What has the back of your phone done for you lately? Probably not much. There’s a lot of unused real estate back there, which makes you wonder why phone makers — other than LG — don’t add programmable shortcut buttons. How about one for the flashlight? One to launch the camera? One to speed-dial your …
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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 Verizon’s Star Wars promo freebies aren’t bad at all. Scott Stein/CNET I saw Star Wars at the tender age of 9, …
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The only thing better than watching “Star Wars”? Actually visiting a galaxy far, far away, of course. And the best way to do that (for now, at least) is by strapping on a virtual-reality headset. Good news: For a limited time, Verizon stores are giving away free Star Wars-themed Google Cardboard VR headsets. If you don’t have a store close …
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The PowerPoint presentation remains a staple of business life — a boring, easy-to-forget staple. How can you hope to get your point across when your audience’s eyes start glazing over at slide one? Presentation-builder Emaze thinks it has the answer: Automaze, a new feature that imports existing PowerPoint files and turns them into themed, animated “journeys.” If that sounds 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. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. Enlarge Image This is the real deal, vinyl fans. Pro-Ject I grew up listening to records, then cassette tapes, then CDs and finally …
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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. Whew! Another Black Friday (OK, Black Entire-Month-of-November) on the books. Time to get back to business as usual — awesome deals every day, …
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One big reason the Roku 3 is my favorite streaming box: the remote. It has a headphone jack you can plug into when you want to watch TV without disturbing others. Wireless TV audio streamed right to the clicker: genius! Turns out there’s also an app for that. Tunity streams TV audio to your smartphone. It’s free, it works pretty …
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Here’s something I don’t get about Black Friday and the entire month leading up to it: When stores “leak” their ads, they’re telegraphing the deals — meaning no one is going to buy any given product in the weeks leading up to Black Friday. And then if that product sells out, they’re going to go away mad. I’m no marketing …
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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. Howdy, cheeps! I hope you enjoyed your holiday as much as I did. New York, you certainly know how to put on 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. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. Enlarge Image Woot Well, folks, as I bid you goodbye until Friday, let me wish you a safe and happy Thanksgiving. It may …
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