Apple iPad Help

It’s one of the great ironies in modern technology: progress keeps rushing us towards smaller and thinner, lighter and more flexible, but every step in that direction makes our gizmos more fragile. Think about your friends with smartphones. How many live with a cracked or shattered screen because they can’t afford to replace it? How many laptops have defects because they’ve slipped off a desk or someone’s put too much weight on it when closed?
The Apple iPad is a beautiful example of this conundrum. The latest iPad 2 is an amazing feat of engineering, so thin and light that it’s almost unbelievable that it can be so powerful with that footprint.
But drop it even two feet from a table onto a tile or concrete floor and you’ll be heading to the Apple Store for a replacement, grumbling all the way.
Apple makes an iPad case but its Smart Cover is more about protecting the glass surface than protecting the entire device from any sort of fall, which is a problem. As much as I want to tote around my iPad without any protective cover at all, it’s a risky business.

Just bought a new Apple iPad 2 and want to prep your old iPad 1 for resale? You might be lucky and sell it to a relative (or be really nice and give it to them, for that matter), in which case it isn’t a crisis if some of your information remains on the device, but if you’re tapping into Craigslist or eBay, you’ll want to know exactly how to reformat the iPad back to its out-of-the-box state for the new user.