<![CDATA[Gizmodo: organizer]]> http://tags.gizmodo.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gizmodo.com.png <![CDATA[Gizmodo: organizer]]> http://gizmodo.com/tag/organizer http://gizmodo.com/tag/organizer <![CDATA[Cablox Cable Organizer for the Obsessively Neat Geek]]> These little 4x4-inch Cablox pads are sticky on one side and loaded with tiny little nodules on the other, so you can wind your cables through and line them up just the way you like them.

They actually seem pretty useful if, like me, you have a really nasty tendency to kick loose cables by accident and put undue stress on whatever they're plugged into, since it stretches the cables tight. They're available for $20 for two, if you're okay with navigating a site full of scary foreign consonants. [Cablox via Wired]

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<![CDATA[Lessev Gadget Charging Station Is Simple, Begs for DIY Rip-Off]]> Universal chargers/cable organizers are not new, not one jot, but there are two things about the Lessev that I like. Firstly, it's simple, fairly elegant, and looks like a practical solution: pop your charger connectors through its perforated lid, gadgets on top, and connect up to a power strip inside. Secondly, it's begging for me to zip to the nearest Ikea, buy a cheapo plastic-lidded storage box and knock together my own DIY version. Sure, it won't be made of ABS resin, but I could do it for way less than Lessev's $79 price. [Kilian-Nakamura via Randomgoodstuff]

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<![CDATA[iPhone Apps We Love: Pageonce Is Our Cheap Personal Assistant]]> Lifehacker covered the web version of PageOnce already, but think of it is as a web portal that displays all your various utility, credit card and shopping accounts in one page for easy glance-ability. This is the exact same thing, except on your iPhone. We love it.

Enter in your logins to your Wells Fargos, your Netflixes, your Comcasts and your Diggs once and you'll be able to check them out on the go. Wondering whether that check cleared? Just tap your bank's name and it'll come up with your account info. Want to know when that movie is due from Blockbuster Online? When your next utility payment is due? Easy.

The only thing we'd potentially worry about is having all your logins and passwords held by one institution, reducing each company's security systems to a single point-of-fault held by Pageonce. On the one hand, the service is supposedly pretty safe and has stuff like 256-bit authentication, and on the other hand, we're too lazy to individually visit each web page when we want to look up stuff. This seems like a win-win. Except when you lose your phone, then it's a mad dash to delete your info from Pageonce. [Pageonce]

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<![CDATA[Bluelounge Sanctuary Charging Station Has All The Wires You Need]]> We've seen neat and tidy ways to stick all your charging gadgets in one place before, but the new Sanctuary charger takes the biscuit by having all the wires and plugs you may need already built in. Ok, so it's actually got a power source with 11 different types of plug plus a USB socket under its lid, but that means it's apparently compatible with over 1,500 gizmos. Add in the fact that its looks are actually not bad, and you've got a winner. With one drawback: all that adapter-plug goodness means it costs $129.95. So you'll really have to want cable tidiness to buy this. [Bluelounge via Geeky gadgets]

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<![CDATA[SpaceStation Organizer Looks Futuristically Minimal]]> We've seen our fair share of organizers over the years—especially since we live next door to those good-naturedly anal folks at Lifehacker—but this SpaceStation seems like it's the most minimal that we've seen yet. The system consists of a long, rubberized pad to lay your electronics on top of and a hollow bottom with USB Hub for you to coil all your USB cables around. The end result is a clean surface on top, but a slightly more organized bottom as well. If you were handy, you could probably build one of these yourself for slightly less than the $79 price tag, but it won't look nearly as nice. [Bedlounge]

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<![CDATA[Hands-On With Kangaroom's Cable Organizers]]> We've covered Kangaroom's organizers a bit before, but for the uninitiated, they specialize in making organizers that either hide or arrange your cables and gadgets in a neat way.

We've got the Cellphone Charging Station, the Phone/PDA Charging Station, the Divided Cord Storage & Organizer, and the Travel Cord Storage & Charger Storage. If we were really anal about keeping things neat and orderly—like our friends over at lifehacker, we'd this is the type of thing we'd stock our houses with. Join us after the jump for our thoughts on each one.

First, the Cellphone Charging Station. It's a faux leather box with four compartments on the front with holes for charging. You can fit four regularly-sized cellphones in there, swapping one or all of those phones for say, a camera (providing the charging spot is on the sides), an iPod, a Zune, any media player, a BlackBerry or a PDA. At $30, this is actually pretty useful. The top shelf can hold keys or change, or maybe even charger tips if you've got a universal charger.

Our only gripe is that you can't actually fit a full sized power strip inside the charging station, which means you're going to still have power adapters outside of the unit down onto the floor where your power strip is. So it's not a complete solution, but one that organizes the end so your phones and music players are nicely displayed while they're charging. We'd recommend this one if you've got more than a few things to charge each day.

pdastation.jpgOn the other hand, if you're not one for the leather look, there's the Phone/PDA Charging station that has three ports instead of four. This unit has a sliding back that you can fit your power strip into, but ours was just a slight bit too fat for the case, so we had to place it outside. And since there's only a maximum of three things you can charge and display simultaneously, you could get away with one of those smaller power strips instead of a full sized one.

