You’ve pre-ordered your iPad, as well as you’re impatiently channel off a days on the calendar until Apr 3. What can we do in the meantime, detached from obsessively refreshing your Google poke to find articles like this asingle? What about alittle accessory shopping?

The iPad looks great, but it could also be improved with a couple of additions which will have it some-more utilitarian, more mostly. Don’t worry, you don’t wish you to outlay much. Most of these picks are free, and all of them will urge your iPad. Here’s a list of what I’ll be buying (or creation or downloading) for my iPad in the next few weeks.

THE Ziploc Bag

When Jeff Bezos reads his Kindle in the bath, he seals it inside a one-gallon Ziploc bag. If you’re going to be regulating your iPad in a bath, or the somewhat less hostile kitchen, you should do a same. We can see a shade, listento a (slightly muffled) song as well as inall relax. Amazingly, a multitouch will still work by the cosmetic. I attempted it with my iPod touch the moment ago as well as it was like a cosmetic wasn’t there.

Price: around 35 cents

E-Book Software

Now which you know that the iPad will support a roughly universal EPUB format, it’s time to prepare some books to bucket onto the device (as if you’ll be able to lay still sufficient to read the book for the initial few days of your brandnew fondle. Most public domain titles can be downloaded in EPUB-form, particularly from Plan Gutenberg, but what we need is the square of program to modify any as well as each content or PDF we can chuck during it.

Calibre and Verse have been both E-Book acclimatisation apps, and both work on OS X and Windows. Verse partners our the one preferred iPhone e-reader of the same name, as well as does the good as well as elementary job of conversions.

Calibre is a lot some-more powerful, and along with doing complex documents the lot improved, it additionally stores your e-books in an iTunes-style livingroom (although this will be moot when iTunes stores them for we. It will also download daily newspapers, giveaway, along with many websites and any RSS feed we select to add.

Price: Free

Calibre [Calibre]

Stanza [Lexcycle]

THE Stylus

I have been ridiculing the bad Pogo Stylus for iPhone for the couple years now: Who wants a stylus on a phone designed not to need asingle? But with the iPad, a little hollow tube with the foamy metallic tip looks a lot some-more useful.

Combine a little pen with the big-screen iPad and some sketch or portrayal program as well as you have an amazing sketchbook. Most of us pull easier with a coop than with fingers (unless we have been still in kindergarten), and a good-size shade, combined with an remove duty, may even make a combo improved than pencil as well as paper. A only downside is a miss of vigour sensitivity.

Price: $15

Pogo Stylus 10 Asingle Design]

THE Case

This one competence seem viewable, but WE suspect many people are planning to buy the Wi-Fi iPad as well as leave it on the coffee-table or nightstand (or down a back of a couch). Don’t! This device begs to be thrown in a bag and taken with we, wherever we go. We can read, write, draw, paint, watch cinema as well as all which things, all when we have a couple of mins to spare. If you’re worried about scratching your precious iBaby, you’ll miss out.

Don’t, however, buy the laptop-style tote, or anything which zips close. We wish easy, fast entrance or you’ll never take it out. At a really least, cruise a slipcover. Better is the notepad or book-style cover, something which can be flipped open in the second, and preferably asingle that can dual as a mount. Worried which it doesn’t offer protection from dust and spills? That’s what the Ziploc bag is for.

Price: Variable. Giveaway if we makeuseof an old padded shipping envelope.

Which Little iPad Camera Connection Dingus

If you have the camera and an iPad, we should buy a iPad Camera Connection Kit. Consisting of both an SD card-reader and the USB tie cable, a kit lets you bucket your photos onto the iPad but the computer middleman. Why would we care?

Think about what many of us do with our cameras. You take the lot of pictures of the day out, a family entertainment or some alternative amicable eventuality. Then you all throng around the behind to demeanour at the little three-inch screen. Now think about a alternative: THE 10-inch shade, pinch-to-zoom, the far-reaching observation point of view, slideshows with transitions as well as song, and an instant, in-the-field behind up.

A iPad additionally supports TENDER photos. That’s right. If you prefer to shoot your cinema rightaway as well as ask your editing questions later, you’re not released from a iPad. Apple: “iPad supports standard print formats, togetherwith JPEG as well as RAW.” This alone will make each pro photographer reading this article go out as well as sequence asingle rightaway (here’s a pre-order page if we want it). WE expect that there will shortly be the lot of RAW photo-editing applications in a App Store, too, though for rightaway, a capability to quickly view as well as revise cinema upon a slim, unstable device with a long battery life whilst sharpened will be value the money upon the own.

Cost: TBA

iPad Camera Tie Pack [Apple]

That’s my list. What about yours? Do you have a the one preferred Bluetooth setofkeys, an awesome thought for a homemade stand or alittle weird use-case that nobody else has suspicion of? Hit us up in the comments.