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Dealing with kitchen trash can be a major hassle. Not only do you have to take care of the trash itself, but the smell can be a whole different problem. The 15-Inch Undercounter Trash Compactor from Maytag can handle both issues, though. It can reduce the volume of your trash by as much as 80 percent, making it easier to get out to the curb. The compactor also has a fan with a built-in charcoal filter to handle odors and keep your kitchen smelling fresh. It even has a QuietSeries sound insulation system to minimize the noise the compactor makes. … Read more

Apple's new "Put Back" feature in OS X 10.6 is convenient for items you have in the trash which you would like to restore to their original locations. Before Snow Leopard, you would have to manually locate and drag the file back to where it came from. Despite this convenience, there may be times when you select files to restore, and the "Put Back" option in the "File" menu is greyed out, and is missing from contextual menus.… Read more

We've covered a number of problems that people have had with the trash in OS X, and a few months ago I wrote a tutorial on how to remove and reset the trash in OS X, which can be used to clear a few common trash misbehaviors. While various problems such as those we've previously covered can happen to the OS X trash, there are some built-in behaviors that may appear as a problem if they are activated when people do not know it.… Read more

Trash problems may periodically crop up for OS X users, mainly because of permissions issues that prevent a user either from accessing files in the the trash folder, or from accessing the folder itself. When this happens, you may see problems such as files deleting immediately without going to the trash, deleted files reappearing in the trash, or files persisting in the trash and not deleting (sometimes without an error message).… Read more

Because the Finder is the default interface for OS X many people may not realize it is actually a standalone application with its own settings. Instead, people may look for settings and options in the System Preferences, assuming the Finder is an integral part of the system.… Read more

When I'm in the middle of cooking, I don't like throwing anything away. It's not because I don't have stuff to throw away; instead, I just don't want to have to stop and wash my hands after touching the dirty lid of the trash can. The iTouchless Fully Automatic Trashcan opens up the lid without requiring you to actually touch it, letting you keep your hands clean as you work with food. It closes tightly in order to minimize odors. The trash can's lid will open instantly when trash or a hand is within … Read more

Ever sit around with your friends talking about how great the world would be if only someone would invent your supercool and totally useful widget? The community at quirky is based on the idea that everyone has a product idea. It's a social product development company. Would-be inventors submit ideas, the community works on them, voting, making suggestions, and so on, and one product each week is chosen to move onto development.

During the development phase, community members continue to exert their influence, and eventually products are offered for presale. When a product has a certain number of committed … Read more

The OS X trash is a relatively simple concept: you put something in it as a temporary location before you throw it out, and when you do throw it out, it is--for the most part--permanently removed. The trash has been this way for years, with the only additional option being the recent "put away" feature in Snow Leopard. Despite its simplicity, periodically, you may run into problems with how the trash behaves, such as the inability to remove files from it, or the system warning about files on local drives being removed immediately.… Read more

It's 10 p.m. Do you know where your trash is? A new project from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology hopes to find out.

A team of MIT researchers announced on Wednesday a project called Trash Track, designed to monitor trash from start to finish. The team will electronically tag different pieces of waste to trace their voyage through the disposal systems of New York City and Seattle.

By examining the patterns and costs of waste disposal, MIT hopes to educate people about the impact of garbage on the environment and make them aware of what they throw out.… Read more