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How to Keep Your Number With Google Voice Voicemail

With more and more people switching to a cell-only household, we're starting to find tips and tricks to make our cell phones more efficient than our landlines could have ever been......

Plug In the Right Way, Every Time with a Spot of Glue

We love Lifehacker's readers for genius little tips like these: Have you ever reached to plug your cell phone in to charge in the middle of the night and had the power cord connector oriented the wron...

How to... Stop Cellphone Created SpeakerBuzz

Nothing rattles our chains like being interrupted from a music high. We invest in super high-quality sound systems so we can chill out in our apartments after a long day of work and lose ourselves in...

Is There 'No Tech' Time in Your House?

When it was time for home-cooked dinners in the family dining room, the TV went off and the phone—no matter how much it rang—went unanswered. But in these days, there's a thousand more dis...

Re(al)view: Panasonic's Link-to-Cell Bluetooth Cordless Phone

As well as my cell phone, I still have a land line. Juggling two phones at home while doing other activities -- making dinner, cleaning, gardening -- can be a pain. Wouldn't it be easier if you had o...

A Mini Docking Station for Small Cool Spaces

We love docking stations for their perfect balance of aesthetics and function. You've got a dedicated spot to keep all your gadgets, putting an end to searching the couch cushions for your cell phone,...

Joby: More Than Just Tripods

Joby's Gorillapod is a well-known, lightweight, compact tripod solution that let you fix your camera in pretty much any situation. Now, after the success of the Gorillapod, Joby will be launching Gori...

5 Secret Things Your Cell Phone Can Do?

We'd been contemplating getting rid of our land line permanently after reading Abby's post awhile back, but we just haven't made the leap...yet. However, this morning we got an interesting email entit...

DIY: Turn On Your Home Computer With a Cell Phone

We're warning you: this is a pretty advanced little project. But if you've got the tech know-how, come inside to see how you can rig your home computer to turn on from anywhere in the world with a pho...

NY Times: Cell Phone-Fed Digital Photo Frames

It's a great gift for any techie to get for their parents or grandparents: A digital photo frame, while being one of those darn new-fangled gadgets they curse at, doesn't really require any extensive ...

Make Your Own Charging Pocket from a Shampoo Bottle

At home, we've got our cell phone's power cord "wired" (read: we taped it) behind the headboard, giving us just a little piece of the business end of the charger sitting on our pedestal nightstand. Bu...

Use a Kitchen Bowl to Amp Up Your Speakerphone Calls

After losing our faith in quick home remedies by seeing the Do-It-Yourself HD Projector Kit (You want me to make what?!), we have regained a glimmer of hope for humanity with this tip from Lifehacker...

What Are Your Tech Travel Neccesities?

July is travel month at Unplggd and I'm happy to tell you that I'm leaving for Boston in the morning and spent last night packing. In an effort to save some cash (read: I'm broke), I decided not to ch...

News: EU Cell Makers Adopt Standard MicroUSB Charger

On Monday, all of Europe's top mobile telephone suppliers—including Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Apple, LG, NEC, Qualcomm, Research in Motion and Samsung—agreed to back an EU-wide harmo...

GeekSugar Offers Up DIY Charging Station Tips!

Have You Lost Tech in a Tragedy?

That up there? Yep, that's my car. One second I was cruising through a green light and the next second I was crushed, cut up, bruised—and minus one iPod. In all the bumping around, everything th...

Do You Need Tech to Get You Through a Workout?

Picture this: I've left my humble digs and driven 7 and a half minutes to my local gym. Just as I pull into the parking spot, I realize that although I've got my workout clothes, a towel and a bottle ...

Velvet Media Bags Are Great For Storage, Travel

We give plenty of thought to storing all of our tech parts and pieces, coming up with easy and inexpensive solutions like repurposing old photo storage boxes. But it's nice to see that we're not alone...

Look! Cell Phone-Styled Building Facade

We wanted to bring you a little something fun to start off the last day of the workweek. I mean, we all love tech, especially when we can tie our tech love into our home decor, but this building facad...

Tech Tip: Give Yourself a Desk Landing Strip for Your Gadgets

If you've been reading Apartment Therapy, we're sure you already know about the virtues of having a "landing strip" at the most-used entrance to your humble digs. Whether it's a basket or a shelf or a...

If Sales Keep Growing, Will Smartphones be a Necessity?

In the top five most awesomely awkward moments that forced social networking events provide, this has to be up there: Exchanging contact info with a possible parter who doesn't have an email address Y...

5 Surprising Ways You're Breaking the Law With Tech

If you're up on your legalese, or you've watched Legally Blonde enough times to convince people you're a law student, you know that there's a difference between crimes that are generally believed to b...

The New Bored-In-The-Car Game: Guess the Gadget

I just got back home to Atlanta after a weekend road trip (24 hours in three days, whew!) to my hometown of Miami to be a bridesmaid in my best friend's wedding. As soon as we hit South Florida, aka t...

Look! Kyocera's Foldable Phone: Folds Up in Your Pocket

Wouldn't it be cool to be able to fold up your phone when you don't need it? How about only partially unfolding it in order to make a quick call or to send a text message? That's the concept that Kyoc...