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Q&A: Can you recommend a wall charger that’ll charge all our devices at once?

Posted on September 15, 2019

Question from Leonard Q.: Rick, I’m in the market for a wall charger that’ll charge 4 devices at once, two of them being power-hungry tablets.

My wife and I travel together frequently on business, and we hate carrying 4 chargers along with us (actually, 6 counting the chargers for our laptops).

What we need to charge from this one charger are two iPads and two Samsung Galaxy smart phones. It would also help if the charger is as small as possible. What do you recommend?

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How to save ink, paper and money when printing web pages

Posted on September 15, 2019

If you print a lot of web pages you know how much expensive ink and paper gets wasted by printing website headers, sidebars, irrelevant images and other items that really have no connection whatsoever with the content you actually want to print.

A free print tool called PrintFriendly will let you print only the items on the page that you really wish to print while omitting the rest.

It works great, it’s extremely easy to use, and it’s free. What could be better than that? [Read more…]

How to prevent Chrome from storing your credit card info (and remove any cards that are already stored)

Posted on September 14, 2019

Do you use Google’s popular Chrome web browser to shop online?

If so, Chrome’s auto-fill feature has probably stored your credit card and/or debit card information in the browser.

Allowing Chrome to store your card info can be a real time saver if you do a lot of online shopping, but unfortunately it can also be a huge security risk.

If your card info is stored in the browser, anyone who happens to gain access to your computer will be able to make online purchases using your credit or debit card.

And yes, that includes any hackers who can manage to remotely take over your computer!

This is why I don’t allow Chrome to store my password info

If you agree that it’s a bad idea, you can easily turn off credit card auto-fill and remove any cards that are already stored there. Just follow the steps below.

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Swap your unwanted smartphone, laptop and other electronic items for an Amazon gift card

Posted on September 14, 2019

If you’re like most people you could probably use a little extra money every now and then to buy someone a gift or something that you need yourself.

Well, Amazon has a great way to turn your unwanted electronic items into extra cash (in the form of a gift card) that you can spend for absolutely anything that Amazon sells.

It called the Amazon Trade-In Program, and it’s great! [Read more…]