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Recharge during long flights
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By ERIN PHEIL
www.timeforcake.com
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By ERIN PHEIL
www.timeforcake.com
March 23, 2008
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Tech Product of the Week: Inflight Power
I’m not quite sure why it took me oh such a long, long time to figure out the how to recharge my laptop during plane flights, but I suppose that’s water under the bridge now. Better late than never.
Any gadget-user who’s been on a lengthy plane flight before — other than perhaps the lucky folks who always travel first class — knows that there aren’t a whole lot of power outlets around where one can recharge electronic devices.
Enter Inflight Power! Inflight iPod and iPhone chargers? Check. Inflight Game Player Power Unit? Check. Inflight Blackberry charger? Check.
Plug any one of Inflight’s products into the headset jack in your seat’s armrest and you’ll be good to go. Learn more here: http://www.inflightpower.com.
Firefox Extension of the Week: CustomizeGoogle
Install this extension in your Firefox browser and you’ll instantly be able to do some super cool things with your favorite Google applications, including:
• Remove ads from google search results;
• Remove Gmail’s spam folder and invite box;
• Filter out sites that you never ever want to see (ever) again from Google’s search results;
• Remove click tracking;
• Anonymize your Google ID;
• Add favicons in your web search results; and
• Add links to results from other search engines.
Sound like it might be a useful extension for you? Learn more here: http://www.customizegoogle.com.
Grab Bag: Five Links of the Week
• www.orbicule.com — This Belgium-based company is dedicated to the creation of high quality software for Mac OS X. Their main product is called “Undercover” and is a lovely, innovative theft-recovery system that’s enabled Orbicule to recover 96 percent of all their stolen Macs that were connected to the Internet. Cool.
• http://tinyurl.com/38o54z — U-Haul’s Box Exchange “is a messageboard that you can use to trade, sell or buy reusable boxes and moving supplies.” With every reuse of a box, a new box is prevented from entering the cycle.
• http://tinyurl.com/yqpzhn — Available for iGoogle, Netvibes and the Windows Vista sidebar, Activity Tracker is a popular and useful punchclock and time management gadget.
• http://www.booksforafrica.org/ — A nonprofit organization that serves as the largest shipper of donated textbooks to the African continent. Donate money, donate a book, donate to a project, volunteer or just learn more.
• http://drawn.ca — An absolutely fantastic blog and community site for people who love art, illustration, and cartooning.
And that’s it for today, everyone. Have a great week, and see ya next Monday.
Based in Frisco, eRin pheiL is the primary creative force behind timeforcake. Learn more about her Colorado website design company at www.timeforcake.com or contact her via e-mail at info@timeforcake.com.
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