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- unloud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17I'm not sure about you, but taking a keyboard into the shower with me seems a little....much. I love PCs, but that's just wrong.
- pixelperfect, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Try this:
1. Put it in the dishwasher / washing machine
2. Take it out and take photos of it all soaked and wet.
3. Post the photos to a new blog at isoakedmymacbook.com and write how you would like everyone to dontate to you via pay-pal you for a new MacBook, because you destroyed your old one.
4. Earn enough money from Idiots.
5. Buy a MacBook.
6. Enjoy, your nice and clean MacBook. - andrewa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Pah! I tyink ebervody lows yhe rxact livatipn ov wach ley pm thqre leybpard.
- sinooka, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11"no one actually remembers what it looks like"
I accept your challenge. - theblooms, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12While I don't have an Apple, I do have a Microsoft Natural keyboard that I clean in the dishwasher. Yes, the dishwasher! I remove the very small PC board from the inside, along with the same 3 sheets that this guy is talking about and then just put it through a dishwasher cycle with the rest of the dishes.
Works great, and is extremely easy. It only takes 5 minutes to disassemble my keyboard, and another 5 minutes to put it back together. Most of that time is the 7 or 8 screws holding the bottom on. - unloud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Thanks!
- katanna, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I just open a TXT file and use a pencil to push the button and see what text pops up.
Matthew - wush, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9step 1: remove the keys, clean them
step 2: clean the keyboard
step 3: put the keys back
rocket science!!! - CharlesDarwin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I always turn the heat dry off too.
- czer323, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3http://www.duggmirror.com
- DeezKnots, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"C'mon... "how to clean a keyboard" - is this really the epitome of all that is newsworthy and exciting in the tech world ... ?"
It is a tech tip for those of use who use this keyboard. Move on / Get over it. - pixelperfect, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Yes.
- Denver80203, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Dishwasher works great... do NOT heat dry.
Also Windex and a dry paintbrush is a great way to get most the crud off the keys. - unloud, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3That's great! Now, I need one for the Macbook.
- artman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If you don't have a camera or just to lazy to photograph your keyboard before cleaning, here's a GIS of "Apple keyboard layout" with images to choose and view.
http://www.spymac.com/upload/news/2005/09/27/m3261_Apple%20keyboard.jpg
Cleaning the keys are all well and good, but I need a step-by-step of cleaning the bottom of the keyboard. - darkamster07, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I have been waiting for this for so long! my keyboard is absolutely repulsive! I have spilled chips, cereal, and other various crap in all those small spaces, I also spilled cherry soda so that my "c" and "2" keys stick like *****!
BTW, nice bathtub dude, you should see mine! (the wall is falling apart on the right side) - StarManta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The numpad's arithmatic operations are easy to mess up because apple's setup is a little different than most.
Other than that I'm good. - arizonabay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"WAAA! WAAAA!"
Aww. Poor baby, don't cry: mama warmed up a bottle of http://www.duggmirror.com just for you! - balazs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1there is dugg mirror az arizona pointed out. no need to bury and article because bandwidth is out!
- Cory70, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Obviously,pc users are smarter we dont need links to tell us how to clean our keyboard
- clith, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hahahah... Dugg mirror says:
Bandwidth Limit Exceeded
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to
the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later.
LOL, mirrored error pages. How useful! - nunofgs, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Take my advice if you decide to do this on your powerbook/macbook pro:
Be *very* careful while taking out the keys. They are very fragile. If one of them breaks you will have to buy a completely new keyboard and you know how apple charges for that stuff. - rompom7, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2i agree.. while taking a photo of it is the logical thing to do, i don't think it would be hard for anyone that has used a computer for more than a year to know where every key is.
- zpjet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You don't need to take a picture, just open "Keyboard Viewer" in your "Input Menu" (if enabled in System Preferences > International).
