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Keyboard Cleaner: Questionably Useful

Dropped a piece of potato chip into your MacBook Pro’s keyboard and can’t shut down for risk losing that torrent just to clean it out? This is where one of the most questionably useful applications to be released comes into play.

Keyboard Cleaner was developed by Jan Lehnardt, mostly for the laptop crowd. Keyboard Cleaner blanks the screen and render the keyboard useless, making it possible to clean out any unwanted gunk from between your keys. When finished, Apple+Q gets you back to whatever it was you were doing before that food/dirt/fingernail/etc. went astray and ruined your blogging session. Anothe use could be locking down the keyboard when walking away from your computer to prevent feline or canine interference with your latest script.

It’s only a 36kb download and Keyboard Cleaner has been released as donationware. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I just lost a piece of my Tostito in my keyboard..

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    Rennervater said on

    February 16th, 2007 at 3:14 pm

    This would be soooo useful!!! Why cant windows users come up with stuff like this??

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    Yohannes Wijaya said on

    February 16th, 2007 at 3:35 pm

    this is one of my regularly used app. it’s a timesaver and gets the job done.

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    shadownight said on

    February 16th, 2007 at 4:10 pm

    Stop a torrent by shutting down? I assume that torrent would be of legal nature… ;)

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    Yohannes Wijaya said on

    February 16th, 2007 at 4:18 pm

    or educational purpose

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    Jeremy said on

    February 16th, 2007 at 8:15 pm

    well if you use a good torrent client then you dont have to worry about losing it…

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    Dustin said on

    February 16th, 2007 at 9:41 pm

    A separate app just for this? TextEdit, anyone?

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    Alex said on

    February 18th, 2007 at 9:59 am

    This is nice, I usually just pop up textedit, but blanking the screen would help me find all those smudges that are hard to see when it’s lit.

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    William said on

    February 19th, 2007 at 8:03 pm

    Does it do more than just textedit?
    I wonder, because if you type the right (or maybe WRONG) combination of keys, such as Cmd+Q, Cmd+Tab, Cmd+W, etc, it would switch away to another app that you could wreak havoc in.

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    Vince said on

    June 11th, 2007 at 9:25 am

    Good work! I like it!
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    Opal Tribble said on

    January 19th, 2008 at 6:31 am

    I’ve actually been looking for something like this. My MacBook Pro quickly gets dirty. I occasionally find strands of my pet’s hair trapped in the keyboard.

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    May 9th, 2008 at 4:13 am

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