Cool Hunting: Eight Exciting iPad Cases

Eight Exciting iPad Cases

Keep your iPad protected with one of our favorite cases

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While we really like the slimness and functionality of Apple's iPad case, an accessory that exemplifies your personality and meets your needs can be hard to find. Below we highlight eight cases that stand out for their ingenuity both in design and style.

Timbuk2 Quickie

The nylon Quickie ($45) from Timbuk2 offers the most in utility. The bag easily fits the iPad and has two exterior pockets for business cards, cords, keys or essentials while on the go. The removable shoulder strap allows it to be carried messenger style or pull out the stow-away handles for a more formal approach.

Temple x Uncrate Leather Case

The black on black leather and canvas case by Temple for Uncrate ($160) goes from bag to stand, displaying the iPad both vertically and horizontally at a 45-degree angle. Meant for travel and adventure, the well-crafted resilient bag brings "art to life."

Kenton Sorenson x Context

A sophisticated leather portfolio, the forthcoming Kenton x Context case ($TBD) is handmade in Wisconsin using vegetable tanned leather that will age beautifully over time.

Acme Made Skinny Sleeve

Water and stain resistant, the neoprene Skinny Sleeve ($30) from Acme Made envelops the iPad resulting in minimal bulk and maximum protection. Available in black or white.

Case-Mate Traveler

Comprised of durable felt and leather, The Traveler ($50) is an elegant folio-style case that features storage pockets for business cards or pens while securing the iPad with a magnetic flap.

Dodo Case

Handmade from high-quality bamboo, the Moleskine-style Dodo case ($50) is a sturdy case and stand that props the iPad at a 60-degree angle for easy viewing and use. The Dodo weighs less than one pound, offers full access to all of the ports and headset jacks and keeps it secure with its fitted foam corners.

Belkin Envelope

Fully enclosing the iPad, the charming Envelope ($50) from Belkin (above left) keeps it sure with a button and string closure and microfiber inner lining.

Paul Smith Wool Wrapper

A colorful sleeve, the Paul Smith cashmere pinstripe wrapper (£25) protects the iPad with foam padding and elastic corner ties, eliminating bulk and adding to the iPad's already-classy composition.

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Stay tuned for an unveiling of our exciting collaboration with Speck as part of our CH iPad app promotion.

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iPad - US$ 1 bilhão em receita

Do UOL Tecnologia

13/05/2010 - 14h33

Vendas do iPad podem atingir US$ 1 bilhão em receita já no próximo mês

Da Redação

A Apple está perto de estabelecer um novo recorde com o sucesso das vendas do iPad. Uma análise feita pelo Yankee Group mostra que se o ritmo de compra dos consumidores for mantido nas próximas semanas, com a venda de 1,5 milhão de unidades do tablet, a empresa alcançará US$ 1 bilhão em receita já no mês de junho, uma marca jamais atingida por outro dispositivo. As informações são do ChannelWeb.

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Carl Howe, diretor do grupo "Anywhere Consumer" do Yankee Group, é o autor da análise. "O iPad será o produto de consumo que mais rápido atingiu a marca de US$ 1 bilhão em receita, com menos de 80 dias desde o começo das vendas até a marca histórica", afirmou o pesquisador.

Para chegar à marca histórica, Howe utilizou um preço médio de US$ 645 para o iPad. Ele mesmo lembra que os aparelhos de 16 GB e 64 GB são até o momento os mais populares e que a previsão é apenas um cálculo aproximado.

No entanto, outros fatos reforçam a ''teoria do bilhão'': o iPad atingiu uma marca de 1 milhão de dispositivos vendidos na metade do tempo que o iPhone. Além disso, a Apple ainda não começou a vender os iPads no mercado internacional. Portanto, a probabilidade de atingir a marca histórica em receita com os tablets é alta.

Isso quer dizer que a Apple também terá resultados financeiros igualmente altos? A questão não pode ser simplicada assim. Segundo o analista, a Apple determinou um preço agressivo para o tablet com o intuito de construir um market share no que parece ser uma nova categoria de dispositivos. O alto investimento no desenvolvimento e gastos no lançamento do tablet poderão contrabalancear a conta final dos ganhos da empresa com o novo tablet.

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10 Essential Apple iPad Productivity Apps for IT Pros

By Nicholas Kolakowski on 2010-05-09 The Apple iPad has sold more than 1 million units since its April 3 release, and while many consumers are using the device for multimedia consumption, business users are starting to experiment with how the tablet PC can work for them. A scan of the most popular productivity apps for the iPad, in its first four weeks of release, shows that many of those work-oriented users are using their device for file sharing, note taking, word processing and number crunching, and access to the cloud. The iPad may not serve as a desktop or laptop replacement quite yet, but the following 10 apps show the tablet has more use than simply being able to play "Iron Man."

Name: Dropbox
Price: Free
This app allows users to share files via e-mail, text message, or by copy and pasting links; files can also be exported to other iPad apps, or downloaded for offline viewing. It does require a Dropbox account

Name: Simplenote
Price: Free
This app allows you to create and edit text notes, as well as add links and build extras via a developer API. Users can also categorize and search through their notes.

