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How To Clean In-Ear Headphones

We love our in-ear headphones. One thing we don't love about them is how quickly they can start looking quite dirty thanks to the white ear buds. Recently we discovered the cleaning powers of a home...

Use Inside-Out Tape to Clean Under Screen Protectors

Touch screens are everywhere these days—controlling everything from the TV remote to your home phone. So it follows that screen protectors are everywhere, too. Here's a tip to clean under the pl...

Are Sneezing Electronics in Our Future?

We're sure a lot of you have the sniffles right now. But would you ever imagine that your radio might be right next to you sneezing along? It might be in the future of consumer electronics, and it's n...

Clean Your Dishwasher Easily with Kool-Aid

Most of the mentions of Kool Aid on Unplggd are references to cult-like behaviors along the lines of "drinking the Apple Kool Aid." But who knew the popular drink mix could help with kitchen appliance...

We Missed 'Clean Off Your Desk' Day!

This impeccable desk is from Tia and Mikko's Masterplan Tech Tour We can't believe it! We just found out there's an entire holiday dedicated to cleaning off the most cluttered of spaces, our computer ...

Vacuum Your Desk All While You Surf

Imagine crumbs and dust magically disappearing off your pristine glass desk as you surf the web for cats with captions. With the USB Dust Vacuum Mouse, cleaning the desktop won't ever be a worry. ...

Clean Fridge Coils Once to Save on Bills Year-Round

The microwave gets a spot in your everyday cleaning routine, mainly because you've got to look at at constantly. But a once-a-year cleaning for a different kitchen appliance could cut a chunk out of y...

An "iTunes for Magazines" Keeps the Coffee Table Clear

Will magazine racks in the home be a thing of the past? Will we never see coffee tables cluttered with glossy pages again? We don't know. But if a new joint venture between magazine biggies Time Inc.,...

Distilled Water is Best to Clean LCD Screens

No fancy and expensive chemicals, no crazy contraptions. This LCD-screen cleaning method is all about the right (natural) materials, a clean cloth and great technique......

Toss the Duster: TVClean Rolls It Off Your Screen

I must be a dust magnet. Whether it's the black surface of my stove, the shelves on my espresso bookshelf or the screen on my TV, I seem to always attract massive amounts of dust. It requires constant...

Table 180 Tucks All Your Desk Neccessities Away

The key to cutting down on visual clutter in a home is to have a place for everything and to keep everything in it's place. There could not be a more fitting motto for this desk concept. With Table 18...

Garbage Bin From the Future: Keeps Smells Away

We don't really like garbage bins. They end up being smelly and leaky most of the time. You have to clean the garbage can out so many times that it gets annoying in the end. Plus, the smells can be gh...

Good Questions: How Do I Clean My HDTV Screen?

Hey Unplggd, This may seem like a silly question, but I really need a cheap way to clean my super dusty HDTV LCD screen without damaging the matte surface. Any thoughts? -Inoj...

Good Questions: Software Keep My Mac Clean, Healthy and Fast?

Yeo from Switzerland asks: Greets Unplggd! I've been a PC user for the longest time and I've always had to reinstall the OS every few months because of the leftover registry residues. I got fed up -...

How to: Fake a "Clean" Home Office

So, you've finally found that the perfect spot for your home office is right in the living room so it's out of sight when you head to bed, but still not lonely and forgotten in the back of the house. ...

There's More Than One Way to Catch a Virus on Your Phone

Think about where your cell phone travels everyday. It comes up from the nightstand in the morning and it might follow you into the kitchen when you make breakfast or in the bathroom when you shower a...

Tomy Dustbot: The Roomba of 1985

Roomba is a saving grace for anybody with a hairy pet or a penchant for potting plants (it also makes a pretty great PacMan mod, too). But back in 1985, the adorable Tomy Dustbot out-Roombaed Roomba w...

Super Cheap and Easy DIY Hideaway Keyboard

What does a father do when his toddler daughter, apparently exercising her creative juices as a drummer, won't stop banging on his desktop computer keyboard? He comes up with a DIY project that costs ...

Who Can Get Their Digital Past off the Internet?

ComputerWorld recently did a piece about erasing your digital past and how difficult it can be to remove embarrassing and damaging search results from sites like Google. They gave themselves a week t...

Mommy, Where do Sweaters Go When They Finally Dry?

Having recently moved from South Florida to a (slightly) more northern state, we're finally seeing what Autumn and Winter are supposed to look like. What do we love about the crisp weather? Red leaves...

Flickr Finds: A Clean Web Developer's Desk

Web developers, graphic artists, computer programmers and pretty much everyone who gets work done at home on their desk tend to have slightly messy work spaces. It all depends on how much stuff you ha...