Cleaning Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Dear Aunt TUAW: Help me keep my keyboard clean and white

by Erica Sadun (Aug 7th, 2011)

Dear Aunt TUAW, Got any good tips for keeping the white keys of the Apple keyboard clean? Having switched to a desktop setup, I'm no longer using the black keys of my MacBook and typing basically constantly trying to write my thesis is starting make the white keys of the external look a little ...

Magic Eraser magically cleans your Apple products

by Sang Tang (Aug 3rd, 2010)

Besides its usefulness cleaning walls, tables and shoes, the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser is excellent at cleaning many Apple products. If your white MacBook is starting to look brown and your Apple iPad Case has stains from who knows where, the Magic Eraser just may be your solution. And at $2.99 for a ...

Keep your Mac tidy with MacKeeper

by Dave Caolo (Jun 14th, 2010)

You love your Mac and you want to keep it happy and healthy. Regular updates are a means to that end, but only a part of what's necessary. Additional TLC that your Mac will find beneficial include clearing up space-hogging clutter like old cache files and unused binaries. Otherwise your hard drive ...

Keeping your screen clean

by Christina Warren (Jan 11th, 2008)

Although I can be a bit of a slob, I'm pretty anal retentive when it comes to keeping my electronics clean. That goes triple for my MacBook. Although I was pretty scrupulous with my last laptop, the glossy screen and black casing that shows all have required me to become even more attentive. Even ...

OCD Spotlight: Flossing your Mighty Mouse

by Erica Sadun (Dec 12th, 2006)

Recently, TUAW discussed how to clean your apple keyboard. Today, we focus on delinting your Mighty Mouse. Without taking it apart. Brendan Fenn, photographer and clean aficionado, has discovered a new way to clean the Mighty Mouse scroll ball that goes beyond the conventional dust free cloth and ...

How to clean your Apple Keyboard

by Erica Sadun (Nov 17th, 2006)

OCD sufferers of the world unite! Do the little bits and bobs of dirt and fluffy things that grow in your keyboard annoy you? Are you tired of trying to q-tip between your keys without really getting the job done? Fortunately for you, you're not alone. Website the mini Blog offers a great how-to ...

Why Apple's Mighty Mouse is like the Apple III

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Oct 16th, 2006)

If you're old enough to remember the fiasco that was the Apple III, you may know what I'm talking about. The Apple III was supposed to be Apple's business computer. It flopped, in part because Steve Jobs demanded no fans were to be used in cooling the beast. The result? The machine would overheat, ...

How to Clean Your Mighty Mouse

by Damien Barrett (Jun 28th, 2006)

Apple has released an updated technical support document on the proper way to clean your Mighty Mouse. As much as I like my Mighty Mouse, I do have to clean it way more often than I ever had to clean my other mice like the basic two-button/scrollwheel Logictech one that I've been using for years. ...

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