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. I haven’t shared a desktop deal in many moons — in part because I don’t see them very often, and in part because I think most people use …
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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. Time for a rerun! Don’t worry, this isn’t an episode of “Seinfeld” you’ve seen 18 times (not that there’s anything wrong with that), but rather one of my favorite laptop deals of the …
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You know that watch you love? The one that looks cool and never needs winding? Too bad all it does is tell time. You could get a smartwatch, sure, but then you’d have to abandon the watch you really like for one that, maybe, you aren’t so fond of. Kickstarter project Trivoly aims to turn “dumb” watches into smart ones. …
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The Internet is trying to ruin “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” Every day seems to bring more (and more detailed) news, rumors, photos and trailer dissections, to the point where it’s almost impossible to avoid spoilers. So what’s my option? Stay off Facebook, Twitter and just about every blog and news site until December 18? Please. Instead, I’ve installed Spoiler …
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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. Enlarge Image At $34, the Martian Notifier is a must-buy. Martian If you’re a regular around these parts, you know how I feel about smartwatches. I won’t pay $350 for one, I won’t …
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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. Regular readers know that I’m not a fan of subscription anything, especially certain subscriptions from certain large companies. But this is almost too good to pass up. Enlarge Image More bundles like this, …
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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. Hey, remember that Roku 3 box you bought the other day? Maybe you can wrap it up and gift it to someone this December. Why? Because this: For a limited time, and while …
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When you think about it, there’s a lot of unused space on the back of your phone. So why not put something useful on that empty slab of case, like a couple buttons that can instantly perform common tasks? That’s the idea behind Air Button, an NFC-powered shortcut button that can be configured to do all sorts of things: call …
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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. Enlarge Image Ricoh If you want to print in color, inkjet printers have always been the necessary evil: They’re way less expensive than color lasers, or at least it seems that way until …
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I’m an avid fan of both quadcopters and startup pitch TV show “Shark Tank,” so when the two came together last week, I was eager to see the outcome. I never expected a feeding a frenzy. All five “sharks” took a stake in xCraft, a company with one drone in production, the X PlusOne, and another now on Kickstarter, the …
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