For power users, select this path: /System/Library/Components/KeyboardViewer.component/Contents/SharedSupport/KeyboardViewerServer.app and open it using services: [your browser's menu] > Services > Finder > Open (works only in cocoa apps). - antdude, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Just buy a new one. :P
- overeasyeggs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1not that the article was all that insightful, it did prompt my lazy ass to finally clean my keyboard, so thanks.
- alienpi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Me: "Do you ever get that not-so-fresh feeling?"
Keyboard: "Yes, sometimes."
Me: "Well, I'm going to wash you and cover you with a silicon cover." - crossers, on 07/03/2008, -0/+0Cause I haven't apple kewbord so I can't say anything about it!
http://www.ocflex.com/
http://www.trgovinca.org
http://www.chasr.org/ - Dampkring04, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0thx... just washed my keyboard! i used a tupperware instead of the plastic bag... worked well! looks brand new :D
- spudmanster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Man, wasting time cleaning a keyboard. Just don't eat like a pig over the thing to begin with. Reminds me of the time one of our Notes guys (super geek) spent about 2 hours cleaning his keyboard at work. Getting paid to do it. So, naturally before he made it in to work the next day we were forced to burn toast and crumble it back into the keyboard.
He was mighty pissed. - H0LLIS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The dishwasher works well for me. Leave the dirty dishes out of this cycle. I had to send the 2 guinnie pig keybards a 2nd time through.
- nofxjunkee, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I think most diggers can touch type and probably could put their keyboard back without photos. Now that I think about it, who hasn't done that at least once?
And these steps can be used for any keyboard not just Apple ones. - balazs, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1lol!
- yannicwalter, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Well I forgot to take a photo but I remembered the postion of every single key.
Am I a geek?? - salzstangen, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2 I had to do this ...and more. During a drunken night, showing off fotos on my flatmates computer, I managed to spill a shot of Jägermeister on the keyboard. After recovering from the hangover I had to take the whole thing apart to clean the contact pad inside with white spirit.
I agree with you wush, if you need a 'how to..' to do this , then you probably need one to tie your shoe laces everyday. - yannicwalter, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1damn.
- TeqnoHaxor, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Bandwidth exceeded - buried.
- salzstangen, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0 As I said earlier , I had to do this after spilling Jägermeister on a friends keyboard.
My advice is just to get a big clean table and as you remove each part just lay them out in the order you remove them. Its not hard. BTW , there are 2 (I think) screws hidden under a metal sticker on the bottom of the keyboard. - Javamancer, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0That made me sneeze guinn-...
1) Get adsense account
2) Ruin Keyboard
3) ????
4)Profit!
Even I think thats lame :( - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1I am a great fan of many Apple products (I use an iMac at home and a MacBook on the go, along with an iPod nano) but I think that Apple's keyboards and mice are some of the weakest I've ever used.
I'm especially unimpressed with the wireless ones which offer poor battery life from a ridiculously overpriced initial cost. I got rid of mine and picked up a fantastic Logitech S530 Cordless Desktop for Mac which doesn't have nearly so many dodgy little crevasses that dirt can slip into. - patm1987, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3I think you got that a little wrong
step 1) remove the keys, clean them
step 2) ???
step 3) Profit!!!!
and that, my friends, is rocket science - f00xx0riz3r, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Next up: assembling LEGO for fun and profit - WITH APPLE!
- poseitom, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1indeed, just rinse it under the tap or take it into the shower…and then wait for two days to dry up
- damber, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1
Thank all that is sane in this world that I am not the only one that thinks this is ridiculously lame...
C'mon... "how to clean a keyboard" - is this really the epitome of all that is newsworthy and exciting in the tech world ... ?
If you believe it is (and you must to have voted it to the front page) then you are missing out on a LOT........
...how embarrasing for digg. - pauldonnelly, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1Apple's keyboards just feel wrong. Never before has a keyboard felt so off that I couldn't even put my hands on it. And it's stupidly hard to click and drag with their mice. I can't imagine how a company with supposedly good designs could do such a bad job on the most important parts of a computer.
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