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it's time to spring clean techie style I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update with spring in the air you may have the urge to make a fresh start and jump on some spring cleaning but chores are hard and no fun in this special edition of CNN update you can pick up on a few tech tips to help freshen up your cleaning routine and get you better organized for starters who doesn't love making lists of things to do you feel so responsible and organized for writing down all the things and then there's the glory of crossing off the tasks you conquer well the app home routines gives your list a boost not only can you set tasks for different times of the day but you can be very specific about when some tasks repeat whether a chore is once a week twice a week every other week or even just on Saturdays it also offers a few suggestions for what to clean the catch is that the app isn't cheap it's five bucks but with the price you get the ability to sync your task list online to share with other family members at my home routine scom now if you rather make chores more of a competition you might like Norma it's free and the idea is that your family members or roommates will compete to see who can complete the most chores to earn the most points you can assign how many points a certain chores worth maybe loading the dishes in the dishwasher is only two points but mowing the lawn is 15 points Shores can also be set to repeat on a schedule you can make up your own rewards for an individual or group to redeem but you have to pay for the pro version to type in custom rewards when you make a reward for Charma it's really whatever sort of silly thing you want to make up but parents can give their kids real gift cards for completing chores with the app goody-goody it's very similar to trauma and that you get points but you can set every point to be worth one dollar toward a gift card for places like Toys R Us gamestop and footlocker to name a few but a parent has to put in a credit card to get those gift cards and they charge an extra one dollar per gift card so maybe you're better off just handling the allowance on your own terms with torma but if you have some spare cash just by a robot to do the chores for you to keep your garden growing there's the droplet it's a robot that can aim to water specific plants it also is smart enough to not water after a big rainstorm it's available for pre-orders now on amazon for three hundred dollars and neato is releasing a new line of vacuuming robots in mid-april the room up that's so yesterday the neato has a sensor to avoid ramming into your furniture and these new models have added side brushes to make sure they don't leave dirt behind and debris when they change direction the colorful new models start at four hundred and eighty dollars that's your tech news update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey