I’ve been an iPad owner for almost a year now. I love it. I feel like I’m holding some magical window to the future whenever I’m using it. One minute I can be reading a biography of Theodore Roosevelt and the next I can be watching a free video lecture about Roosevelt on YouTube. And of course, the iPad is great for surfing the net, checking email, and playing games.
For the first six months or so of owning and using my iPad, I didn’t use a protective case. One fateful day, my son Gus, then 9 months old, got his menacing little baby hands on my iPad when I wasn’t looking and chucked it onto the tile floor. My $600 iPad sustained a small crack on the screen near the corner. Luckily, the crack is over the black border surrounding the main iPad screen, so it doesn’t obstruct my viewing. But after dodging that bullet, I didn’t want to tempt fate again by leaving my iPad uncased with an iPad-destroying toddler on the loose in my apartment.
Unfortunately, most of the iPad cases out on the market are pretty boring-looking. I wanted a case that was both ruggedly handsome and functional. Enter the Saddleback Leather Company iPad Case.
If Indiana Jones used an iPad, he’d use this case to protect it. Made from 100% full-grain, boot leather, these iPad cases come with Saddleback’s 100 year guarantee. Your grandson can use this case to protect his iPad 10 from being damaged when he falls off his hover board.
The case is designed to absorb impacts from the roughest of use. Gus has thrown my Saddleback Leather-encased iPad onto our hardwood floors countless times and my iPad remains unscathed. And you can easily stand your iPad horizontally with this case for those times you’re watching Bridge Over the River Kwai while smoking your pipe.
And like all Saddleback Leather products, the iPad case just looks and feels awesome. Every time I’ve taken my iPad on a plane, I’ve gotten compliments on the Saddleback case from my seatmate.
If you have an iPad, I can’t personally recommend this case enough. If you have a dad who has an iPad, the Saddleback Leather iPad case makes for a great Father’s Day present. My family got my dad one last year and he loves it.
Saddleback Leather iPad Case Giveaway
The fine folks at Saddleback Leather Company are giving away one iPad case to one lucky AoM reader. Be the envy of iPad users everywhere with this ruggedly handsome case or, better yet, give it to dear old dad for Father’s Day. Value of the prize is $104.
To enter, simply leave a comment below sharing your favorite iPad app. That’s it.
Deadline to enter is Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 12:00 PM CST. We’ll then select one random comment as the winner.
Update: Contest is over. Winners will be announced here on Saturday, May 26, 2012.
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My favorite iPad app is Pocket, which I use all the time for reading articles I’ve saved when I’m offline.
I have been searching for a good iPad case for months and this one looks amazing.
Netflix
Netflix!
The Kindle app, for PDFs as well as e-books.
The Kindle app
My favorite app is the Wall Street Journal.
Evernote keeps me organized
Definitely Pandora. Great way to get a good variety of music in your day.
My favorite iPad app is the evernote app! I love to write and organize and I think it is the best for it!
I like the Men’s Health app.
Flipboard. It’s not only my favorite news reader, its the app that convinces family and friends to get their own iPad.
AofM, of course!
AofM
Netflix.
RPG Calc HD i play alot of table top games so this comes in handy alot
RPG Calc HD i play a lot of table top games so this comes in handy a lot
The Pandora app.
Instagram
MLB at bat
New York Times
It’s gotta be Siege Hero!
It’s gotta be Siege Hero
Favorite app is the Prognosis app; helps me with my career in continuing my education.
Realtor.com for real estate diamonds in the rough.
My favourite app is GoodReader! Perfect for making annotations or just reading.
My favorite app is called Planetary, it’s a real cool music player
Angry Birds!!!!
Favorite App is Lose it! Down 40 lbs and tracking.
My favorite app is Lose it! Down 40 lbs and tracking.
My favorite app is Loseit! Down 40 pounds
My favorite app is Lose it. I am down 40 pounds using this great tool.
Lose it
Notes plus is by far my favorite app
Pandora has got to be my favorite.
