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DIY Project: Build your own iPad Case

So Amazon is full of leather iPad cases that fail to impress, and you haven’t been able to find anything personal enough to call “yours.” But if you have some bamboo lying around (because everybody has that), an old coat you’re about to throw away, and some carpenter tools and supplies, you can roll your own.

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37signals Buys Ember iPhone App, Makes it Free

Ember is a great Campfire application Federico and I occasionally use when we’re mobile. Jason Fried must have thought it was so great, it was worth buying the app from Overcommitted, then making it available for free on the iTunes App Store.

You can download the Campfire app (renamed) at this link. If you have a Campfire client and you’re interested in the mobile app, you can read our original review of Ember here.

[via TechCrunch]


Annamika for iPad is a Trippy Pixel Bender

Just in time for Inception I suppose, Annamika gives us some insight into the darkest dreams your iPad can conjure. It’s a world full of mind melting pixels and trippy visuals, all seemingly taking place through the virtual lens of an innocent kaleidoscope.

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The Beauty of Apple’s Magic Trackpad

Surely this slate of aluminum is really pretty to look at. I don’t think anyone would deny that this gargantuan trackpad of love isn’t just so inviting to your fingers – looking at the gallery, I could dip my fingers right through the screen to touch it. But despite the invitation, is a giant touch surface like this actually practical? Without any hands-on experience yet with the Magic Trackpad, I will say yes.

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