Kitchen Compy Update

Caring Compy has been hard at work in optimizing our prototype iMac G3 Kitchen Compy. The system is far more robust and faster than ever before. Here is the list of features it can do:

• Browses the web
• Watches videos
• Instant Messages
• Listens to online radio
• Manages your music library
• Checks email
• Connects to your home's existing wireless network
• Plays media from networked devices
• Rips CDs

Caring Compy has paired up with Southeastern Data in the effort to save these lovely iMac G3s from the salvage yard by giving them new life and use. We have provided Southeastern Data with an installed machine that they will be able to clone and make available to the public. They in turn have donated an iMac G3 to us with the promise of more things to come. If you are interested in getting one of these machines, please contact Jon Rutishauser at Southeastern Data.

http://www.southeasterndata.com/

Also, special thanks goes to David Lanham. He is a talented artist and has agreed to let us use his art as the default desktop wallpaper. Thank you David.

More images can be see on our Flickr page.

Much Needed RAM Received

We would like to give a big thank-you to Homer Lindsey for donating RAM to us. This is an item that we are always in need of, especially the harder to find older RAM. This donation will be put to good use. Thank you Homer! If you are interested in seeing a list of items that we currently need, please visit our Needed Items page.

An apple fell from the tree and landed on Caring Compy

Tara Baker, a graphic artist in Orlando FL, donated this beautiful 12 inch Powerbook G4 to Caring Compy yesterday. The first person we find in need of a laptop is getting this little beauty as it will run OS X Leopard quite nicely.

Thank you Tara for your generosity.

Links:

• Tara's LinkedIn Page

A Generous Donation

Homer Lindsey of Orlando, FL has given two fully functional computers to Caring Compy. Thank you, Homer. We will find good homes for them.

Caring Compy is for Realz!

Caring Compy is now a real company! We received our federal ID a few weeks ago and are now a legitimate corporation. Now we are in the process of filing for our 501C3. Thanks again for all the support and generosity from everyone involved. We look forward to a bright future.

Magic Jack "Phone Server"

Caring Compy got to partake in an interesting project recently. A coworker of Caring Compy founder Chris Jones, Kurt Meister of Orlando, received some assistance to save on his phone bill. There's a little device called a Magic Jack which gives him phone access for around $20 a year. We had received some old laptops a while back and we used a Pentium 2 IBM Thinkpad as a dedicated "Magic Jack Server" so he could have a true land line with uninterrupted phone service. A picture of the lappy can be seen below. More can be seen on Flickr.

Hope For All Gets A True Classroom Setup!

Thanks to the support and donations we've received, Caring Compy was able to really come through for Hope For All Learning Center in Orlando, FL. They now have an easy to manage classroom computer setup that makes great use of older hardware, and is loaded with educational software.

As described in this previous post, they have been given an LTSP server and 3 thin clients. The other two computers given to them previously will be converted to thin clients as well.

Thanks again to everyone involved for all the support. As can be seen below, the kids love it.




See more photos!

New Digs

The operations for Caring Compy has moved. The pictures below really show the amount of support we've received. Thanks again so much. We're in the process of planning our next move to get all these machines out the door to those who need them.

An update from headquarters

First off,

Good news!!! Caring Compy has reached inventory capacity, which is a wonderful thing! We'd like to thank all of our donors for your generous and selfless contributions. Your support has been amazing and we couldn't have done it without you.

We ask now that you hold off on any additional donations so we can “catch up” with your generosity and find new homes for our current inventory. We will update the website as soon as we are in need of more equipment. Thanks again for keeping us busy :)

What's new?

We are in the process of incorporating and hope to have our 501(c)(3) status within six months. We are excited to be a registered non-profit company as it will assist us in our fundraising and public relations efforts.

We are soon-to-be in the process of recruiting volunteers to become part of our family. Our business has us all pretty busy and we realize that as the business expands, our employee family also needs to grow. Please take a look at our website in (August?) and see where you can help out, we'd love to have you on board!

Caring Compy is again thankful for everyone's support and we look forward to a bright future!

Warm regards,

The Caring Compy family

Another Donation

Brian LeGros from Melbourne, FL has given Caring Compy these three lovely towers and some hard drives. Thanks very much for your donation, Brian. We'll put them to good use.