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Use A Chain Sinnet To Tidy Cables
5:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | At your work station you can use a wire basket under your desk to stash cables or other containment strategies. What about for cables you take with you for laptops and portable devices? More »
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Rain Gutters As Cable Management Tools
5:30AM Adam Pash | We’re all about creative cable management here at Lifehacker, so we were instantly drawn to reader Seandavid010’s rain-gutter cable management setup. More »
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3:00PM Angus Kidman | We’ve covered plenty of ways to conceal cables in the past, but if none of those appeal, going to the other extreme — decorating your cables with beads — might just work. More »
Beat Cable Clutter With Beads
3:00PM Angus Kidman | We’ve covered plenty of ways to conceal cables in the past, but if none of those appeal, going to the other extreme — decorating your cables with beads — might just work. More »
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Get Your Cord Clutter Under Control With Cable Lacing
9:00AM Adam Pash | We’ve featured tons of cord decluttering tips over the years, but cable lacing is a simple, classic method of cord management that we’ve somehow overlooked. More »
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DIY Card Cable Organiser
5:00AM Adam Pash | The plastic card cable organiser manages cords under or behind your desk and keeps cords—like your iPod charging cord—from falling off your desk when unplugged. The idea behind the card cable organizer is exactly the same as previously mentioned Keep-a-Cable, but this DIY version transforms your unused club cards into cable holders with a hole punch and some scissors. Clever. Card Cable Organizer [Creatrope via Unclutterer] More »
Creative Ways to Reuse “Disposable” Items
2:00AM Gina Trapani | We asked earlier this week what disposable items you had found creative re-uses for, and the answers are in. Not surprisingly, some of you have some pretty crafty uses for household goods that usually end up at the curb. From CD-R spindles to corks, twist-ties to tissue boxes, lots of supposedly one-use items can save you money, free up space, and be seriously handy when the need arises. After the jump, a roundup of our readers’ waste-reducing reuses. Yogurt photo by Dan4th, all others by How can I recycle this. More »
Disposable Paper Earbud Cord Wrap
11:00PM Gina Trapani | Soldering? Duct tape? Pshaw. Sometimes all you need to make something is paper and tape. The do-it-yourselfer at the E-Frank blog wanted a simple, disposable earbud cord wrap for his music player, so he folded one up out of a single piece of paper and sealed it with tape. A “deluxe edition” of the wrap involves adding a slit to the spine to run the cord through. Dead simple and useful, plus you won’t feel too bad if you lose it. Poor Man’s Earbud Cord Wrap [e-frank.com] More »
Pegboard Gadget Organizer Redux
12:00AM Gina Trapani | For the next two weeks, readers are submitting their best life hack for a chance to win an autographed copy of our new book, Upgrade Your Life. Reader Trent writes in with his photographic take on the popular pegboard gadget mount project we posted a while back. Trent says the project took: More »
Hide Cords in Plain Sight with FlatWire
2:00PM Adam Pash | If you hate cord clutter but don’t have the DIY chops to run wiring through your walls or your crown molding, FlatWire is a paper-thin wire you install directly on your wall and then paint over. Aftering you’ve installed and painted over the FlatWire, it’s supposed to be virtually invisible. The catch: It’s not cheap, at $US37 for 25 feet of speaker wire, for example, plus the price of connectors, which run about $25. But then sometimes decluttering your mess of wires comes at a price. If you don’t feel like unfurling your big money wad for the FlatWire, check out our top 10 ways to get cables under control on the cheap. FlatWire [via DIY Life] More »
