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You know iFixit from their Mac repair guides and parts. (They estimate they’re the second-largest supplier of Mac parts next to Apple.) Now they’re expanding to create repair guides and manuals for everything.
We’ve covered Windows 7 from rumour to release candidate, which you can currently download and install for free. Now, it’s enchilada time: Here’s everything of value that we learned about Win 7, packed in a complete, easy-to-read guide.
For those of us who don’t remember life before the NES, Boing Boing uncovered a collection of vintage instruction manuals, ads, hang tags and more, which give us a glimpse of gadgets from the past.
Go and download Crackberry’s leaked BlackBerry Storm user manual now, because we can guarantee that when you actually get your hands on the phone, you won’t slow down to flip through all 249 pages to figure out how to add photos to your contacts. It’s just a little over a meg, so if you’re at all interested in the touchscreen-enabled BlackBerry, there you are. Oh and don’t forget to check out our hands on with it as well. [CrackBerry]
I have this thing about instruction manuals. For some reason, I refuse to look at it when setting up a new gadget no matter how complicated things are. I break down eventually when I get stuck, but there is no reason why I shouldn’t go to it right off the bat and save some time. Maybe it’s a man thing, maybe it’s because I’m not patient enough to read before digging into a new device—maybe it’s both. Whatever the reason, I don’t think I will ever change. But what about you? Do you read your gadget instruction manuals?
