The iPad is perfect for use on the go. It’s lightweight, fits in your hands and packs some powerful software to work anywhere you please with a data or Wi-fi connection. That is, until you are tired of using your lap as a stand for it. Let’s face it, if you’re going to work hours on end on the iPad, you need a good and sturdy stand your iPad can sit on securely. And that’s what we did for you.

When selecting this list of iPad stands, we’d taken into account the angle the stand can provide, if it can work on both landscape and portrait orientations, the looks, the durability and how portable the stand is (there is no point to get a stand that can’t be taken where the iPad can go).

We’ve found the top 10 iPad Stands you can get for your iPad. The list is made up of suggestions that will give you optimum working comfort without sacrificing looks or stability. As usual, if you have additions you would like to suggest to our readers, sound off at the comments section.

Happy iPad-Stand hunting!

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Not so long time ago, when we create a box in a web page, let’s say with a div, we specify 100px for both the width and the height, followed by padding for 10px and borders of about 10px as well.

  div {  	width: 100px;  	height: 100px;  	padding: 10px;  	border: 10px solid #eaeaea;  }  

The browsers will expand the box’s size to 140px, where this amount 140px of the total width/height is made up of the addition of the padding and the borders as follows; 100px [width/height] + (2 x 10px [padding]) + (2 x 10px [border]).

However, sometimes this result is not what we expect it to be. Sometimes, we need the box to always be 100px regardless of the padding or the borders added.

To overcome such a recurrent problem when creating web page layout, we can use the CSS3 box-sizing property to control how the CSS box model should work in the browsers.

Using box-sizing

The box-sizing property has two value options, first the content-box; which is the default value, when using this value the box model will behave as we have described above.

And the second one is border-box, where the box’s size will be calculated by substracting the specified content’s size with the padding and the borders added.

  div {  	width: 100px;  	height: 100px;  	padding: 10px;  	border: 10px solid #eaeaea;  	box-sizing: border-box;  	-moz-box-sizing: border-box; /*Firefox 1-3*/  	-webkit-box-sizing: border-box; /* Safari */  }  

For instance, when we have a box like what we have described above (100px square with 10 pixels for the padding and the borders), the content’s size will decrease to 60px, and the total size of the box remains 100px, where the equation of the subtraction can be described as follows; 100px [width/height] – ((2 x 10px [padding]) + (2 x 10px [border])).

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Browser Support

The box-sizing property is supported in all browsers; Firefox 3.6+, Safari 3, Opera 8.5+ and Internet Explorer 8 and above.

So, if you know that most of your visitors will not be using Internet Explorer versions below 8, you can use this useful recommendation (thanks to Paul Irish).

  * {  	box-sizing: border-box;  	-moz-box-sizing: border-box; /*Firefox 1-3*/  	-webkit-box-sizing: border-box; /* Safari */  }  

The snippet above will apply the box-sizing property to all the elements on your web page.

Example

In this section, we will show you a real-life example on how we can make use of this box-sizing property. We will create a simple navigation, based on the HTML markup below, with five link menu in it.

  <ul>  	<li><a href="#">Menu 1</a></li>  	<li><a href="#">Menu 2</a></li>  	<li><a href="#">Menu 3</a></li>  	<li><a href="#">Menu 4</a></li>  	<li><a href="#">Menu 5</a></li>  </ul>  

Then, we will add some decorative styles; such as, set the navigation’s fix width for 500px and the link’s width for 100px each, then inline the list item, and give different backgrounds for each link menu, so you can see the difference between them.

  nav {  	width: 500px;  	margin: 50px auto 0;  	height: 50px;  }  nav ul {  	padding: 0;  	margin: 0;  }  nav li {  	float: left;  }  nav a {  	display: inline-block;  	width: 100px;  	height: 100%;  	background-color: #ccc;  	color: #555;  	text-decoration: none;  	font-family: Arial, sans-serif;  	font-size: 12pt;  	line-height: 300%;  	text-align: center;  }  nav a {  	display: inline-block;  	width: 100px;  	height: 100%;  	color: #555;  	text-decoration: none;  	font-family: Arial, sans-serif;  }  nav li:nth-child(1) a {  	background-color: #E9E9E9;  	border-left: 0;  }  nav li:nth-child(2) a {  	background-color: #E4E4E4;  }  nav li:nth-child(3) a {  	background-color: #DFDFDF;  }  nav li:nth-child(4) a {  	background-color: #D9D9D9;  }  nav li:nth-child(5) a {  	background-color: #D4D4D4;  	border-right: 0;  }  

At this point, our navigation just looks normal.