If we had to choose between this and the Cellphone Charging station above, we'd go with the leather one. Being able to charge four gadgets at a time is always better than three, and to us the construction of this PDA one seems lousier. Then again, you can mount this to the wall, but that'll introduce a new set of issues about how to snake the power up.

cordorganizer.jpgThe cord storage & organizer, however, is more for safekeeping rather than display. There are nine pouches total (5 top level, 4 bottom level) where you can shove in both chargers and cables. This means even if you don't have one of the charging stations above, you can easily store your phone, iPod, or even laptop charger when you're not using it. We found each pouch to be spacious enough to accommodate just about all our cellphone chargers no matter how fat. Plus, the two-level system works well in keeping stuff you don't use very much away from stuff you use every day.

travelpouch.jpgLastly, there's the travel pouch. Honestly, we would have loved to have this before we went on vacation, but whatever. The travel pouch is a square-ish container that you can shove chargers, cellphones, and cables into whenever you travel. Add to that a space for a surge protector and you can pretty much guarantee all your gadgets will be charged wherever you go. Plus, there's even a little coat hanger attached on the top so you can hang it up in your hotel closet. Nice.

Although we wouldn't recommend buying all four unless you were really, really anal about keeping cables out of sight, you could probably find one unit that fits your needs.

Product Page [Kangaroom]

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<![CDATA[KangaRoom Power Strip Organizer Hides Your Shame]]> The area under our desk is a prime fire zone seeing since the wires and power strips are all tied in the biggest knot this side of Gordium. That's fine hidden under a desk, but awful in the living room or somewhere that actual people can see. Voila, the Black Box Cord organizer from KangaRooM. It's a plastic heat resistant acrylic box with sliding doors and five ventilation strips that goes over your power strip, both neatly arranging your plugs and suspending stuff like AC bricks and small routers so they don't get tangled up.

The Black Box is a bit pricey at $60, so unless you're really anal, it's probably better just to handle your cord situation yourself.

Black Box Cord Organizer [Kangaroom Storage]

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<![CDATA[Desk Cable Organizer For the Rich and Anal]]> Given that the cables on our mesk (combination of desk and mess) has more knots than a speedboat, we're not exactly the target market for this Bird-Electron cable organizer. But if you're truly anal about keeping your desk clean (ahem), then you're going to want to invest in this little beauty.

Costing $55 straight from Japan, this cable organizer takes in various iPod, RCA, Zune, USB or charger cables through one of its many pre-drilled holes. Sure, it'll brighten up your desk so that you can actually work, but is it worth it? After all, messy desk, creative mind, and all that.

Product Page [Audiocubes via Slashgear]

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<![CDATA[The Shoe Rolodex]]> There's not a day that goes by that we're thankful our own females don't own 18 pairs of shoes in the entire spectrum of the rainbow as illustrated in the picture on the left. But if yours does, this Rakku Designs shoe rolodex will keep your footwear as organized as your contacts.

At a price of only $65, it's comparable to other shoe organizers and shoe trees, but is more compact so you can fit—they claim—30 pairs of shoes in it. However, it only fits up to a men's 10.5, so we're out of luck.

Product Page [Rakku Designs via Gadget Candy via uber gizmo]

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<![CDATA[Schoolhouse for OS X: Helping Mactarded Students Find Time to Waste]]> schoolhouse-1.pngHow many of you are reading this article when they should be getting some homework done? Tsk, Tsk. Well, we're not here to scold you: Keep clicking on those gadgets while you fail out of school, slacker! No? Well here's a fantastic scheduler for the kids called Schoolhouse by Logan Collins.

Schoolhouse takes the typical to-do application and remixes it for the over achieving student. With such features as an "ask a teacher" button, a GPA calculator, or class calendar subscribing/publishing, Schoolhouse will help keep you on task. Or just let you know when you're not.

Schoolhouse even lets you export assignments to Apple's iCal or your iPod so that you can check on your project status on the go.

Although Schoolhouse doesn't have every features like the Step-by-Step completion options in iProcrastinate) it is free, well designed, and customizable.

Giz readers: what are you using to keep yourself on track? To the comments! Or, get an account here.

Schoolhouse [Lifehacker]

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<![CDATA[Use a Shoe Organizer To Organize Your Gadgets]]> Reader Thom brainstormed a new way to use clear shoe organizers to organize all the gadgets laying around.

I recently went to the local Container Store and found an awesome solution for the gadget whore. A plastic shoe holder that fits over my closet door is the perfect thing to keep track of all the little things that gets missed in the mad rush to work or the airport . Now I can have all my gadgets in plain view as well as all the cables and wires and attachments that seem to multiply when i bring home a new gadget.

Great idea Thom. Some of our readers are going to need more doors!

MacGyver Tip: Shoe holder gadget organizer [Lifehacker]

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