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eBay's next target: The under-18 crowd | Internet & Media

eBay has historically been a place for adults to buy and sell goods. But in the coming months, kids might make their way to the service. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57480727-93/ebays-next-target-the-under-18-crowd/
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/6-home-inventory-apps-weekly-smartphone-app-roundup-169437

Get Organized: 6 Home Inventory Apps Weekly Smartphone App Roundup

They say that knowing is half the battle. If you were asked to make a list of all the CDs you own, would you be able to do it? Having a home inventory is not only helpful for insurance purposes, it's useful to maintain control over how much we own to avoid double purchases.
http://lifehacker.com/5948991/go-paperless-this-weekend Paper is becoming more and more irrelevant as technology evolves and finds better ways to replace it.

Go Paperless This Weekend

http://lifehacker.com/5880421/how-to-organize-and-declutter-your-entertainment-center If your entertainment center looks like a fire hazard, it might be time to get the cord clutter under control and hidden away.

How to Organize and Declutter Your Entertainment Center

De-Grease Your Laptop with a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser

If you're tired of shiny, greasy spots all over your laptop you can safely cut through the grease with a Mr. http://lifehacker.com/5645396/de+grease-your-laptop-with-a-mr-clean-magic-eraser
In most cases, the back of your desktop monitor is nothing more than wasted space. If you have an all-in-one system like an iMac, that space is even more cluttered because it has cables coming out of it every which way. Let's look at the ways you can turn that unused space into a useful little utility belt for storage and organization.

Turn the Back of Your Monitor Into a Workspace Utility Belt

http://lifehacker.com/5928733/turn-the-back-of-your-monitor-into-a-workspace-utility-belt

Create a Searchable Catalog of Your Bookshelf by Snapping a Picture into Evernote

http://lifehacker.com/5937306/create-a-searchable-catalog-of-your-bookshelf-by-snapping-a-picture-into-evernote Got a big book collection and don't really want to take the time to catalog the entire thing?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-57484661-92/the-elusive-paperless-office-hellosign-says-it-has-the-answer/

The elusive paperless office: HelloSign says it has the answer | Business Tech

HelloFax CEO Jospeh Walla wants to kill printers and scanners -- doing away with them one digital signature at a time. HelloFax is known for letting people send and receive faxes, request signatures, and fill out forms -- all without a physical document.

Reader inspired charging station

http://unclutterer.com/2007/09/14/reader-inspired-charging-station/ by Erin Doland on Sep 14, 2007

Millepede Cable Ties

http://kk.org/cooltools/archives/2097 Millepede is a refastenable cable bundling tie that is very different from the Zip ties we all know and love. It’s essentially a flexible plastic strip of little boxes separated by larger D shapes.

Work Smart 2: Perfect Your Digital Document Filing System

Scanning your stacks of paper to digital documents is a huge project, and you want to make sure all that information will be as easy to find on your hard drive as it is in your filing cabinet. In this week's episode of Work Smart, packrat Ed Imbier asks how he can organize his digital archive in a way that makes finding information easy. I share my favorite tools for capturing, organizing, and finding documents on your computer, and Lifehacker editor Adam Pash gives his advice.

Hack Attack: The Cordless Workspace (sort of)

by Adam Pash If there's one thing we noticed in the course of our recent Coolest Workspace Contest , it's that clutter is a cool workspace's greatest nemesis. And when it comes to clutter, there's nothing worse than a big, nappy tangle of cords ugly-in' up your work area.
Posted by Laura on April 10, 2008 · 21 Comments Welcome!

Organizing wires and cables

I’ve gotten a lot of questions from readers about why Cloud-Coach.net doesn’t have a prominent search box (and yes, there’s a strategic reason why). In This Week’s Video… I’ll tell you why I chose to move the search box down to the bottom of my sidebar (I even considered deleting it completely).

How to Find Anything on Any Website (Even if There’s No Search Box)