Buying Thin Mints online? Girl Scout cookies go digital

Girl Scouts Soon, you may be able to get your Do-si-dos, Samoas and Thin Mints online. (Or Peanut Butter Sandwiches, Caramel DeLites and Thin Mints, depending on your part of the country.) That would mean no more trudging about town, seeking out your crunchy sugar fix in a blind frenzy, hoping to stumble on a …

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How to clear a default app setting on Android

Nicole Cozma/CNET When experimenting with different applications from the Google Play Store, you might come across a pop-up that asks if you want to set an application as your default choice. If you accidentally choose the wrong one, it may not be obvious how to change it again. For instance, let’s say you’re trying out the Google Chrome beta on …

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BT broadband out for some customers despite line rental price hike

The flatmates in BT’s adverts will have trouble getting into comic misadventures and hi-larious scrapes with their broadband connection interrupted. BT BT broadband customers are having problems getting online, which is just adding insult to injury considering the company hiked line rental prices today. “We’re aware of an intermittent issue that’s affecting some broadband customers,” a BT spokesperson said in …

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How to rename a Dropbox file or folder using the iOS app

Jason Cipriani/CNET Ever encountered a time when you needed to rename a file or folder stored in Dropbox, but only had your iOS device nearby? As you likely found out, renaming just wasn’t something the app would allow you to do. On Monday that changed however, when Dropbox released an update for its iOS app which enabled a renaming feature. …

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How to customize your Gmail signature on Android

Nicole Cozma/CNET Gmail’s Web interface allows you to add a signature that appends to your messages. Fortunately, the mobile application also supports this. What’s the importance of adding a signature? For starters you can make those you email a bit more forgiving to your typos, or perils experienced with autocorrect, if you simply add “Sent from my phone” to each …

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Perth expands free Wi

Image by Cameron Adams, CC BY-ND 2.0 The City of Perth has expanded its free public Wi-Fi network across the CBD, joining the likes of Canberra and Adelaide in offering wireless internet access to visitors and workers in the centre of the city. After rolling out the first stage of its public Wi-Fi network build — a move that saw …

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Razer Nabu fitness band available this week in North America

Razer Announced at the Consumer Electronics Show at the beginning of this year, the Razer Nabu wearable fitness band has had a pretty long go-to-market time, but that’s because the company has been using the time to further refine its product. Since its announcement earlier this year, Razer has added Apple’s iOS8 Health app support as well as a partnership …

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Unreleased Sony movies leaked to file

Four unreleased Sony movies leak on to the Internet after security breach. Sony Pictures Entertainment’s security woes escalated this weekend when it was reported that a handful of the studio’s recently produced films were released to file-sharing websites. The pirated copies of five movies began showing up online just days after a security breach reportedly forced the film and TV …

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Spectacular headphones from a company called MrSpeakers

MrSpeakers Alpha Prime headphones MrSpeakers MrSpeakers’ Dan Clark started out as a speaker designer, but he switched over to headphones a few years ago. Clark loves his work; every time I see him demonstrating his headphones he’s always smiling, happy to answer any and all questions. MrSpeakers will celebrate its third year as a headphone manufacturer in April, 2015. Clark …

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Crave giveaway: iPhone 6 accessories aplenty

Make you and your phone happy. Josh Miller/CNET Editor’s note: this contest closed at noon ET on Monday, December 1. Congratulations to Michael B. of Haslet, Texas, for winning a $300 gift certificate from Rakuten.com last week. Got one of those newfangled iPhone 6 thingamajigs? Take a look at this bundle of accessories we have for it (though most of …

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Uber suspends operations in Nevada after injunction

Uber has shut down in Nevada in response to a temporary restraining order. Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images Uber has ceased operations in Nevada after a district judge issued a restraining order against the ride-sharing service. The San Francisco-based company, which has been operating in Nevada for about a month, said Wednesday that it was shutting down over “confusion” about its …

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Best Black Friday UK deals

Sarah Tew/CNET Bing bong, attention shoppers: Black Friday is back. One day after the American holiday Thanksgiving is Black Friday, the day upon which US shops drop their prices as a last chance for shoppers to snatch up some savings before Christmas. The event has spread to these shores, and you don’t have to join the rumble at the checkouts …

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Yandex browser’s tidy new interface puts Web apps first

With video backgrounds on the overhauled Yandex browser, the clouds move behind the grid of quick-access websites. Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET Yandex, the Russian search, email and e-commerce site, has released a new version of its browser that tries to pare down user-interface distractions to the absolute minimum. The software, available as an early alpha version for testing, is designed …

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Black Friday is showing signs of gray

Though more accurate, “Black Thanksgiving Week” just doesn’t have the same ring to it. David Carnoy/CNET The bloom may finally be off Black Friday. The day after Thanksgiving, which earned a reputation as the biggest shopping day of the year, has always lured price-conscious consumers with the promise of killer deals. But it’s just not all that it used to …

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