Apartment Therapy Tagged: tips

Sync Facebook Events With Google Calendar

Until Google takes over the world (Just wait—it'll happen), you're still going to have disparate groups of friends who use different online tools to manage their world......

It's Almost Gadget-Gifting Season!

As an avid reader of Unplggd, you're an authority on all things about the technophile lifestyle. That's why we want to round up your favorite tips and advice on giving and getting gadget gifts this ho...

5 Tips for Productivity: Improving the Daily Desk Flow

Have a messy desk? Guilty here. Just upgraded to Snow Leopard? Guilty again. Well, if you're like us, you've still got the packaging material, discs, and a pile of papers cluttering up our desks. It's...

Stealth Tech Tricks: 5 Ways to Hide Your Wireless Router

If you have the luxury of more than one cable or phone line around the house, that means you have options for router camo. Because who likes looking at detracting flashing lights during a movie night,...

Some Tips to Get a Little Extra TiVo Space

Is your nasty habit of TiVo'ing everything under the sun racking up a gross amount of entertainment debt? Here's some tips to make sure that you're optimizing your TiVo space......

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...

How to Keep Cool Without Breaking the Bank on AC

Summer is upon us and with the heat getting hotter, you might think that there is no relief in sight unless you just put the air conditioner on and let it cool your pad. The trouble is that you'll be ...

MakeUseOf's Lesser-Known Google Maps Features

Some of you might me Google Maps aficionados that are already hip to the tips and tricks that get your from point A to point B more easily. But for those of us still learning the ropes, MakeUseOf.com ...

Good Tech Gardening Tips for the Backyardless?

While living in a 2-bedroom loft in downtown might have its pluses (computing on the balcony, close proximity to work, and a friendly security guard named Joe), when it comes to finding anything remot...

The First Thing to Do When You Get your New HDTV Home

If you've recently saved up some cash (or crunched a little closer to your credit card's limit) and finally bought that brand new HDTV you've been lusting after, you might be a little confused as to w...

Keeping Your Eyes Healthy During a TV Marathon

Sometimes nothing's better than a Saturday morning, afternoon and night spent in front of the tube catching up on those intense TV drama plot lines and find out who's slapping who on VH1's Celebrealit...

Budget Theater: Smart A/V Buying Tips from Hi-Tech Home

While the room above may look like a $100,000 makeover, it really can be budgeted to meet the working requirements dollar-wise to keep your family happy - or at least, make it not seem like you're suc...

64 Things Every Geek Should Know (via Laptop Logic)

If you've been reading Unplggd, you might already have an arsenal of geek skills at your disposal. You probably already know how to display the date and time in Mac's finder bar, how to skip automated...

How To: Avoid Buying Tech You Don't Need

We had lunch with a several IT managers yesterday. As project managers for new hardware refreshes every few years for their company, they have to constantly keep an eye on the amount of spending and o...

Home Remedies For Common Electronics Mishaps

I was having a conversation with a friend the other day about her Indian mom who has a convenient library of home remedies stuck her in brain, kinda like the "Put some Windex on it" dad from My Big Fa...

The Coolest New Tricks From iLife, iWork

You MacHeads all probably already know that the 2009 updated versions of iWork and iLife, two of Apple's software bunches for your business and pleasure(respectively), were announced earlier this mont...

Gmail Trick Can Help You Beat Spam

When I subscribe to catalogs and magazines, I make sure to use a fake name. It's not for any privacy reasons, really. It's just to keep track of who's giving out my address. For example, I recently re...

Tips for Shopping Online During the Holidays

Here's an excellent list of tips for shopping online for both tech and furnishing items, posted over by SarahC at AT Chicago that might ease some of the pressures of shopping as the big day nears: Fo...

Five Favorite Obscure Google Search Tricks

In our very last semester of college, a good friend let us know about a trick she uses to study for exams: Type whatever subject matter you're studying, for example slander and libel in our Law of Mas...

Tech Tips To Make Computer Use Quicker and Easier

We spend a lot of time in front of the computer. Because of this we have picked up many time saving tips and tricks to make our work go faster. Through talking with friends, searching online and more ...