DAVID POGUE has 1.5 million followers on Twitter and recently launched a consumer-tech site for Yahoo. Previously he was the tech columnist at The New York Times for thirteen years *where he wrote weekly columns that constantly ended up on the Top Ten List of most e-mailed articles of the paper. Additionally Pogue writes a monthly column for *Scientific American, is the creator of the Missing Manual computer-book series, and hosts science shows on PBS's NOVA. He has been a correspondent for CBS Sunday Morning since 2002, for which he has won two Emmys, as well as two Webbys, and a Loeb award for journalism.

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Want to know where you can buy $100 iTunes gift cards for $85?
Did you know you can pay your taxes by using a cash-back credit card?
Why are you still paying $235 a year to rent your cable box?

You're leaving money on the table every day, with every transaction you make: changing your oil, withdrawing ATM cash, booking flights, buying insurance, shopping for clothes, squirting toothpaste. But in Pogue's Basics: Money, the third book of this New York Times bestselling series, David Pogue proves that information is money. Each of his 150 simple tips and tricks includes a ballpark estimate of the money you could make or save. Okay, you won't use every tip in the book-but if you did, you'd come ahead by $61,195 a year.

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Introduction
Chapter 1: Shopping Hacks
Chapter 2: Credit Cards
Chapter 3: Gift-Card Hacks
Chapter 4: House and Home
Chapter 5: Tech and TV
Chapter 6: Travel
Chapter 7: Cars
Chapter 8: Food and Drink
Chapter 9: Your Body
Chapter 10: How to Exploit Group Buying Power
Chapter 11: Make Money with No Effort
Chapter 12: The Last Legal Tax Dodges
Chapter 13: The Personal Money Checkup
Chapter 14: Financial Brain Hacks