cord organization

Forget about tangled cables, TAIM will tame your MacBook’s charging cable!

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CROWDFUNDING NEWS – I only travel 3 or 4 times a year, but when I do, I always take my MacBook with me because I don’t know what it means to “unplug.” Speaking of plugs, since I take my MacBook when I travel, I also take the power adapter. It’s always annoying to take the […]

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These stick on cord organizers will become your favorite way to keep your kitchen tidy

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NEWS – If you’re like me, you probably have several kitchen gadgets that you don’t keep plugged in all the time. I like to store them in a closet or cabinet when they aren’t being used, but one thing that drives me crazy is the cords. I usually try to wrap them around the appliance

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Get rid of your pile of charging cables and bricks with the new PWRBOARD!

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NEWS – If you’re anything like me, you have chargers of various sorts scattered throughout your office/house. The PWRBOARD is attempting to centralize all your battery charging into a single customizable device, and if their final product ends up even close to what they’re promising I will leap at the opportunity to try it out!

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Regular Zip Ties are great but these Zip Ties are on steroids!

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NEWS – The next time your nylon Zip Ties don’t seem to be quite up for the task, consider these stainless steel Zip Ties from Keadic. They are available in different lengths from 4 inches up to 14 inches and come in packs of 30 ties starting at $7.99 for the 4-inch version and $10.99

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Magnetic Cable Management by Elago – a simple but clever twist on this cable management tool

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NEWS – I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – I detest cable messes. Anything that wrangles that chaos into some semblance of order is a good thing in my book. Magnetic Cable Management by Elago is a simple but clever cable management tool that includes a magnetic bar and three magnetic “buttons”

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Here are some fun cord keepers for your sports-centric kids (or adults)

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NEWS – Do you have kids (or adults) that have cords constantly falling on the floor after unplugging their devices? Now there’s a fun way to keep these cords in place on a desk or a nightstand. With the Sports Pack by Cord Buddy, you get two polyurethane cord keepers in the shape of the

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Hide your colossal mass of cables using a Bluelounge CableBin

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NEWS – I have Bluelounge CableBoxes that organize my cable mess around our desk and TV in the den, and I love them. However, the colossal (near critical) mass of cables behind our living room entertainment center would never fit in the large-sized CableBox. Enter the Bluelounge CableBin. This bin looks like an attractive office

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Organize your cables with Wrap-it Storage Cable Clams 5-inch Strips

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NEWS – My passionate loathing for cable messes drives me to find ways to organize it all. Wrap-it Storage has available Cable Clams 5-inch Strips to help people like me. These 5-inch Cable Clams are adhesive hook-and-loop strips that can be mounted on your small appliances, walls, desks, etc. to bundle and clean up your

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Label your cables with hook-and-loop Wrap-It Cable Labels

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NEWS – Whenever I need to troubleshoot the cables of a device in our entertainment center, I curse the cable mess behind it. I waste loads of time just identifying the correct cables that belong to the device in question before I’ve even gotten the chance to do the actual work. Labels are definitely the

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Organize your TV streaming device with the Wrap Caddy TV Streaming Device Cable Manager

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NEWS – I detest the cable mess behind our TV and love simple ways to clean it up. If you do too, and you have a TV streaming device like an Apple TV, Roku, Amazon Fire TV, or the like, you’ll want to check out the Wrap Caddy TV Streaming Device Cable Manager by Allsop.

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Marlondo Leather Mousepad and Cord Keepers review

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REVIEW – Here’s a little something to add some class to your workspace! I got my hands on some accessories from Marlondo Leather that I’ve been using for the past month as part of my work-from-home setup. Lovely full grain leather that’s super functional to boot! To the review! What is it? The mousepad is,

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The Silk Magnetic Cable Wrangler is attracted to your charging cables

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NEWS – I just can’t help myself. I’m drawn to cable organizers like the Cable Wrangler (see what I did there?) by Silk, a company based in Austin, TX. Silk describes themselves as a “jaunty, down-to-earth, and highly-caffeinated group of folks that, since 2009, have taken our products seriously, but ourselves … not so much”

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Fuse Side Kick Collapsible Laptop Charger Winder quick review

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REVIEW – Kickstarter alert! The makers of the Side Winder are at it again, this time with a cable winder that attaches right to your power brick. The Fuse Side Kick is collapsible, compact, and keeps your cable nice and tidy. And if you act fast, you can get in on the Kickstarter before it

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Don’t get tied up in knots over organizing your cables, use Untie Cord Organizer!

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NEWS – I can’t stand a tangled cable mess, so I generally use hook-and-loop ties to organize my cables. But then I saw the Untie Cord Organizer and thought that that would be a clever and really quick way to neatly store my earbuds. The Untie organizer is a bendable stainless steel tie coated in

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Pad & Quill’s new TechFolios will tame your cable chaos

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NEWS – When you love gadgets and gear as much as we do, you sometimes run into problems finding the cables needed to charge those gadgets. Throwing them in the bottom of your gear bag isn’t the best habit because it’s hard to see and find them, let alone the fact that they can become

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Orbit is an iPhone cord organizer with a surprise

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NEWS – Are you one of those mobile warriors that shove your cables and adapters into your gear bag with willy nilly abandon only to cuss later on when you find the cables tangled or can’t find the AC adapter that you need to charge your iPhone? The folks at the Hip Product Factory have

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Snap-N-Store magnetic clips can hold a pencil, mark a page, or hold your money

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NEWS – These versatile leather-covered magnetic clips from Levenger serve many functions.  You can use them as cable organizers for earbuds or charging cables.  Clip them to a notebook as a pen holder, or clip them to a page in a book as a bookmark.  You can use them as a paper clamp to keep

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Tame that nest of snakes in your laptop bag with the Side Winder

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Chargers for MacBooks have permanently-attached cables that can be hard to roll up and control for neat transport.  The chargers used to have little flip-out wings that were designed to wind the thin cable around without stressing the attachment point, but those wings are missing from the chargers now.  Even when they were there, they

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