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- brixon 17y agolooks expensive, you will have to put in procurement request with approval from three levels of management accompanied with a two paragraph justification of need. This will get processed in four weeks.
- Devilboy 17y agoAsk accounts to print out a copy of last month's statements so you can 'double check the billings'. It will waste a couple of reams but you'll get your clips by Monday.
- johnohara 17y agoBeen using this solution for quite some time. Works great. Found it on lifehacker.com. Using plastic rain gutter as a wire trough is another good one.
- benologist 17y agoThat is just awesome.
- bjelkeman-again 17y agoSimple solution to a common problem, using everyday objects, which anyone can implement. Love it.
- tel 17y agoI've been using velcro and double-sided tape, but I think this method is even better.
- jrockway 17y agoNot elegant, but better than nothing. This is why I usually only buy laptops with docking stations; much easier.
- davidedicillo 17y agoUsually buy the ones with an awesome OS. Those don't come with docks. ;)
- Murkin 17y agoAnyone knows what is the first connector on the left ?
- andrewf 17y agoIt's an Apple Magsafe connector.
- cubicle67 17y agoThat's worth 13 votes?! I've taken to my mess of cables with a Dyno label maker. Each power brick tells me what it powers, and each usb cable tells me what it connects to (camera, printer etc. saves unplugging the wrong thing)
- pgebhard 17y agoKarma on HN is meaningless. Don't think otherwise.
- zavulon 17y agoI'm having a Saturday morning-induced brainfreeze. What is this "common object" called, so I can go to Staples and get it right now?
- jamiecobbett 17y agoA binder clip: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binder_clip http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binder_clip
- brk 17y agoI also use those binder-clip things to hold plastic bags (ie: like on snacks, etc.) closed after you've opened them.
- ableal 17y agoMy most confortable furniture hack is a monitor stand, cloned from one the local IKEA had on exhibit. Made by screwing 11cm Capita legs onto an Effektiv file frame front 80cm wide. Looks like this: http://imgur.com/rlxEK.jpg http://imgur.com/rlxEK.jpg It's also large enough for a monitor base on one side and a laptop on the other.
- blackguardx 17y agoI think that is just building something from parts. A hack implies something ultra rigged and ugly looking.
- ableal 17y agoI was taking it in the "not the intended use" sense, like the posted clips. And I 'll disagree that a good hack must look ugly ... for example, yesterday's beautiful Turing machine is a hack in my book. The stand's not my idea, anyway. Posted because of the title, someone else might like it. I'm alright ;-)
- ableal 17y agoAs long as I'm "selling" IKEA stuff (I wish, I just give them money ;-): in their kitchen area, there's a Dralla "cutting board". This is a pleasant piece of flexible matte plastic, a couple of millimeters thick, about the size of two sheets of paper, with rounded corners; I've seen it in dark-gray, blue and red. I use the Dralla as a writing pad, on the desk; some people seem to like it as a giant mouse-pad. (Not in the photo, the red thing is a thicker, smaller, unused mouse-pad.)
- gtani 17y agoi've always constructed monitor stands from phone books, but sometime in the near future, there won't be huge stacks of them for free at the supermarket
- ableal 17y agoFunny, I've used that exact technique before. This leaves space underneath to shove the keyboard away and have a go at the pencil and paper ...
- bravura 17y agoAlligator clips are also the best inexpensive way to mount flyers and paper art. Just use two alligator clips on the top, and thread a string, and hang the string from a tack or pin. Other solutions (like little tape squares, and the blue or white putty) can leave marks on the work. This solution assumes that you can make tiny holes in the wall.
- bmalicoat 17y agoI got some of these [1]. They look nice and can be stuck anywhere, not just the edge. The price seems a little high until you start using them and realize they are worth every penny. You can also find them a bit cheaper if you look around. 1. http://www.bluelounge.com/cabledrop.php http://www.bluelounge.com/cabledrop.php