CNET’s Cheapskate scours the web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. Find more great buys on the CNET Deals page and follow the Cheapskate on Facebook and Twitter! Enlarge Image Viva Alexa! Roav I’m back! Hope everyone had a wonderful week. …
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CNET’s Cheapskate scours the web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. Find more great buys on the CNET Deals page and follow the Cheapskate on Facebook and Twitter! Let your fingers do the unlocking with the biometric Tapplock. Photo by Rick Broida/CNET Cheeps! I’m still on …
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CNET’s Cheapskate scours the web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. Find more great buys on the CNET Deals page and follow the Cheapskate on Facebook and Twitter! Desk goes up, desk goes down. Desk goes up, desk goes down. VersaDesk Cheeps! I’m on leave till …
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Here we go again. Another day, another security breach. This time it’s Under Armour’s MyFitnessPal, the popular fitness app. The company reported Thursday that some 150 million MyFitnessPal accounts had been compromised by an “unauthorized party.” Translation: It’s time to change your password. And this isn’t optional; the company is requiring all users to take this step. However, you can’t …
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Apple went “back to school” earlier today, but unless you were in attendance at the Lane Tech College Prep High School on Chicago’s north side, you missed all the fun. That fun included a new iPad with iPad Pro-level specs but plain-Jane-iPad pricing ($329 in the US, £319 in the UK, AU$469 in Australia) and a 200GB iCloud option for …
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Here’s a common practice: You open an existing document in Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint, make some changes to it, then save it using a different filename. That leaves the original alone, but gives you a modified copy. Just one problem: Microsoft’s Office 365 no longer works that way. Because of an incomprehensible change pushed out not long ago, any …
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CNET’s Cheapskate scours the web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. Find more great buys on the CNET Deals page and follow the Cheapskate on Facebook and Twitter! Enlarge Image Meet the new iPad price; same as the old iPad price. (Unless you’re a school, in …
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CNET’s Cheapskate scours the web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. Find more great buys on the CNET Deals page and follow the Cheapskate on Facebook and Twitter! Anki Overdrive: Fast & Furious Edition keeps it all about the cars. Ian Knighton/CNET When I was a …
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CNET’s Cheapskate scours the web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. Find more great buys on the CNET Deals page and follow the Cheapskate on Facebook and Twitter! Enlarge Image The new Dell XPS 13 offers a nearly bezel-free screen. Sarah Tew/CNET Happy Friday, cheeps! A …
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Facebook is having a rough week. The world’s largest social network has come under fire for allowing researchers to mine personal data and then use that data for political ads that may have influenced the 2016 election. Needless to say, that may pose a problem for people who still want to stay connected with friends and family, but feel Facebook …
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