However, the problem will come when we add left or right borders to the link menu.

  nav a {  	border-left: 1px solid #aaa;  	border-right: 1px solid #f3f3f3;  }  

The menu will overflow to the bottom, as the link’s width is no longer 100px. It is now 102px, causing the navigation’s total width to be 10px longer then we have specified above (500px).

To overcome this issue, we need to apply the box-sizing property, as follows:

  nav a {  	border-left: 1px solid #aaa;  	border-right: 1px solid #f3f3f3;  	box-sizing: border-box;  	-moz-box-sizing: border-box;  	-webkit-box-sizing: border-box;  }  

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Further Reading

And finally, if you are the adventurous type, and want to dig deeper into this subject, we have put together a few selected references for you:

• Understanding the CSS Box Model – Tech Republic
• Box-sizing bug in Firefox – BugZilla
• Box-sizing FTW – Paul Irish

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(Mac only) Renaming multiple files on your Mac can be a tedious job especially when the system itself is quite limiting. Of course, creating a custom script on your Mac can help solve this but it is not for the average user. If you do not wish to rename each and every single file one by one, then NameChanger has the solution to deal with large number of files that require name changes.

NameChanger is a desktop application that simplifies the process of renaming multiple files at once. The process is easy and it even provides sequential renaming of files. You can also reorganize the file sequence by drag-and-drop, get real-time preview of every change and a whole lot more.

In this tutorial, we will guide you on how you can easily change the names of multiple files simultaneously and in sequence on your Mac.

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Get NameChanger

Before you proceed with this tutorial, you will need to install NameChanger on your Mac. Simply head over to the download page and proceed with installation (Mac will automatically install the application once the download is complete).

Add files to NameChanger

When installation is done, you are ready to rename multiple files at the same time via one of two ways:

A. Select files from NameChanger

Open the NameChanger application and click on the ‘Add’ button to select files.

B. Drag files to NameChanger

Alternatively, you can also add files by dragging selected files into NameChanger.

Renaming Files

The selected files will be placed under the ‘Original Filename’ column on the left of the application window. To the right is a column called ‘Renamed Filename’, where you will be able to review the new filename if you change it. The review is in real-time mode.

Note that the filename as shown above are numbered in sequence with the same prefix IMG_, so changes can be done easily, but it can get tricky if existing filenames have long and/or randomized numbers.

There are a number of styles to change your filenames with NameChanger and in this tutorial, we will focus on changing filenames in ‘Sequence’ mode.

1. Hide Extension (Optional)

Some files may be in .png or .jpg format, but to make it easier for you to read and rename the filename, you need to hide the extensions.

1. Click on ‘Options’ to open the options window.

2. Tick on ‘Hide Extensions’. Once ticked, you will see that the ‘Original Filenames’ are now listed without extensions.

   

2. Change mode to Sequence

The default mode to change filenames is ‘Replace First Occurrence With’ as selected at the dropdown menu in the application window. To change mode to ‘Sequence’, simply click on the dropdown menu and select ‘Sequence’.

When you have selected the mode to ‘Sequence’, a new option panel will pop up as follow.

3. Sequence Panel

At the Sequence panel, there are several items you can control. Let’s say our objective here is to rename the filenames from IMG_XXX to Perth_XX. For the benefit of our readers, we shall split these filenames into two parts: the prefix IMG_, and sequence XXX, so this tutorial can be more easily understood.

There’re only 4 items you need to touch on the Sequence panel:

1. Firstly at the ‘Sequence Name’, rename the files to Perth_. This will replace the prefix IMG_ all at once (although not before you complete the changes).

2. For ‘Number of Digits’, select ’02′ for two digits. The other options are 1, 003, 0004 and so on.

3. For the section ‘Starting at’, toggle the value to 1, so your image sequence will start from 01 instead of 00.

4. At the Location tab, toggle the selection to ‘Replace Entire Filename’, and this will replace the original name IMG_001 and replace it with Perth_01.

   

When the changes are done, you can preview the new filenames in your application window under the ‘Renamed Filename’ column.

The new filenames has now been changed to the prefix Perth_ with a two-digit sequence.

4. Rename files

When you are satisfied with the changes, click on the ‘Rename’ button to complete the name change.

5. Reorganize sequence (additional)

Should you want to reorganize the sequence of your files, simply click on ‘Image Browser’ at the top right corner of the application window.

A new pop-up window will appear with a preview of your image files. Drag any file to change its position, and NameChanger will automatically update the sequence number of the files following the sequence you have organized.

Conclusion

Renaming multiple files and reorganizing the positions of photographs are now made easy with the help of NameChanger, which makes a lot of difference, especially when you are dealing with hundreds of photo for your digital album. It not only works for photos; it can be used to rename any type of files.

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