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Awesome DIY Helping Hands

Now occasionally, I stumble across real cool hacks. This one came out top today: How to make a helping hands soldering station out of material you already very likely have, at about no costs – and that beats every el cheapo Chinese rubbish big time. Only mod I’d do...

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How to run a SuperDrive on a USB Hub

Jeff Grundy has made an awesome suggestion on how to make an Apple SuperDrive work on a USB Hub. As a background, Apple supports running these drives only when connected directly to the computer. They also work when connected to a ThunderBolt display, but you’ll get a warning saying the...

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Rip DVDs on Mavericks…

So I was very much not amused when loading a DVD into my “Superdrive” – and it opening the DVD Player application, requesting me to enter a region code – and ejecting the DVD when aborting the process. Moving the DVD app out of the way (or changing the...

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