Laptop Screen Cleaning Hack

I just stumbled on this and wanted to make it widely known.

You know how when you want to clean your laptop screen, it's hard to see all the smudges and streaks because of the bright backlight?

Sure, you can put it to sleep, but if your computer's anything like mine, just breathing nearby wakes it and renders all the dust and fingerprints and coffee splashes etc. pretty much invisible again.

But what's most vexing is having to use your microfiber cloth on the screen in its position of function: it's tiring and inefficient and ergonomically taxing.

In the video above, you can see my nifty discovery in action.

Just tip the computer 90° such that the side of the screen is flat against a firm surface and all of a sudden you have an easy task that's much faster than the old way.