Now playing: Watch this: The easy way to check if a phone is lost or stolen 1:04 Planning to buy a used iPhone or iPad? If you’re buying it from an individual, whether locally or from a source like Ebay, things just got a little trickier. Enlarge Image Where have you gone, Activation Lock checker? …
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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. Mint SIM Back in November I told you about Mint SIM, a T-Mobile-powered MVNO with a different proposition than most: big discounts if …
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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. Follow the Cheapskate on Twitter for more deals and deal updates. Dell Today’s deal is really a main deal and two bonus deals, …
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Sometimes I can’t figure Microsoft out. There I am, working peacefully in Windows 10 ($144 at Amazon), when all of a sudden there’s a pop-up notification ripping my browser of choice (Google Chrome). See, apparently Chrome is worse for battery life than Microsoft’s Edge browser. And Firefox doesn’t block malware as well. Oh, and if I switch to Edge, I …
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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. This little flier is cute, fast and fun. JJRC This is a rerun of a deal I first shared back in November. Now …
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Common scenario: You buy a new laptop, thinking you’ll sell, donate or hand down the old one… but it never happens. Maybe you don’t want to deal with the hassles of Craigslist or Ebay, not to mention wiping all your data, reinstalling Windows and so on. Whatever the case, now it’s just taking up space. But it doesn’t have 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. Logitech Let’s keep it simple today, shall we? If you’re a laptop user, a mouse is a must. Trying to get any real …
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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. You know that store Five Below? Welcome to Ten Below. Today I’ve rounded up an eclectic batch of deals, each priced at $10 …
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Here’s FamilyTreeNow.com’s promise: “100 percent free family tree and geneaology research.” Sounds good, right? Well known sites such as Ancestry.com charge you, but FamilyTreeNow is completely free. But it’s not a genealogy site. Rather, it’s masquerading as one, when it’s really a people-search tool similar to Peoplefinders and Spokeo. However, those sites charge for their services, and that’s where FamilyTreeNow …
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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 Monoprice The universe is weird sometimes. Yesterday I was searching the interwebs for a part I needed for my Micro 3D …
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