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Posts tagged “Desktop”

How To Increase Your Work Productivity at Home

With work and home life continuing on a collision course, we'll admit we've been having some trouble focusing on all of our blogging and freelance work all on the same computer. What does Flynn from S...

A Calendar that Sheds its Own Pages?

I love my gadgets. When it comes to keeping dates, however, I rely on a stylishly simple desktop tear-the-date calendar. It works great most of the time to get a quick confirmation of today's date at ...

Using LED Lighting Behind Workstation Monitors

It's always a challenge to create the right kind of lighting when you are working on your computer. Usually, some bright lights work, but that's not always the case. What about when you are relaxing...

5 Free Liberty of London Desktop Wallpapers

We're always on the lookout for beautiful desktop wallpapers that will highlight your home office as not only a place of work, but a place of beauty and inspiration. To promote their new line of Libe...

Organize Your Desktop Dock With Dummy Apps

So you've found the perfect wallpaper and screen saver, matching all your desktop decor to your real decor. You've even installed a pretty handy desktop calendar. But all your efforts are in vain if y...

Well, That's One Way to Camouflage a Speaker

Some people are just so concerned with hiding away every piece of evidence that there's any technology in their homes. For those people, manufacturers make desktop speakers that are pigs. Yep, pigs....

iMac Shelf Helps Cut Down On Desk Clutter

The iMac shelf is a cute little thing that will help you cut down on your desktop clutter. It's handy to put down quite a few different accessories. ...

The Space Bar Gives You Desktop Space

In our humble opinion, no desktop computer is complete without a sleek space-saving keyboard hideout. Even better, a keyboard hideout with 6 USB ports. ...

The Best Times of Year to Buy Your Gadgets

We're sure many of you swapped up discounted goods at after-Christmas sales. But you may not know that each different kind of home tech gadget has an "off" season. Luckily, Lifehacker rounded 'em up f...

5 Free Desktop Calendars for December

Who doesn't like free stuff? Here's a quick way to satisfy any end-of-year hankering you may have to buy a calendar, despite the fact that you never end up using them. Sure, the month is half over, bu...

1950s Inspired Retro Philco PC Looks Incredible

We know that desktops are becoming less popular, but maybe with new the iMacs and computers like this 1950s inspired Philco PC, desktops computers might become more popular again. ...

Simple Desktops Finds Un-Fussy Wallpaper

No workspace is complete without a gorgeous desktop wallpaper. But unfortunately for those of us who don't like huge-multi-monitor digital graphics or keeping our Google Calendars on our dekstops, f...

CompuLab's fit-PC2i Joins the Tiny Desktop Movement

It looks Dell's Zino HD and Apple's Mac Mini are going to have make some room for an even smaller form-factor PC made for the minimalist class of tech aficionados out there. Not only does CompuLab's f...

PC Drawer Makes Use of Empty Media Slots

If we had an unlimited cash flow, we'd always have the newest gadgets. But sometimes we're left with tried-and-true hand-me-downs. If you're still rocking a beige and boxy PC tower, at least make the ...

The StudyBed Converts from Workstation Desk to Bed

Obviously aimed at the dorm/student demographic, but also a viable option for small space dwellers, the StudyBed is quick converting desk into bed solution that offers a decent amount of desk space an...

Medion: Great Looking Multi-Touch Computer and HDTV

As full tower desktops become rarer and laptops become ubiquitous with modern daily life, it's apparent that desktops and HDTVs will become one functional device at a certain point. More and more all-...

Final Frame: The Fridge Desktop

Sometimes you've got to make do with what you've got, as was the case for Elza Rubule, who set up his iMac ontop of a mini fridge as a workspace. We've seen similar setups using a myriad of non-desk s...

How To: Streamline Your Cloud Lifestyle

Regardless of how you may feel when it comes to the laptop vs. netbook debate, there's no denying that the cloud is here, sucking up all our streamlined needs and then spitting it back out onto any co...

Best Product: Audioengine A2 Desktop Speakers

After making several appearances here on Unplggd and trying it out ourselves at our local hi-fi shop to confirm the reviews, the champion from back in 2008 comes back again to take its crown as the be...

Three Free Mac Desktop Calendars

Some people like to keep personal photos or attractive art on their computer desktops. Others like to match their desktops to their decor. But the most productive techies among us would probably prefe...

Nature Calls: Wallpapers for Warm Summer Months

You can pretty much call us nature lovers, so long as it holds some sort of technical twist to it. We've fallen in love with wooden iPod docks, hand-held solar chargers, and even outdoor cactus garden...

Final Frame: Contrast

Although probably a pain to keep clean, we're loving the contrast of this setup ontop of an all black work surface from me™ everyday....

Small Space Office Ideas to Steal from PlayLab Inc.

The transparent wallpaper trend is a fairly old one, but we quite like the view of the complementary wood floor desktop gracing the iMac displays of PlayLab's workstations which extend the perceptual...

Inspiration: Lego Desktop Wallpapers

Ah, Legos. They took over our parents' living rooms when we were young, and they're still at large even today. Grab some cute lookin' Lego wallpapers by Mick or Mike Stimpson and spruce up your deskto...