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. Inatech As I mentioned earlier this week, it’s time to rethink the way we charge our mobile devices. Modern phones and tablets just can’t get enough power from …
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If you’ve recently purchased a new PC, perhaps one running Windows 10, you may be working at a higher screen resolution than you’re used to. That’s also a possibility if you’ve upgraded to a new monitor. Whatever the case, it’s not uncommon to fire up your browser and find yourself wondering why all your favorite Web sites look a little …
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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 ImageYep, it’s an antenna. Mohu Ah, the good old days, when candy bars were a quarter and TV was free. Now I have to pay $1.29 for my Twix fix? Come on! …
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As you learned a few months back in there are iPhone cases that can pay for things, iPhone cases with built-in headphones, even iPhone cases that pack an extra SIM card for when you travel overseas. Oh, and who can forget the iPhone stun-gun case? Even with options as diverse as those, I’ll bet you never saw this coming: Lenzcase …
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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. Let’s get the week started off right, shall we? With a multi-deal Monday! A low-price GoPro alternative GoPro is the Apple of action cams: great hardware, but painfully expensive. In the past I’ve …
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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 Solove I’m back! Good heavens, California is beautiful. Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Cambria, Carmel…I think I know where I’m going to retire. (Now if I could just win the lottery. …
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For many users, Dropbox is the go-to tool for storing and sharing files, photos, music and the like. Put simply, it keeps everything under one roof. Well, almost everything. Until a couple days ago, Dropbox didn’t support one particular form of data: Web links. But thanks to a new update, now you can add URLs to your Dropbox account almost …
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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. Accessory Power Hi, cheeps! Just a reminder that I’m on vacation this week (hence no bonus deals, which are harder to cook up in advance). Although I’ve served up tasty deals all week, …
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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 ImageWin it! Thonet & Vander The Cheapskate is traveling this week (hello, California!) but fear not: I’ve left behind some great deals and, for today, a contest! Everyone knows that Bluetooth speakers …
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Microsoft How many photos do you have in your phone? Hundreds? Thousands, even? I bet you’d hate to lose them. And yet phones get lost, stolen and broken every day. Are you playing it safe? Apple’s iCloud affords a backup of sorts, but doesn’t really give you a way to access your photos via anything except other iDevices. (You can’t …
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