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Tired of hunching over your laptop’s relatively small screen? Plug in an external monitor for a proper desktop setup. And, hey, if you’re going to do that, you might as well go big — especially when there’s a deal like this. For a limited time, and while supplies last, Staples has the AOC 27E1H 27-inch …

My mom once told me that you can never have too many socks. That’s probably true, but I tend to believe that you can never have too many power accessories. I have so many Qi wireless chargers scattered around my house that if they were glasses of water, I’d be able to fight off an alien invasion in an M. …

It doesn’t matter what kind of TV you have: If you’re relying on the integrated speakers, your sound system is terrible. That’s why you can’t understand dialogue and all the music and sound effects sound like they’re played through a transistor radio. The best thing you can do to upgrade your home theater audio is to add a soundbar — …

Cheeps! Have you listened to the latest episode of the Cheapskate Show podcast? You should, especially if you’re in a back-to-school mindset. (I know this is a fraught topic, but whether they’re at home or in classrooms, students are going to need gear. Affordable gear, ideally.) Anyhow, here’s the show if you want to have a listen, followed by a …

It was just a few days ago that Woot was selling Apple’s AirPods Pro for an all-time-low $215. That deal barely lasted a day. Now it’s back, but from another source: For a limited time, and while supplies last, Alldayzip via Rakuten has the AirPods Pro for $215 with promo code ALL15.  See it at Rakuten To take advantage of …

The average Bluetooth speaker has nowhere near enough power for parks, pool parties, the beach and other wide-open spaces. If you really want to crank up your tunes, you need something big. Like this: Today only, and while supplies last, Meh has the Braven BRV-XXL/2 Portable Bluetooth Speaker for $149, plus $5 for shipping. This second-gen version of the BRV-XXL, …

Odds are good that several months ago you hadn’t been planning to spend a lot of time working from home, but here you are — trying to make the best of your laptop when you used to have an enormous monitor on your desk at work. A second monitor can give you a lot more screen room, but who has …

Good headphones have a reputation for being expensive. Good wireless headphones? Doubly so. Noise-canceling headphones? Triply so (that’s an actual word, I checked). But before you plunk down $200 or more on a back-to-school or back-to-quarantine set of wireless ANC headphones, consider this: Amazon seller SoundElec has the Mpow H19 IPO Active Noise Cancelling Headphones for $25 when you apply …

Apple has joined an industry trend toward more inclusive language in its technical domain, replacing terms with racial overtones like a “master” branch of a software project or a “blacklist” to describe resources a computer might be blocked from accessing. Apple started making the changes in its own documentation and beta software released last month at its WWDC conference. But …

Cheapskates don’t use Microsoft Office. Or, at least, they don’t pay for it: Microsoft offers pretty decent freebie versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint that live in your browser. And let’s not forget the various free alternatives, such as Google Docs, LibreOffice and WPS Office. All that being said, I like a good deal, and this is a good deal. For …