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Green Power – The way forward

July 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Powerfreakz Solar Charger reviewNext time you are in the office take a look and see how many hand held devices are on charge. In our office just now we have three mobiles as well as the trusty digital camera and an iPod plugged in all using power when they probably don’t need to.

That’s why when WhatsGoodOnTheWeb was asked to take a look at the Powerfreakz 2500solar portable charger we jumped at the chance. Basically this is a solar charging station for your mobile or ipod, it comes with all the relevant adaptors so you can plug it in to practically anything.

The cost of the charger is about £49.99 which is a little pricey when you can just plug your phone in the wall but this does not account for how much it costs to charge a mobile. We found an article online that said it costs up to 8 pence a time to charge a mobile so every year your mobile costs you about £30 to charge.

If you use the Powerfreakz 2500every day you could save a small fortune and don’t forget that by using a solar charger you are also helping the environment so we think this is an essential item for every travellers kitbag.

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Green shopping that saves money

August 29, 2008 By 1 Comment

Kelkoo Environmental Room

Kelkoo is a well known price comparison web site and in fact we used it only the other morning to find a new coffee machine for the office. The best thing about the site is saving you the time so you don’t go to every web site on the net just one.

Launched on Wednesday (27 August) Kelkoo have now entered the green revolution with the launch of an environmental room (CLICK HERE TO OPEN SITE) – aimed at helping you save money by looking for green products the page has an energy calculator and lists a series of products that are energy efficient (green) and save money.

On the downside we did a very simple search “light bulbs” in the main section of the site and were disappointed to see that energy efficient bulbs were not listed first. Obviously Kelkoo have received awards for their Green initiatives but it is not possible to put some obvious green recommendations first ??? After all they have popularity and cost as the listing options – why not green?

Overall we have always liked Kelkoo – yes they get a payment if you follow the links but just think of the time you can save – no more surfing for hours and you can actually find some pretty good bargains.

Three stars for Kelkoo on this one – the environmental room is a good idea and we’d love it to be an option on the main site search. Just maybe someone will take notice and introduce this in the future.

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Save money as you shop

July 11, 2008 By Leave a Comment

www.quidco.com

For starters if you buy anything on the Internet you should know about cashback sites. They give you the opportunity to receive a percentage of what you pay back and the best (and probably the most comprehensive ) of these is Qudco.

The process is really simple, sign up for a free account and go shopping. All you need to do is follow the links to your favourite web sites through Quidco and once you have completed a transaction you will receive some of the money back. It can take up to a month for the cash back to show on your account but it can be really beneficial. Our own editor bought his car insurance using the site and saved £100.

What’s the catch? – there isn’t one really. The only thing is that Quidco retain the first £5 you earn back each year but apart from that no charge.

If you are really smart one of the best money saving ways to use the site is a s follows:

That way you double your cash back. Not bad really.

There are a number of others around on the web so here is a link to a list of all the cash back sites we can find so far. I will be reviewing others individually in the future.

For now Quidco gets four stars – it’s free and it helps the pocket but the design is not brilliant.

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