Great looking case.
Notability, Kindle, or YouVersion Bible
Favorite app is the Kindle app. It’s good for e-books, but great for PDFs.
I love me some Flipboard. The news I want from balanced perspectives all in one place
Netflix!!!
Been wanting one of these for awhile…
Intelligent Life
Foreflight for flying.
Pandora.
My favorite iPad app is Life. It’s what I get to play with my niece!
My favorite app is PBS
My favorite App is Netflix or the Kindle app. Both make commuting a breeze
Pandora
I’m a little biased as I love the app my friend has done work for and she’s a talented illustrator called Farfaria.
I use mine for work a lot. The case I have is pretty boring. This one looks sharp.
I love “drawn” and “naturespace”
I love naturespace, puts me to sleep every night
I use “naturespace” to put me to sleep every night
Focus Magazine application
My favorite iPad app is Scramble. This game is addictive, fun, and i think I might be improving my vocabulary.
SkyDrive app – enables me to view my documents on the go.
I know one manufacturer can make new styles of Ipad3&new Ipad,who need that,contact me by jikangtony@gmail.com
MLB at bat.
Netflix
No question, Flipboard.
Ski safari
Medscape
I’ll second FlipBoard, despite my almost sarcastic answer of Facebook :)
Flipboard, beautiful graphics, easy reading for both leisure and work related articles (e.g. Google Reader)!
NPR!
Personally, I would say my favorite iPad would be “Valet Mag”, although some 3 year old niece loves “Shaun the Sheep – Home Sheep Home”.
The Netflix app got me through my last deployment, but the Paper app is pretty cool too.
Paper is a great app.
Mormonchannel is a great app
My favorite is Tweetbot.
You version Bible, Look to it daily for guidance and wisdom
My favourite app is Evernote
Well my favorite iPad app is obviously the AOM app! But my second favorite app is “Car Minder”. It lets me create a profile for each of my vehicles and keep up with maintenance by miles or date. It helps track everything from windshield wiper blades to tires to timing belts. It also has a nice gas mileage calculator that tracks your mileage input in a spreadsheet and bar graph.
-Kole Pilot
My favorite app would be Netflix. I’ve taken to falling asleep while watching old episdes of Doctor Who at night.
My favorite iPad app is Alien Blue. It’s a Reddit reader. Other Art of Manliness readers may enjoy Reddits r/oldschool and r/wicked_edge.
My favorite app is Zite. Great way to stay up to date on interesting new ideas and news.
I’m big on the Indeed app.
Cut the rope! My kids love it :)
I’m a big fan of my bible app, the khan academy for school, and my Edmodo.com app to keep track of my students work wherever I am.
My favorite would be the ebay app. I really enjoy buying some cheap things from ebay the simplicity of the app makes item browsing that much easier.
Nice one
Gear Patrol! Guy toys and just cool stuff!
Dropbox, makes working on the road much easier
Dropbox
iTunes U. Take free courses from all over the world. Check out the Harvard course on Justice.
For it’s Puffin fir an alternative to Safari. Awesome with Flash websites.
My favorite iPad app is the Art of Manliness app! Say, when is that being released to the public, anyway? Uh-oh… should I not have told them all, yet? My bad!
Seriously, though, I love Flipboard. It takes the act of reading news on a digital device and give it a more classic flavor by streamlining it into a paper-esque format. Looks gorgeous, too!
My favorite Ipad app is Instapaper.
My favourite app is Reeder, on which I read this!
I love youtube on the iPad. I can keep up with my favorite channels while I do my morning routine. From coffee to shaving to getting dressed, the iPad is easy to take along.
Easily has to be Pandora. It’s always on no matter what else I’m messing with on my iPad.
Last in!
Last in for the win!
DropBox is my favorite.
Twitter is my favorite.
Pandora!
Instagram
Photoshop Touch
Favorite App? GPS Plus.
Definitely my bible app; no doubt about it.
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