Cable Management

USB 3 just came out lol

no…

its called being sarcastic, ever heard of it?

I manage my connected cables like you manager yours in the draw =) The key is tucking the cables behind the table so no one can see them. hehe

Zip ties are my best friend when it comes to cable management. That is, until you need to move them

i have a corner desk so i dont have to worry bout cables

Amen my friend.

hows that the cables are still there right??

Chris also made this cord management tips a few months ago:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=EedQG_M0VrY

Great tips!
I really need those.
btw another tip is to use cable ties (i.e http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:9vsSKG2ByHJAIM:http://www.shaxon.com/part_images/6/MD88-06_09_12.jpg)

I’ve had very good luck with my trusty Cable Turtles: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=2&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcableorganizer.com%2Fcable-turtle%2F&ei=iR-1R9avIIK4eqKO4doM&usg=AFQjCNGr69Gsq09y_q-C2cc0OrN0Nz9iiQ&sig2=OhAJarfn_XlY3UY5g1RhBg

actually, for cables ( i am a amateaur audio-visual technician (mabey that sounds too pro….)) but for me i use the white masking tape thing and use a black sharpie on cords to keep them organized. if you have enough cords, get a board with holes in it (you know, like for tools) and use that to store cables on. power on one side, data on the other.

or he/she runs everything off of battery’s

Hey Chris Nice Video… I Label All Cables and power supplies With My IDPal (Google IDPal) it rocks it’s around $100.00 but well worth it the money. I also use the Velcro Roll like you do to keep all cable neat… I have Belkin 7 port hub and keep it under my Dual Monitors. I’m a neat Freak…

Wired_Wrong

Can’t exactly tell if your being sarcastic in text!

good point.

Yeah but you dont see them

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yeh, the cables are still there, but you can run them along the back of the desk so they dont show up

Ahaha, all my cables are hidden, but if you were to see them, you would probably be sick XD

lol i got more audio cables ;)

There are really excellent re-usable Velcro cable wraps that I use all the time.

One more caveat. Never ever twist a cable when coiling it. This includes all cables; extension cords, microphone cords, AV, PC…….. When you coil them let them follow the natural path of the inner wires. It used to make me cringe when a fellow technician would use his palm and elbow as a wire spool, and then pull tightly while wrapping the cable around it. This absolutely destroys the inner wire strands, which are not as flexible as the outer rubber/vinyl jacket. You’ll have landfill fodder in no time flat if you do this repeatedly.

:O you have a wife

good tips, chris. i would use them, but i (hopefully) am soon going to get a laptop. plus, i’m too lazy xP.

i have a corner desk and yes i can run the cables behind the back but i still have a mountain of cables behind there and do still have to “think bout them”

It’s not a good idea to trip over these, either! I almost killed my laptop by tripping over one! Keep them away from your feet!

it’s also important to manage the cables in your PC case as well for better heat management. not only the cables outside the computer case.

Hey Chris Nice Video… I Label All Cables and power supplies With My IDPal (Google IDPal) it rocks it’s around $100.00 but well worth it the money. I also use the Velcro Roll like you do to keep all cable neat… I have Belkin 7 port hub and keep it under my Dual Monitors. I’m a neat Freak…

same here, i have a hell of a time trying to get wires out if if have to remove something or unhook my computer to work on it.

this show is pointless

Agreed it’s boring and it’s pointless

Don’t hate his show. Just cause you have no life. he’s helping people.. THis is what he does. so if you dont like it. dont watch videos by lockergnome

I am vary bad at cable management. When I actually have time to cable manage its just shoving the cable’s under the carpet along the walls.

Ha Ha Ha Chris Went Like The Tape Fallen and want ah i felt i was laughing for a hour pause at 04:00 And Play Its Funny

For the cables that the store in boxes, drawers, or in laptop cases I look for something that is cheap, easy, and able to be labeled with a marker. Something that fits all of these characteristics, is paper towel rolls or toilet paper rolls. All you have to do is wrap your cables up and push them through the opening of the paper towel/toilet paper roll. This is something that everyone has in their house and usually has a good supply off. After all, what else would you do with the rolls? Throw them away, what a waste of a product that can be recycled.

Another alternative to using rubber bands (the break or degrade over time) and paper tubes (they still fall out of the tubes) is to use zip lock type sandwich and storage bags.

Smaller cables and shorter lengths go in the sandwich bag size, wall warts and longer cables in the quart size and sets of cables and devices in the gallon size. Since they are see-through you can look at the contents, they don’t get twisted with each other and you can group stuff like cables and connectors if they are matching set or functionality.

Cliffystones is kind of right, but you can use your hand or arm to coil cables so long as you aren’t forcing the cable to twist. For computers and home AV equipment, the cable length is usually less than six feet so by letting one end dangle and loosely wrapping you won’t damage the cable. If it is a long length this won’t work as the cable’s mass and friction with the surface stop it from turning as you wrap it. In that case, you have to do just as Cliffystones said or else the shielding or cable fibers will break (depending on the type of cable).

Over the last week I’ve been redoing my entire home office. My new desk came so I had to rearrange everything. I still have some more work ahead of me but I think the most difficult stuff is done now.

The cable mess when I disconnected everything was unbelievable. It took me about 2 days before I finally had everything reconnected again. I did like you and put all the cords and clutter behind my desk. No one can see it and that’s the way I like it.

I have to admit, I am a cable nazi, i HATE cables, I always have.. even when playing in my band, I carry a piece of carpet with me so I can cover all the cables… the same goes for computers… i HATE having cables visible. I have a lot of cables in my office set up because I have a lot of stuff in my office (3 monitors, soundboard, monitors, audio interfaces, ipods, external drives, burners) stuff like that, so wire management is a MUST. My desk is PERFECT for wire management, because it was pretty much made to hide wires (its the Mikale Desk from Ikea) and it has a board across the bottom which acts as a support, but what I did was screw on a few shelf hooks, and that allows me to set all my wires on the shelf. I use suggest using VELCRO zip ties. I use to use the plastic ones(and there are still some plastic ones in the pics that follow), but I rearrange my desk FAR to often and having to cut plastic zip ties and buy new ones was getting annoying (your local dollar store should sell Velcro zip ties) so when you look at my desk, you would assume that it has a mess of wires, but the truth is, the only wire you can see is the power bar chord (i put a power bar on the shelf that I put the wires on, so everything can just plug into that, and it cuts down on the wires you see.

heres a few pics of my desk for proof that you can have a lot of stuff that has wires, but not have a mess of wires!

Perspective view:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisburke/2280530968/in/set-72157603949079230/

Ground View:
http://img.skitch.com/20080221-fc2twnebqq9a3udmqbgxkye4fg.jpg

And when you get under there, you can see the wires, but who sits under a desk:
http://img.skitch.com/20080221-8fdsc5nkk2du9ewdf1cjkehe95.jpg

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hes not fat or ugly, why wouldnt he have a wife? (not saying fat + ugly people cant get wives ) funny guy..

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