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The best Kindle for kids hits its lowest price, just in time for summer
Amazon’s kid-focused version of the Kindle Paperwhite is on sale right now at a price that matches its last Black Friday deal price! That means you can score the Kindle Paperwhite Kids for just $140 (was $180) and have it ready for tons of fun-filled summer reading ahead! You know as much as I do that getting our kids away from their digital screens is hard enough, doubly so when summer vacation hits. But maybe it’s not so bad if that digital screen is used for reading books? Especially with a device that has a gentle-on-the-eyes e-ink display that helps to provide a more immersive reading experience? This Kindle Paperwhite Kids deal is a fantastic opportunity for both parents and kids. With its large 7-inch display, this e-reader has plenty of screen real estate for comfortable reading without being so big that it’s a pain to carry around. The glare-free, e-ink technology makes it as close in feel to reading actual ink on paper, too, and it’s good in all lighting conditions. This is the latest model, by the way, which is the thinnest yet and the most responsive when it comes to page turns. The cherry on top of the Kindle Paperwhite Kids is that it comes with a child-friendly cover and a 2-year worry-free warranty with a free no-questions-asked replacement if your child breaks it, plus 6 complimentary months of Amazon Kids+, a digital subscription service with unlimited access to thousands of age-appropriate ebooks. No matter how you slice it, this world-class e-reader is a gift to both you and your kid—and now’s the best time to get one with summer rearing its head and the price down to its all-time best. Snag the Kindle Paperwhite Kids for just $140 while this limited-time deal is still available! The latest Kindle Paperwhite Kids is at its best sale price againBuy now at Amazon

This fast, foldable USB-C wall plug with 4 ports is 40% off today
Who has the time to wait around while their phone trickle charges? Not me, and not you. That’s why it’s so essential these days to have a fast charging block that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg—like this Ugreen 65W 4-device USB-C wall plug that’s on sale for just $25.79 on Amazon, a lovely 40% discount on its original $43 price. This GaN charger is super fast and perfectly suitable for smartphones, tablets, handheld gaming consoles, and even some MacBook models. Providing up to 65W of charging power, it’s able to refill the battery on a MacBook Air M2 about halfway in just 30 minutes. The GaN technology makes it smaller, faster, and more power efficient than previous USB charging blocks, and this one has additional protections against overvoltage, overcurrent, short circuits, and extreme temps. Three of the four ports on this charger are USB-C while the fourth one is USB-A. Note that the total 65W throughput of this block is for a single active left-side USB-C port. You can charge multiple devices at once, but the charging power will be split (and thus slower) between them. Still, it’s plenty fast even with two or three simultaneously. And the plug on this block is foldable, so it’s especially nice for traveling—just toss it into a bag without worrying about it getting damaged or scratching anything. This fast charging 4-port Ugreen wall plug is a win for $25.79 and a must-have for any home or office that’s still fumbling about with numerous, chunky, last-gen power adapters that are slower than snails. Snag it while you can because this 40% discount won’t stick around forever! Score this fast charging 4-device USB-C wall plug for just $26Buy now at Amazon

Meet Sdelete, the obscure Microsoft tool that wipes data for good
When you delete a file from your computer, it’s not really gone. In fact, it can often be recovered with the right tools. That’s where Sdelete comes in. Sdelete is short for Secure Delete and it permanently wipes files by overwriting them–sometimes multiple times, which makes recovery virtually impossible. This tool is part of the Sysinternals suite from Mark Russinovich, which now belongs to Microsoft. It works according to the Clearing and Sanitizing standard DOD 5220.22-M of the US Department of Defense. This is how it works via the command line: The tool comes in a zip archive and offers the command sdelete after unpacking. For this command to work in the Windows command prompt in any directory, it must be located in a folder that is part of the Windows path variable Path. The easiest way is to copy the contents of the archive to the folder C:\Windows. Now call up the command prompt by pressing the key combination Win-R and entering cmd. This action starts the command prompt, in which you enter the command sdelete to delete files or folders. The Sdelete command line program from Sysinternals Tools allows you to permanently delete files and folders.IDG For example, if you want to delete the file “Document1.docx, enter the following: sdelete -p 3 [path]\Document1.docx Please replace [path] with the location of the file, including the drive letter, such as N:\files. The -p 3 indicates the number of overwrites. In this case, there are three. If you want to delete a folder, including all subfolders and files contained in it, such as the Temp folder, specify your parameters as follows: sdelete -p 3 -s [path]\Temp The -s parameter also deletes the subfolders. The -r parameter is also interesting: this removes the write protection attribute before deleting the file. Otherwise, there would be error messages for protected files. The freeware Sdelete-Gui offers simple user guidance for the command line tool Sdelete. It adds the “Secure Delete” command to the Windows Explorer context menu.IDG Sdelete can also overwrite the entire free space on a drive. The process securely deletes all remaining files. You can perform the deletion by using the parameter -z. If the free space on drive C: is to be overwritten, the command looks like this: sdelete -z C: Depending on the size of the drive, it may take some time for the command to complete. Delete with user guidance: For those who find the command prompt too cumbersome, there is user guidance for the sdelete command. We call the tool Sdelete-Gui. When you start it for the first time, it asks you how often you want sdelete to overwrite a file and then suggests ten times. That’s a lot. Three times is also very reliable. Click on Enable to set the desired number and close the window with the X in the top right-hand corner. You will now find the Secure delete command in the Windows Explorer context menu. Select the file or files you want to securely delete and right-click on them. In Windows 11, first select Show more options and then Secure delete. Attention: Sdelete will immediately delete the data without prompting you. Please note that Sdelete deletes your data reliably. Once you use the command, there is no way to restore them. You should therefore use Sdelete with caution.