Online shopping has many benefits
According to Adobe’s Digital Index forecast, the combined take for online purchases made on Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday (that’s today) will be in the neighborhood of $6.5 billion this year — up substantially from 2013.
The robust growth is not surprising when you consider how easy it is to shop online, especially compared with what you must endure to shop the traditional way, by getting in the car and driving downtown or to a mall.
Online shopping also can save you money, but you need to be diligent.
Many large stores now charge sales tax on items they sell online to customers in California, but smaller sellers with no physical presence in the state may not charge sales tax.
The only national electronics chain still standing is Best Buy, and it offers a limited selection of computers, tablets and cameras at its stores.
LeapFrog (www.leapfrog.com), Nabi (www.nabitablet.com), Kurio (www.kurioworld.com) and even Tesco, the big British retailer, sell durable tablets for the preteen set.
Most come with learning and entertainment apps, and feature parental controls to shield kids from age-inappropriate Internet content.
There’s no proof that a tablet can accelerate learning, and even if it does, the long-term benefit is questionable.
[...] there are a couple of ways.
The easiest is to open the page in Chrome, go to Settings (the three vertical dots at the top right side of the screen), then choose “Add to homescreen.”
Press the Action button at the bottom of the screen (it’s a rectangle with an arrow pointing upward).
