I love Lenovo/IBM/Thinkpad to death. I’ll write more about their laptops soon, but for now I’m going to talk about this new power adapter.

My old one broke in Panama, so as soon as I got to the US I ordered this one. Shipped overnight, it was expensive but worth every penny.

It’s very thin, which makes it easy to pack. Just wedge it in next to something else. I had a similarly shaped one from Targus many years ago but it broke and I could never find a replacement.

Even though it’s super thin it can also be used in cars and airplanes, unlike my other one. This would have been very useful on my trip to Tokyo, but United Airways doesn’t have power jacks for some reason.

You can also buy an adapter to simultaneously power a phone or mp3 player.

If you have a thinkpad (it even works with the older ones), get this thing. It’s great.

AI Roboform is an awesome piece of software. When I tried out MacOS for a few days the one and only program I missed was Roboform.

Roboform has two main functions which are totally separate.

1. It automatically fills forms on the web for you. You put in your name, address, phone number, age, etc. and it will fill out any form on any page with just one click. This is insanely helpful for doing things like signing up for forums or buying things online. You can even put multiple addresses.

2. It remembers all of your login information for every site. When I tell people about this they invariably say “Yeah, firefox does that automatically.”

It’s very different, though. Roboform also remembers the login page, so you just click the name of the site you want to go to and it goes there and logs you in in one step. VERY convenient.

The whole thing is password protected and encrypted, so you don’t have to worry about anyone else seeing your info. It can be used on Firefox, Internet Explorer, or many smartphones.

There’s also a feature called SafeNotes which lets you keep short notes in the same place that are password protected. I use this for things like my Fedex # and frequent flyer numbers.

You can try a free trial at Roboform