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. BYO phone and speakers. PricePlunge Boy, you’d think Google just about reinvented the wheel with all the fuss over Chromecast Audio, a little gadget that plugs into traditional …
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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 CNET I don’t know how long these will last, so I’m going to skip my usual amusing anecdote, personal history, razor-sharp insight or other throat-clearing and just get right to the …
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As everyone knows, trolls ruin the Internet. (You know who you are.) But even a comments section not filled with haters can be a detriment, simply because of the bandwidth require to load it. If you’re using a desktop Web browser, there are any number of ways to block the comments sections on sites like YouTube and Politico. But mobile …
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Is it time to start blocking AdBlock? Screenshot by Rick Broida/CNET 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 interrupt your regularly scheduled Cheapskatery to bring you this important announcement: Web ads are not evil. Please, put down your torches …
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Are you running Windows 10 on a brand-new PC? Or did you upgrade one that’s eight years old? Maybe something in between? Whatever your PC’s origin story, there are ways to make it faster. And I don’t mean faster at crunching complex spreadsheets or processing mammoth Photoshop edits; I’m talking about speedier startup, shutdown and Start-menu access. You know, the …
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Shot Virtual reality — VR for short — is rapidly shaping up to be the Next Big Thing, with products ranging from Google Cardboard to Oculus Rift to Samsung’s new Gear VR promising amazing virtual experiences. Of course, if you want to produce, rather than just watch, your own VR content, it’s going to cost a small fortune, right? Even …
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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 ImageHello, gorgeous. LG When the LG Watch Urbane made its debut earlier this year, many reviewers swooned over its gorgeous styling and dazzling display. Of course, it’s a premium watch, so it …
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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 TigerDirect Hey, is it Black Friday already? Sure feels like it, because… For a limited time, and while supplies last, TigerDirect has the HKC Innoview 24-inch LED monitor for $79.99, plus …
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Every since I updated to iOS 9, my iPhone has been spying on me. OK, maybe not “spying,” but it seems awfully interested in where I’m going. Or where it thinks I’m going. Because now, whenever I’m out and about, the Maps app coughs up notifications about traffic. In other words, after I’m done at, say, the post office and …
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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. You know the old saw: If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Today’s deal sounds too good to be true. And, yet, although there are a couple small caveats, …
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