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. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. With an effective price of $3.75 per pair, this 4-pack is too good to pass up. Samsung Yesterday’s …
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User reviews are the internet’s gift to consumerism. When you want to know if a product or destination is worth your time and money, you can see what others had to say about it. That kind of crowdsourced opinion-sharing simply wasn’t available pre-internet. Just one problem: Not all user reviews are legitimate. A restaurant owner, for example, might try to …
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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. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. Enlarge Image MileUp includes challenges you can complete to earn extra points. Drive, drive, drive! Screenshot by Rick Broida/CNET Want to make money …
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Ask any iPhone owner for a wish-list of improvements and I guarantee “better battery life” will be at the top. It just seems like there’s never enough juice. That’s in part because we use our phones all day, and in part because batteries just wear out over time. That’s one reason I recommend keeping a mobile charger close at hand. …
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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. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. Hello, handsome! Accessory Power Quick reminder: You’ve still got time to enter for your chance to win a Canary home-security camera! True to …
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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. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. Enlarge Image Lenovo About yesterday: Big goof on my part. I thought the Y3 smartwatch ran Android Wear, when in fact it’s powered …
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What’s the single best way to upgrade a laptop? Easy: Take out the mechanical hard drive and replace it with a solid-state drive (SSD). You’ll enjoy faster performance, longer battery life, cooler running temperature (which may extend the overall life of the laptop) and even quieter operation: SSDs have no moving parts and therefore run completely silent. Ah, but what …
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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. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. Enlarge Image The Y3 smartwatch is really pretty, even in real life, though way thicker than it appears here. Tomtop Once again I’m …
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Nothing makes me happier than resurrecting an old, slow, useless Windows PC by installing Linux on it. The result is a system that will almost always run faster, with almost zero chance of malware infections, and that affords all the computing basics. (Many of the latest computing advances, too.) Before you begin, read my tips on choosing a Linux distro, …
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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. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. Enlarge Image Screenshot by Rick Broida/CNET Don’t go to college.” That’s a recommendation frequently espoused by author, podcaster and self-help guru James Altucher, …
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