Name: PaperDesk Lite for iPad
Price: Free

A "notebook replacement" app for iPad that lets users write on virtual paper (in multiple colors), e-mail a page in .PDF format, record audio while taking notes, bookmark pages to navigate, and draw. It also features spell-check.

Name: SkyGrid
Price: Free
SkyGrid uses a proprietary algorithm to determine the fastest-spreading topics and trends on the Internet, subdivided by category (Sci & Tech, etc.). Other features include the ability to create custom streams, receive live streaming updates and alert notifications

Name: Evernote
Price: Free
Evernote facilitates the creation of text, photo and audio notes, and the auto-syncing of those notes with a Mac or PC. All notes include geo-location information for mapping and search.

Name: SugarSync
Price: Free
Access to cloud-based files, photos and music from a device, paired with the ability to share those files with other users. For music-philes, a key feature is the ability to stream a music library from any computer.

Name: LogMeIn Ignition
Price: $29.99
The iPad version of this app boasts one-click remote access to your other computers. This app requires a LogMeIn account.

Name: Digits Calculator for iPad
Price: $0.99
This app aims to be a calculator on steroids: Features include the ability to hold calculations in place after you leave the app, scroll back through mistakes, keep running totals, flag important digits, and personalize background colors.

Name: GoodReader for iPad
Price: $0.99
An e-document reader, this app supports .doc, .txt, .ppt, .xls and PDF formats, with the ability to display iWork '08/'09, HTML and Safari Webarchives, and high-resolution images. The app fits the text for full-screen reading, with navigational controls for quick browsing.

Name: Pages
Price: $9.99
Still the most popular paid-productivity app for iPad, this modified word processor gives the user 16 predesigned templates for cards, fliers, etc. Documents can be imported from Pages '09 or Microsoft Word, and then exported to either of those two programs or PDF.

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iPad 3G rodando na TIM

Hoje cortei um chip de dados da TIM para colocar no meu iPad 3G.

Eis a prova do crime.

Material necessário: Um lápis para marcar o contorno, um estilete e uma lixa de unha (roubada da minha mulher).

Só.

Denis

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Windows Phone 7 e Office

http://www.gizmodo.com.br/conteudo/microsoft-office-no-windows-phone-7-parece-ser-fantastico

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A verdadeira história por trás da guerra Apple x Adobe (Flash)

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iPhone OS 4.0 com multitarefa

Enfim!

Da Wired:

Apple Unveils Next-Gen, Multitasking iPhone OS

• By Brian X. Chen
• April 8, 2010 |
• 10:03 am |

CUPERTINO, California — Apple unveiled details of its next-generation iPhone operating system Thursday in a press event at the company’s headquarters here.

The new operating system, iPhone OS 4, will be released to developers this week and to consumers this summer. It will give developers access to calendar, photo library, still image and video data, and includes features aimed at helping apps run faster.

As expected, the new OS will support multitasking of apps.

“We weren’t the first to this party but we’re going to be the best, just like cut and paste,” said Apple CEO Steve Jobs, alluding to the fact that cut-and-paste hadn’t been available until a year after the first iPhone launched. “It’s really easy to implement multitasking in a way that drains battery life. If you don’t do it just right your phone’s going to feel sluggish and your battery life is going to go way down. We’ve figured out how to implement multitasking of third-party apps and avoid those things.”

With the new OS, users will be able to press the home button twice to see a menu of all the currently active apps, which appears as a bar along the bottom of the screen. Tapping one of the apps takes you directly into that app. Apps can remain running in the background. Apple demonstrated how you can keep listening to music in Pandora while doing other things on the phone, and how the phone could deliver push notifications to alert users to an incoming Skype call.

“It was really simple to implement. Just a dozen lines of code,” said Skype’s head of product development David Ponsford.

To address privacy concerns, the OS will also let you know (via a notification on the app’s icon) when an app running in the background has requested your location from the device’s GPS.

The announcement comes less than a week after Apple’s launch of its tablet computer, the iPad. Jobs said the company had sold 450,000 iPads to date, and that users have downloaded more than 1 million iPad applications and over 650,000 digital books from the iBooks store.

Jobs also added that the company has sold more than 50 million iPhones and 35 million iPod Touches.

The iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad all run iPhone OS 3.0. The operating system is based on an OS X core, but with a touch-centric interface and optimizations aimed at increasing screen responsiveness and maximizing battery life. The current iPhone OS has been widely criticized for its lack of support for full multitasking: It only allows a few core apps, such as iPod and Mail, to run in the background while another app is active. The OS also restricts add-on software to apps available through Apple’s App Store.

The App Store currently contains 185,000 apps, Jobs said, adding than users have downloaded more than 4 billion apps from it to date. About 3,500 of those apps are optimized for the iPad.

The new OS also gives users the ability to group apps in folders, instead of just laying them out on the home screens.

Other features planned for iPhone OS 4 include a 5x digital zoom feature in the camera, and the ability to tap to focus in video. (Tap to focus was already available for still images in iPhone OS 3.)

See below for more photos from the event.

UPDATED 10:20am, 10:40am Pacific

Top photo: Apple CEO Steve Jobs demonstrates multitasking in iPhone OS 4. Photo by Brian X. Chen / Wired.com.