementary school in my town, where the students will compete in an essay of how they can do something to better themselves or better their community each day. One of the PC’s will go to this school as well, in a contest where students write how such technology will improve their educational experiences. Another PC with the Microsoft Office software will go to a disadvantaged student, through another contest, as I have worked with disadvantaged youth on a volunteer basis before. I plan to keep one notebook PC for my own use, and most or all of the other items will go to less fortunate individuals but will not be “free giveaways” but rather something they must take proactive action to acquire. I hope it will foster a proactive attitude with a lesson in compassion and humanity in my community, as I believe the world is full of talented people who often fail to achieve due to lack of motivation to take action.

Thanks, guys!

How I’m going to share the magic…

With all this stuff I would help to an institution and to a person. The Pavilion dv4 series Entertainment Notebook PC (with Windows Live) is going to be destined to the institution, where they take care the children with limited resources, where they could give several uses to this laptop. One of them is to be able to take the administrative control since they lack a computer and this could facilitate this control. Also I will give to them the DVD’s so the children can enjoy the movie. The HP HDX 18 series Premium Notebook PC is going to be destined to a friend that I had seen that his parents had sacrificed too much to be able to pay the university to him but they cannot provide him with a computer and with a computer he can grow more academically as professionally. He will need this computer because of his career, he will study design and he needs a powerful laptop that can open powerful programs like photoshop. As an extra I will give to him the photosmart, software and the Corel Video Studio X2. The HP Mini 1000 (with XP) I’m giving it to one of my parents because they don’t have a computer to take to their work. I’m not who is giving all this stuff, just a bearer of the kindness of the company HP and Microsoft that have such a great heart to help several human beings who lack of computers.

I’m very happy to help the institution and to a friend. By the way, this institution that I want to help is an institution that with some group of friends, we help them in the ilumination of the school and what better to help them with a computer. To see a video of this institution visit this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivOK1UJBAwk. Guatemala is a third world country and helping the schools with some technology, the country will be better and improved. This makes me to think about South Korea, this country was a third world country and with the learning of technology is now a first world country. God Bless Hp and Microsoft for this fantastic giveaway!

Hope I win!

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Now something about what i would like to do with all those $6000 worth of stuff.Certainly, like many people here,i don’t need them all for my personal use.So, i will take the Mini 1000 & will share the rest of the parts in the following order :-

1) The Touchsmart will be given to a science muzeum nearby where they desperately need an updated computer for their job.

2) The HDX 18 lappy would go to a college student who lives 2 houses away from my house.He has just enrolled himself into a multimedia computer course but finding it difficult to cope up with the speed of the course as he can’t practice at home for not having a computer of his own.

3) DV4 notebook will be given to my uncle who can then make a very good use of it while travelling.

4) The AIO Printer & the photo value pack will go to one of my sisters who doesn’t have a printer.

5) The rest like the softwares & movies will go to one of my brothers who will love to watch Kungfu Panda in all its glory.

So, that’s what i would do if i get the chnce to win.Thank you very much for the opportunity.

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Tip 3: Backup that data

I am an adult, married with kids, college student and could use the computers for my self and my kids but I would give one of the laptops to a fellow married college student who really could use a laptop to do his work while away from home.

Ken

1. Many have talked about the beauty of the Fujitsu p1610. it truly is a great machine. you can get a pretty good deal + around $600 – on ebay, since Fuji put them on ebay when the p1620 came out. Enjoy!

2. The second: travelling in europe, it’s definitely doable to have lots of internet access for cheap. bring a HSDPA phone – on ebay for $100 or so if you don’t have one – and a dongle/pc card for your pc/umpc/netbook/fuji p1610 :) – ebay for about $60.

Then turn to prepaidGSM.net to find your best provider for where you going… Worked great for us for Italy, but listings for countries around the world.

As for what to do with it: I’m sharing with Center for Economic Research and Social Change… against racism, fighting poverty…

There is so much need right now in my community and the world. I just want to let you know how I would distribute this prize to help others. I work at a community college in Orlando. I would donate part of this package to a deserving student, part to benefit a visually impaired student, and part to benefit a local animal shelter.

In the SSH variety, you could disable password logins, and then you could log into your machine securely without bothering to remember them.

Or, if you’re a little paranoid, you could put a password on the key. Capturing your password wouldn’t do the other person any good, because they also need your private key file. Which can be revoked.

I don’t want to spend a lot of energy thinking of places I’d put machines I don’t win. I guess I’d give one or two to my brothers, because I always give the nicest things to my brothers, and I’d bring one or two to the tutorial service I volunteer at, because the kids could use them there.

If I were to win I would share at least one of the laptops with my brother, who’s current laptop is about to kick the bucket. I would donate the Office 2007 software to a local school to be given to students that would most benefit.

If I should win, I would donate the Touchsmart desktop to my kid’s school pc lab,(They could definitely use it! I would then distribute the remaining laptops to my kids (keeping the Mini 1000 for myself, gotta have a netbook ;)

Win or lose, love the site!!! Happy Holidays to everyone!

The standard Microsoft license allows for one copy to be installed on a primary computer (my desktop), and another copy on a portable device (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/suites/HA101655301033.aspx#2). This is where my mobile “magic” starts to happen. I do most of my work on my laptop, though I like to keep a copy of just about everything on my desktop computer as well. For most files, this requires regular syncing between the two — not a lot of work, but still requiring some steps from me.

After I installed OneNote on my laptop, I opened the notebooks (from the desktop, over my home network) that I wanted to work with. Here’s where the “mobile magic” starts to happen… OneNote automatically syncs the note files as changes are made while the network is connected. When I am working “offline”, the changes are automatically updated on both computers as soon as I am back on my network. I can literally work on my notes in one room, get up, go to the desktop computer, and the notes are already there. No clicking “Save”, no clicking “Sync” — it’s all automatic, as if literally by magic.

