FREE STORAGE FOR CHROMEBOOKS

Posted on February 8th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach

We’ve written about Google Chromebooks, a laptop for surfing the web and answering email. They cost around $200 and now they throw in a terabyte of free storage for two years.

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A BETTER PLUG-IN

Posted on February 8th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach

The “Power Tap” is a wall plug-in charger that looks like a faucet. Turn the tap when you want to power your gadget. We like this a lot. Joy is always hunting for the charging cable for her iPad Mini. Now she can just leave it plugged in without wasting power. We’d be even happier if it had two USB ports, one for the phone and one for the iPad. Then we’d never have to search for the right cable. The Power Tap is $27.50 from AeroPostale.com. (Clothing apparently is a sideline.) You can also find something similar by searching on the key words “Power Tap.” When we tried that, it came up for $10 on Amazon.

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