TV not included. Apple Just when you thought Apple TV was dead in the water, Apple lowered the price of its set-top box, struck an exclusive deal with HBO and started adding new channels. Is there more to come? That’s the question. And if there is, will you need a new Apple TV box to …

White gold: The Acer Chromebook C720P is a steal at $179.99. Acer Which would you rather have in a sub-$200 laptop: a bigger screen that doesn’t respond to touch or a smaller screen that does? I ask because in the past, I’ve shared similarly priced deals on Chromebooks that had 13- or even 14-inch screens, but that weren’t finger-friendly. Today, …

Future Illuminations Like most mammals, I like shiny, flashy things. And things that glow. If they can flash and glow at the same time, so much the better. Today only, and while supplies last, Ellumiglow has the Future Illuminations Remyx LED sound-synchronized earphones for $25 shipped. That’s after applying coupon code nojoke — because this ain’t no April Fool — …

Screenshot by Rick Broida/CNET If you’re routinely on the receiving end of Word documents and have a current version of Microsoft Office, you may have noticed something: Whenever you open one of these file attachments or downloads, Word opens in something called Protected View. This is, believe it or not, a feature, even if it comes across an annoyance. By …

Gmail’s new All Inboxes option view shows you all your mail from all your accounts. Google Do you have more than one email address? These days, nearly everyone does — and it’s not uncommon to manage three, four or even more. Unfortunately, for Android users relying on the stock Gmail app, multiple mail accounts means lots of extra tapping as …

Toshiba Is that a one-terabyte hard drive in your pocket, or are you just happy to see this deal? Today only, and while supplies last, Amazon has the Toshiba Canvio Basics 1TB portable USB 3.0 hard drive for $49.99, shipped. It lists for twice as much and sells elsewhere for at least $10 more. As you can see from the …

Muvee A common problem: you’ve captured a daunting digital pile of photos and videos from a wedding, birthday party, vacation, drone flight, trail ride or the like, and now you want to assemble everything into a slick, polished movie. Welcome to the not-so-wonderful world of video editing — a slow, laborious process that often involves complicated, expensive software. Not today! …

The Neo N2 smartpen, shown here with the Livescribe 3 and Equil Smartpen 2. Photo by Rick Broida/CNET The NeoLab Neo N2 smartpen debuted on Kickstarter about eight months ago, where it smashed its $20,000 funding goal and raised nearly $360,000. Although backers have already received their pens, the N2 officially went on sale earlier this week. The big question: …

Sol Republic Given the choice between cheap headphones that sound decent and premium headphones on sale for cheap, which would you take? I think most of us would opt for the latter, which is why I’m grateful to reader Chris for sharing this deal — one I otherwise might not have spotted. While supplies last, and ending March 31, Motorola …

Dynex Two things every HDTV owner must do: disable whatever settings lead to the dreadful soap-opera effect, and add at least one external speaker. Because, let’s face it, regardless of how big or small your TV is or how cheap or expensive it was, its built-in speakers sound terrible. Luckily, just about any sound bar will make a huge difference …