Dear Aunt TUAW: Do I need my cable caps?
Dear Aunt TUAW,Wow, it's a new record! I opened my iPad Camera Connection Kit about 20 minutes ago and have already misplaced one of the caps ... Help me, Aunt TUAW. How do I keep my caps under control?
Love and hugs,
Your loving nephew Stevie
Dear Stevie,
Regardless of what Miss Francis, your typing teacher, said in 8th grade, we do not need to have control over everything in life. Learning to live sometimes means letting go, and that includes letting go of your Camera Connection Kit caps.
Sure, those caps are spiffy and fit your connectors just so, but in real life use, you don't really need them. You can safely dispose of them for recycling after unpacking your connectors. In my case, I find it much harder to remember where my connectors are than to worry about non-functional end caps.
What I do is this: I have a specific home for my connectors. I bought a small pencil box from Staples, and when my connectors are not attached to my iPad, I always put them back into the pencil box, along with my VGA cable. This box lives on my shelf in the iPhone/iPod/iPad accessories area. If you feel you must keep track of your caps, you may want to have a specific place for them to live (like my pencil box) when they're not attached to your connectors.
Love right backatcha,
Auntie T.
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I keep mine, they keep the dust/lint/fluff that builds up in bags/cases from getting into the connectors themselves.
Removing fluff from a magsafe or mini displayport connector is a lot easier than the 30-pin dock connector.
If you're concerned about misplacing the caps, tape them onto the plugs.
I know a guy who has kept the piece of plastic between the keyboard and the screen for the last 2 years. He still has it. I wonder if he uses all of his cable caps too?
June 03 2010 at 1:23 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyMaybe this is talking about something different... Are these "cable caps" those little plastic things that USB, HDMI, etc. cables have on the ends when they're in the package? For me, those things always get thrown out right away along with the twist-ties and plastic wrappings. I never saw any reason to keep them. I didn't even know they were intended to continue being used until this post.
June 02 2010 at 9:55 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWhere could I buy Apple Approved connectors caps ?
June 02 2010 at 7:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyIf they are not necessary then why are they included from the manufacturer?
June 02 2010 at 6:32 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyLet me obsess for a minute....
June 02 2010 at 5:57 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThese Aunt posts creep me out
Nice.
I always try to keep hold of these things. My storage place is in an Apple Retail Store bag that I got when buying some accessories.
It keeps them all tidy AND it's easy to find when I'm hunting under the bed!
I can't believe this was an actual question.
June 02 2010 at 4:39 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplySorry, I meant: I can't believe this was actually a question.
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