“Mr. Data, prepare to separate the saucer section.” Acer It’s a laptop. No it’s a tablet! It’s two, two, two computers in one! In other words, it’s a hybrid. And very often those jacks-of-two-trades are a master of none. Today’s deal, however, appears to rate pretty well on both fronts. For a limited time, and …

Newegg Before I forget, you still have a chance to win some sweet D-Link smart-home gear. A couple clicks and presto, you’re entered! Sometimes I wonder what long-gone inventors would think of our modern society. Like if the Wright brothers could see a 747, for example, or Johannes Gutenberg could see today’s deal. For a limited time, and while supplies …

Be My Eyes Want to do a good deed? A really good deed? Pull out your smartphone and spend a few minutes helping a blind person. The brainchild of Hans Jørgen Wiberg, Be My Eyes is an iPhone app (coming soon for Android) that lets you lend your eyesight to someone who needs a little assistance. Screenshot by Rick Broida/CNET …

Just a sampling of Freegal’s DRM-free MP3s available to many library card-holders. Screenshot by Rick Broida/CNET Tim Cook: “You didn’t like our U2 album giveaway? Fine. No tunes for you!” OK, Apple’s head honcho never said that, but perhaps he thought it. Because after 11 years of offering a free iTunes “Single of the Week,” Apple appears to have pulled …

Left: Backup way to access File Explorer. Right: Easy way to restore File Explorer. Screenshot by Rick Broida/CNET I consider File Explorer an essential component of Windows, so much so that I never understood why Microsoft didn’t make it a more prominent part of the OS. In fact, it was only recently that Explorer earned a long-overdue spot on the …

Yes. Yes, yes, yes. RAVPower All mobile chargers are created equal, right? Wrong. They come in lots of different shapes and sizes, of course, with different battery capacities that determine how much juice you can wring out for your mobile devices. And the vast majority are standalone power bricks, requiring cables not just for charging your phone, tablet, or whatever, …

Clear your weekend, because you’re about to get really busy playing games, listening to tunes, configuring a universal remote and more. Yep, it’s another five-deal Friday! Because sometimes one deal just won’t do… 1. What’s in a name? Blumoo Let’s address the elephant in the room: Blumoo is just a terrible product name. If you can overlook that, though, you’re …

eZelleron Inc. With most mobile chargers, you’re lucky to be able to recharge your phone two or three times before the charger itself needs recharging. And to do that, you need to find an AC outlet, fish out your AC adapter and cable, then wait a couple hours. Kraftwerk is a mobile charger that solves both these issues. It can …

A new iPad Air with 32GB has rarely been cheaper. DailySteals It probably goes without saying that I have mixed feelings about the Apple iPad. On the one hand, it’s awesome. The styling and design, the user interface, the huge variety of accessories — it all adds up to what I consider the single best tablet experience you can have. …

Screenshot by Rick Broida/CNET Why settle for a small screen when there’s a much larger one nearby? AllCast is an iOS app that can stream media from your iPhone or iPad to your TV. (It’s available for Android as well, and in fact was featured last year as a way to do more with your Chromecast.) Specifically, AllCast lets you …