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When organizing your desk to look clean and clutter-free, step one is to hide your cords by tucking them under the desktop where they won't be seen. Well, that's not so easy for our lofted readers.

Nothing like being on a great date in the middle of great conversation when nature calls and you have to go do your (sometimes noisy) thing.

Ideally, passwords for online accounts should stay stored in one spot: Your brain. But as the most forgetful among us know (if you could see me, I'm raising my hand), it's hard to keep track of every Web site registration's login and passcode.

A career retrospective of Tim Burton's contributions to art and cinema was unveiled Tuesday night at New York's Museum of Modern Art. But if you're nowhere near New York, you can bring a little bit of the dark-and-beautiful Tim Burton style to your desk with GelaSkins.

Ah, the iconic shape of vintage Polaroid photo film shows up again in high-design home decor! Take a cue from Apartment Therapy San Francisco and bring some green indoors for the winter with this Polaroid Flower Vase.

We were loving this light fixture for the geeky-cool way it combines typography, rusted metal, marquee lights and our favorite keyboard symbol. Now we love it even more because we spotted it in Twitter's new San Francisco office!

What if the art on your walls couldn't load? When asked to contribute a piece of art for his office reception, this hilarious super-geek came up with an automated real-life version of a Mac OSX not working as planned.

Some desktop cords you just can't hide. When you're charging a cell phone or emptying your digital camera, your cables are on full blast. Why not have a little fun and color-coordinate while you're at it?

The children are our future and if we don't tech them to turn lights off to conserve energy then who will? Well, this colorful kid-friendly ghost guy, Tio, can do it.

It's always rough hearing news of brilliant innovations that you personally can't take advantage of (like when a rad new phone is released for a different cell service carrier than the one you're locked into contract with). But it gives hope that the new technology will soon become standard.

You spend all your time and money pimping out your house with the hottest furnishings and most up-to-date tech you can find and how does Karma repay you? By making sure your expensive living room light fixture gets right in the way of your TV projection path.

As we get deep into holiday shopping, we're reminded that the two most magical words of the season aren't "Merry Christmas" or "Happy Hanukkah"—but "Free Shipping!"

We're living in a world of wireless laser computer mouses and many casual computer users are tossing out their mouse pad in favor of a more streamlined existence. But some others are still stuck using ugly 'pads.

As a general group, us aesthetes can be known to be mildly obsessive-compulsive about silly visual things—like when the status bar on our TV screen won't go away fast enough.