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Andrew's Ingenious Floating Monitor Home Office
Tech Tour

Name: Andrew Flynn Location: Chandler, Arizona Type: Home office When we saw Andrew Flynn's amazing home office, we knew that we had to do a tech tour of his place. The great DIY features really s...

Try Cable Lacing to Get Loose Cords Wrapped Up

Tried and true in the telecom industry and in naval and aerospace applications, we don't see any reason why you can't try cable lacing to keep your media center or workspace wires under wraps!...

Do You Keep Digital and Paper Records?

We love using online organizational tools. But sometimes, pen-and-paper have to rule. Where do you double-up on your digital and paper records?...

A Roundup of 15 iPhone Apps For Home Design

Seems like there's an iPhone app for just about everything these days, including quite a few geared to help eager DIY home designers. Several of these we've covered here before, but we thought it migh...

Gregory's Refreshed & Refreshing Home Office
Tech Tour

Name: Gregory Han
 Location: Silver Lake, California
 Size: Home office measuring 60" width x 106" length
 Years lived in: 4+ It's been awhile since we last had a tech tour, so I thought I'd of...

GRID-IT Helps Keep Your Tech Glut in Check

We like to consider ourselves pretty clean and organized by any standard. But there's an issue that plagues us regularly: tech clutter. It's part of our job to plug this in, route that around, and t...

Organizing Ideas for a Music Station

Lately, we've been seeing a lot of vinyl collections popping up in Apartment Therapy house tours. It makes us think that, although wireless technology is improving, there's still something about res...

PlugLock Keeps Big Transformers in Place

Sometimes the industrial design, or lack thereof, of some products amazes us. If whetever you're powering needs to have an enormous transformer attached, design the cord so it's placed somewhere in th...

Tech Tip: Use a Plastic Card to Organize Cables

So you've arranged your desk so that all your necessary peripheral cords and cables are mostly hidden. You've made sure just the business ends of your iPod and digital camera cords are peeking out. Th...

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...

Keep Extra-Long Cords In Check with a Chain Sinnet

There's tons of solutions for hiding the cords that tangle behind your computer desk or media center (We happen to favor the DIY rain gutter method, ourselves). But some wires, like headphones and per...

Wii Balance Board Stand and Charging Station from Mad Catz

Wii Fit, with it's motion-sensing balance board, is a home exercising force to be reckoned with. It's a perfect rainy day solution for active people in small, cool spaces who most certainly don't have...

Luciol's Digital Bookmarks Organizes Your Real World Library

While placing bookmarks may seem like an everyday, even mundane, task for some, there's always room for improvement when you make it go digital. In comes Luciol, a digital bookmarking device by Defne ...

eninal Tray: Organize Your Office on Your Wall

Art as organization, or is it organization as art? Either way, having all your office supplies accessible but not in a messy pile on your desk is a challenge for many of us. You can go with a beautifu...

SUCK UK's Pre-Grunged CD & Vinyl Dividers

LPs are on their way back and seeing increasing sales over the past few years, thanks in no small part to big artists releasing content exclusively on vinyl. If you're starting a collection, or you're...

Wii Tower Storage Unit Makes the Wii Its Mini-Me

Gaming Consoles must be cursed by some strange voodoo warrior. They have complete control over your life with the power to take over your money, your time and your living room. Seriously, all the peri...

Cool Vintage Film Tins Find New Use In Your Space

We've seen people re-use tech packaging for home decor before in our post about reusing Apple's MacBook shipping styrofoam to create a unique 3D wallpaper. We've got another idea for you now, but it's...

Flickr Finds: Organized Workflow Or A Messy Production?

There are times when artistic work stems from the most chaotic messes, but sometimes even the seemingly messiest types have a controlled workflow in mind to unbeknowst to those on the outside looking ...

Behind the Blog: Workalicious

Our Behind the Blog series continues. Today we have Workalicious. The name is what caught our attention, but the content is definitely what keeps us coming back. Although a relatively new site, we ha...

DIY: Recycled Desk Accessories

We all know the love-hate relationship we have with desk accessories. If you've got some room, some time and zero(!) dollars, try this do-it-yourself project on for size. Afroditi Krassa is launching ...