You can score great savings on several tablets over at Amazon.com, starting with the latest Apple iPad Pro. For instance, you can get up to $200 savings on the 12.9-inch iPad Pro that packs 256GB storage space with WiFi-only support. In other words, you can get yours for just $1,000 after a 17 percent discount. This is amazing, considering that the 128GB storage model now sells for $999 after a $100 discount. The 512GB model is also getting a $100 discount so that you can get one for $1,299.

If you want the smaller 11-inch iPad Pro, you can get $50 savings on the WiFi-only model with 128GB and 256GB storage, leaving them available for $749 and $849. However, you can get $99 savings with you opt for the 512GB variant that can be yours for $1,000. The 1TB and 2TB models are getting $100 savings, so that you can get one for $1,399 and $1,799, respectively. The smaller 10.9-inch iPad Air is also on sale, and you can get yours for $539 after a $60 discount on its 64GB storage model with WiFi-only support.

You can also score nice savings on the previous Kindle model that comes with built-in Front light, and you can get one for $60 after a $30 discount that represents 33 percent savings. You can also pick up the Kindle Paperwhite for $80 after receiving a massive 38 percent discount that will help you save $50. And, if you want a Kindle for your offspring, you can get the Kindle Kids for $70 after a $40 discount. This model comes with a Rainbow Birds Cover and parental controls to give you peace of mind.

You can also set the perfect mood to get lost in your favorite stories with the Philips Hue 548610 CFH Smart Light A19 that’s getting a 15 percent discount, meaning you can grab a 2-pack for $68, which means each of these would cost you $34, or $6 savings per bulb. And you can also opt for the 3-pack that sells for $85 after an initial 26 percent discount that leaves them at $100 and the extra 15 percent savings that will reflect at checkout.

Samuel Martinez

A former bilingual teacher that left the classrooms to join the team of Pocketnow as a news editor and content creator for the Spanish audience. An artist by nature who enjoys video games, guitars,…

In a situation that may be familiar to many TidBITS readers, I’ve recently found myself providing technical assistance to an elderly neighbor—call her Beverly. I suspect that she’s in her 80s, and while she claims otherwise, everything I’ve observed suggests that she’s plenty sharp mentally. What she’s not, however, is expert in the use of her Apple devices: an iPhone 12, a 12-inch iPad Pro, and an Apple Watch Series 6. And she does lose things—on my second visit a few weeks ago, I helped her order a new sport loop-style Apple Watch band so she would be less likely to take the watch off and forget where she’d put it. At the time, I didn’t realize this might be a trend.

Nevertheless, it’s rewarding to help her solve problems and show her what her gear can do for her, partly because doing so gives me insight into places where Apple’s interfaces are confusing or overwhelming for someone like her. And because she thanks me with pie. You can’t go wrong with pie.

Beverly called me Monday in a panic. Over the weekend, she had been at a dog obedience competition with her poodles on the other side of the state, staying overnight at a small hotel. When she got home, she couldn’t find her iPad Pro anywhere, so she assumed that she had left it in the hotel. When she called the hotel, the people at the desk weren’t helpful or reassuring. Hence her phone call to me.

Most of the time, when someone calls me with a problem, they’re overreacting, but there were two facts about her iPad that caused me to worry for real. I hadn’t previously internalized that she traveled with it or I would have said something on my previous visit.

• The iPad’s passcode was 1234, which is so common that the very first person who heard this story interrupted, “And let me guess, her passcode was 1234.” If you or anyone you know has a passcode that’s sequential numbers or all the same number, encourage them to change it immediately—those are way too easy for anyone to guess.
• On the inside flap of her iPad case, she had taped a piece of paper that listed all her passwords. Writing down passwords is far from ideal, but as long as the paper is securely stored, it’s not the end of…