OneNote also provides me with an extra degree of mobile magic. Since returning to college this year after a 20-year “break”, as a student enrolled at least part-time, I was able to purchase Microsoft Office Ultimate (which includes OneNote and Outlook) for $60 (http://www.microsoft.com/student/discounts/theultimatesteal-us/default.aspx). I quickly discovered that OneNote and Outlook play very nice together, further enhancing my productivity and general organization.

For example, in the notebook for my online class, I copy and paste the weekly message board assignment into OneNote. Clicking the little task flag at the top of the screen automatically creates a task item in Outlook, which is added to my Palm the next time I synchronize it. Conversely, marking the task as done in any of those places marks it done in ALL the places. Again, my organizational processes are nicely streamlined, requiring very little of me other than to DO the actual task. I’m looking forward to the next version of OneNote, which appears to be headed for online integration — http://jkontherun.com/2008/10/28/cloudy-microsof/, which would provide an even greater cohesiveness to my organization and productivity.

OneNote has many other useful features, but in terms of mobility, its strongest points for me are in the seamless connectivity it provides between my Palm, my laptop, and my desktop computer. It has been a tremendous asset during my first term back to school, and I highly recommend it to anyone. If you are fortunate enough to win this contest, I would encourage you to keep the copy of Microsoft Office Home and Student — OneNote is included, and, to me, is worth just as much than the other programs included.

If I were to win this contest, I would share the prizes with several people, including my wife and her friends who get together regularly to make cards for the patients and families at the cancer center. I also have a couple of other people in mind who I would love to be able to give the gift of mobility and portability to. The only things I would want to keep for myself would be the TouchSmart PC (to replace the aging family computer), and the Kung Fu Panda DVD for my 6-year-old son.

Joe Grabowski

If I won this great prize package I’d give the PC to my mom who is using an old pc that gives her nothing but headaches. I’d give one of the laptops to my brother who is always stopping at libraries to use their computers because his laptop is on its last legs. I’d share the MS Office with my mom and brother. I’d give the Kung Fu Panda DVD’s to nieces and nephews who will watch the movie over and over and over.

Keep in mind that even if you use a PC-based email package, that’s not the only filtering point in your email environment if you have a service provider which ALSO gives you web-based access to your email.

Because then (whether you know it or not) that provider is HIGHLY likely to be filtering your email, dumping SOME of your communications into your SPAM folder (which is only visible from a browser connection into your email account, NOT from Outlook Express or other email package) — and you would never know unless you checked via browser.

And, in case you haven’t read up on the issue, Google’s gmail has NO option to allow you to turn off that “Spam” filtering, so by default YOU don’t even KNOW that something has been sifted out.

In Google, however, it is possible to side-step the automatic SPAM filtering by creating your own filter which runs before the spam filter. On your “Inbox” page, look for and click on “create filter”. In the popup window, select the item which mentions “does not contain” and enter a string of six or seven symbols (shifted numerics usually work best) — and make sure to repeat one of the symbols at least three times in a row… The resulting string is pretty much guaranteed to never be found in an incoming email, always triggering the next stage of the filter process. Click “save” or “continue”, and on the next page, select the item most similar to “never send to Spam folder”.

Save that filter. From now on, you will see a slight increase in incoming cruft, but you can be reassured that you aren’t going to miss out on any legitimate opportunities that some SPAM filter arbitrarily decided you didn’t need to see.

If this turns out to ‘cut the mustard’, we’ve already ‘got a plan’ for divvying up ‘the Magic’. Our younger son is autistic, and would benefit hugely from the TouchSmart; one of our teenage care-providers is heading to College and well deserves a laptop-to-go; our son’s special needs school is still quite new and small and has almost no extra equipment; and our local community of families with autistic children has a person running ASGO (the Autism Society of Greater Orlando) who very much needs a laptop to assist with her efforts when she is NOT in her office. The rest of the kaboodle? We’ll find good homes for it too — Magic comes around and goes around, as long as you Share it!

This giveaway comes at this blessed time of sharing what we have with others to make their lives better. If I win, I will have a great time distributing all these electronic goodies. Over 600 students will benefit from the magic!

I am an elementary art teacher in an urban school district in Kansas. Our student population is very diverse which brings our school strength, joys and challenges. While the classroom teachers are given the latest technology, specials teachers–art, music, physical education and library–get ours much later, if at all. Usually we have to jump through major hoops, such as writing and administrating grants, to gain access to technology. To honor these dedicated professionals I will be sharing the laptops, printers and software with the other five people in my specials team.

The HP Pavilion DV4 Entertainment Notebook PC and HP HDX 18 series Premium Notebook PC would have excellent visual and auditory capabilities for the music and art classes. The touch screen features of the HP TouchSmart IQ816 PC would make it ideal for working with our learning disabled and English for Speakers of Other Languages students. The HP Mini 1000 would be perfect to take to district meetings to take notes or for our Physical Education teachers to track their students’ progress. The HP MediaSmart Connect would help students access television programming, such as when the Winter Olympic Games are broadcast in 2010. The specials team recently completed a school wide unit on the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing.

Because it is wireless, our entire specials team could share the HP Photosmart C6380 wireless AIO printer. Visual examples would be more appealing to students in color than black and white–especially on the quality paper of the HP 564 Photo Value Pak.

The software will make all of the hardware work to its capacity. With the Corel VideoStudio X2 teachers and parent volunteers in the PTO will have a great time making videos and slides shows of school activities to share at Parent Nights at the school.

We can’t show Kung Fu Panda at school, because it is rated PG, but my sons and nephew would love this DVD.

Thanks for the opportunity to reach the hearts and minds of children through the magic of technology.