Protect from dirt?

hi all,
i just bought a 20" imac from apple and it's still at work all boxed up. i know when i bring it home it will soon become dirty. does anyone know of a company that sells protective sleeves specifically for imacs? i'm also looking for a screen protector, but most of them are 17" and not widescreen.
anyone know a place where i can buy them? how do you protect your imac from dust and grime?
G5 Mac OS X (10.3.2)

I use a product called "iKlear" to clean my screen. I only use them about every 3 months so it's cheap. The iMac has fans and everything else built in so IMO it's a bad idea to cover it up unless you are going to be away from the unit for a long time. Anyway this is the the product link: http://www.klearscreen.com/

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An application does something you don't expect, such as asking for permission to access your contacts, your location, or the Internet for no obvious reason.
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Hello,
Using Powershell it is easy.
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Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2009-06-02 16:10:08 -0700 (Tue, 02 Jun 2009)
Log Message:
Addendum to fix for BLZ-233 - adjust visibility of new internal heartbeat util methods to protected from private.
QA: No
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