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Fundable Online Fundraising — Welcome. Featured Article - One Year Report. Preface This article is a one-year report on the experiments with Donationware at DonationCoder.com. Throughout the article I will focus on the specific experiences of our site (DonationCoder.com) in attempting to strike a kind of middle ground - keeping software free but making enough money from donations to fund the site. This is not an article about how to make money with Donationware or an advertisement for our site. It's an honest appraisal of our motivations, goals, and experiences - and a candid discussion of what we've learned after a year. It's addressed primarily to authors who would prefer to keep their software freely available, whether for ethical or practical reasons, but need to find some way to make enough money to justify the time spent coding. You will not get rich making Donationware. If you don't make a concerted effort to raise donations, you won't get any. 1.

The reasons for writing free software are numerous and have been discussed elsewhere in depth [1a,1b]. 2. 3. Ask the Readers: Turn software ideas into software realities? - Stumbleupon - better pass your time on the. Where can I find it? Here is the website of stumbleupon. How does it look? The guys from stumbleupon have created a bunch of screenshots, so I wouldn't have to make my own. Uhm, WHAT is it? StumbleUpon helps you discover and share great websites. And what makes this better then any other service of this kind? To be frank, I don't know of any service, but maybe these should be listed or even reviewed here as well. Why do you bother us with this then?

It actually lets you stumble upon interesting websites! I see stumbleupon as a great way to pass time. What makes you use it? It is easy to install, easy to use; it does not distract the user, and it stays out of the way. * easy to install: the "sign up" button sends you a mozilla site or extensions. . * easy to use: one click to rate sites, one click to stumble upon the next site, one click to tag a site, on click to see what others had to say, one click... you get the picture. Where's the hook? My Impression Hmmm how should I put it, it's solid. Say GoodBye to your Start Menu & Tech.

If you have taken my tip about organizing your Start Menu, then here is one where you can virtually just do away with it! I’ve come across two software with the same functionality. The first is FindRun Robot and the second is Launchy. Both these programs index your start menu for a list of programs. You can press the Alt+Space keys on your keyboad to launch the program. This shortcut can be configured in both programs. Once the window pops up, you begin typing the name of your program that you would like to launch. e.g. I wished to launch Google Talk and hence typed Google. Heuristic scoring by both allows the program to learn. One place where Launcy wins over FindRun Robot is the license. Both programs accept donations, however FindRun Robot has a license that expires and you need to donate to ensure that you have a permanent license.

Launchy also looks cuter with its several skins. Besides the start menu, both programs allow you to index various other directories for shortcuts. Cambrian House & Crowdsourced Software. Links Page. Userscripts.org - Universal Repository. Donationcoder - Wikipedia, the free encycl. DonationCoder.com is a website hosting a community of programmers and software fans. It supports a donation-based model to organize and finance software development, and is one example of Donationware.

The community develops and finances its own free software, software reviews, podcasts, and a diverse programming school. Funding is accomplished using a grant-like system of micro-donations. All donors to the site receive their donation back as DonationCredits which they can then trade amongst themselves to support different projects and reward activities contributing to the community. The community also fosters collaboration on free services, programming contests, and academic projects. The site has an active forum[2] which focuses on developments in software, and hosts a Programming School section[3] which features challenges in several languages to help motivate people to teach themselves how to program (or learn a new language) and share their creations with others.

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