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No more USB cables behind your desk for losses <€ 1

How often are you the one that you (USB) cable disappears behind the desk? And you need the knees to the cable back above table, no it is not pleasant office.

A very easy and inexpensive solution to a few binder clips (to be known as banker's clips or foldback clips called). Squeeze the legs of one eye to eye together to get out of the clip so you can easily make over the cable. Make eye back on the binder clip. Cliff the binder clip to the edge of your desk (eg behind your monitor) and go!

Binder clips are for sale in a commercial office or maybe you even have office located somewhere. The binder clips on these images cost me only € 0.35 each.

Very easy, especially if you have a laptop but no docking station! (Photos by drbakker.)

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David Rudolf Bakker (1980) is a usability expert, professional speaker and freelance marketing and communications.

"Coming up with attractive and simple solutions to complex problems for me is the best there is."

Loves technology, photography, travel, podcasts, audio books, Web 2.0 (Twitter!) And passionate people

If anyone is wondering, the idea apparently originated with David Rudolf Bakker's blog (Dutch). The original post has since been moved to the lifehacking.nl blog (also Dutch).

Chrome's Engrish translation:

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Ist kinder crude, ja, but ist thinkken you get der gist.

No more USB cables behind my desk for losses?! I'm sold!

No more USB cables behind your desk for (losses < €1)

Author:	Rodahn [ Tue Mar 23, 2010 6:05 pm ]
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Methinks so.

Author:	Rynar [ Tue Mar 23, 2010 6:08 pm ]
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Brilliant!

Author:	Aethien [ Tue Mar 23, 2010 8:48 pm ]
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**** genius.

Author:	FarSky [ Tue Mar 23, 2010 8:59 pm ]
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Win.

Author:	Colphax [ Wed Mar 24, 2010 3:49 am ]
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I read that as "Epic way too short electronic cables"...LOL Great idea, though!

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Author:	Vindicarre [ Wed Mar 24, 2010 6:34 am ]
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Will use!

Author:	Hokanu [ Wed Mar 24, 2010 7:45 am ]
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Damn. Off to the office store..

Author:	Stathol [ Wed Mar 24, 2010 9:53 am ]
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You have no idea how much frustration this is going to prevent for me.

Author:	Stathol [ Wed Mar 24, 2010 10:09 am ]
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If anyone is wondering, the idea apparently originated with David Rudolf Bakker's blog (Dutch). The original post has since been moved to the lifehacking.nl blog (also Dutch). Chrome's Engrish translation: Quote: No more USB cables behind your desk for losses <€ 1 How often are you the one that you (USB) cable disappears behind the desk? And you need the knees to the cable back above table, no it is not pleasant office. A very easy and inexpensive solution to a few binder clips (to be known as banker's clips or foldback clips called). Squeeze the legs of one eye to eye together to get out of the clip so you can easily make over the cable. Make eye back on the binder clip. Cliff the binder clip to the edge of your desk (eg behind your monitor) and go! Binder clips are for sale in a commercial office or maybe you even have office located somewhere. The binder clips on these images cost me only € 0.35 each. Very easy, especially if you have a laptop but no docking station! (Photos by drbakker.) Author David Rudolf Bakker (1980) is a usability expert, professional speaker and freelance marketing and communications. "Coming up with attractive and simple solutions to complex problems for me is the best there is." Loves technology, photography, travel, podcasts, audio books, Web 2.0 (Twitter!) And passionate people Ist kinder crude, ja, but ist thinkken you get der gist.

Author:	FarSky [ Wed Mar 24, 2010 10:15 am ]
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No more USB cables behind my desk for losses?! I'm sold!

Author:	Hokanu [ Wed Mar 24, 2010 10:34 am ]
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But Stathol.. my desk is thick. Do they make binder clips for me too?

Author:	Screeling [ Wed Mar 24, 2010 10:52 am ]
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Stathol wrote: If anyone is wondering, the idea apparently originated with David Rudolf Bakker's blog (Dutch). The original post has since been moved to the lifehacking.nl blog (also Dutch). Chrome's Engrish translation: Quote: No more USB cables behind your desk for losses <€ 1 How often are you the one that you (USB) cable disappears behind the desk? And you need the knees to the cable back above table, no it is not pleasant office. A very easy and inexpensive solution to a few binder clips (to be known as banker's clips or foldback clips called). Squeeze the legs of one eye to eye together to get out of the clip so you can easily make over the cable. Make eye back on the binder clip. Cliff the binder clip to the edge of your desk (eg behind your monitor) and go! Binder clips are for sale in a commercial office or maybe you even have office located somewhere. The binder clips on these images cost me only € 0.35 each. Very easy, especially if you have a laptop but no docking station! (Photos by drbakker.) Author David Rudolf Bakker (1980) is a usability expert, professional speaker and freelance marketing and communications. "Coming up with attractive and simple solutions to complex problems for me is the best there is." Loves technology, photography, travel, podcasts, audio books, Web 2.0 (Twitter!) And passionate people Ist kinder crude, ja, but ist thinkken you get der gist. Which once again proves my theory: Germans love David Hasselhoff.

Author:	Stathol [ Wed Mar 24, 2010 12:40 pm ]
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FarSky wrote: No more USB cables behind my desk for losses?! I'm sold! Heh. I think they meant: Quote: No more USB cables behind your desk for (losses < €1) But it is definitely not a pleasant office when there are losses of cables. I hate when I need the knees to the cable!

Author:	Rorinthas [ Wed Mar 24, 2010 1:45 pm ]
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They make some fairly thick clips.

Author:	Midgen [ Wed Mar 24, 2010 5:52 pm ]
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On the larger clips, you could just either crimp the wire a little tighter with some pliers or something, or wrap a rubber band around the narrow part of the opening once you've threaded the cable through. Nice, simple, effective. {edited silly typos}

Author:	Stathol [ Wed Mar 24, 2010 10:36 pm ]
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Okay...not that I wasn't warned, but why on earth would someone upload a 2592 x 1944 photo of a binder clip? The mind boggles.

Author:	Uinan [ Fri Mar 26, 2010 2:57 pm ]
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That is brilliant.

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Author:	Jeryn [ Wed Mar 24, 2010 3:12 pm ]
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^^^Linky to OfficeMax... I suppose also that if the binder clip gets too big to prevent the cable from falling through, you could always just increase the cable thickness with a rubber band. Also, spoilered for hugeness: Spoiler: