It's really quite simple, just plug the female end of the dockXtender into your Apple iPad keyboard (the connector on the iPad keyboard flexes forward to allow the housing to fit), and plug the male end of the dockXtender into the bottom of your iPad and you're done. You can move the iPad around, change it's orientation, and even set it back at a little distance.

And the best thing, you don't have to take off the iPad case to use it with the keyboard. Pulling it out of that Apple case is a sticky proposition due to the tight case (other's I've seen aren't quite so tight).

And away you go, typing madly while using your iPad setting sideways in landscape or horizontal orientation.

In the photo we are also charging the iPad with the provided 10-amp charge plugged into the back of the keyboard, while using the keyboard attached to the iPad setting on it's side. How's that for total awesomeness.

We ran it through all of our tests, which include newer docking speaker systems, older docking speaker systems (before requiring charge conversion), and car systems.

After verifying compatibility we worked for awhile enjoying music from the iPad on a Bose SoundDock (Series II) while using the iPad to check email, surf the web, etc.

So, if you're wanting to use your iPad with a speaker, home stereo, car system, or other docking station that was built for the iPhone or iPod, but the iPad just doesn't fit, these cables will make the connection.

CableJive drove this forward for many reasons, but none quite as vocalized as people's frustration with finally getting an awesome, durable Otterbox case only to find they were helpless to dock.

The dockXtender is a stylish, flexible, full pass-through cable with carefully engineered wiring to best connect your iPad, iPhone, or iPod with it's accessory without having to remove it's case, cover, sleeve, or skin.

And when we say case, cover, sleeve, or skin, we mean anything on this planet. We've carefully reviewed the gamut of coverings and made sure the housings are minimal.

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We'd been hunting for a better full-featured cart system for some time, had even downloaded a few and done some development work in an attempt to get something working. After months of looking, talking, thinking, coding, and trying different options we found a home run. Well, pretty darn close.

We settled on Interspire Shopping Cart. We didn't choose it because it's built by marketers (that wasn't high on our list), or because it was the cheapest. We chose it because it came out of the box with more things the way we envisioned a cart should be than any other cart, by a long shot.

At the top of our list was the customer experience. It's amazing how many carts miss even the most basic things. For example, our cart needed to have a simple, single-page checkout that didn't require creating an account. Customers simply don't need the headache of having to create yet another account to buy a cable for their iPod. We also wanted built-in real-time shipping cost calculations, and wide range of payment options.

We also had a bunch of business process and workflow requirements from our in-house fulfillment operation. Again, Interspire Shopping Cart was closer to on this than any other cart system we tried. The management interface gives you a whole slew of controls, including a pretty awesome order fulfillment interface.

Like I said, we'd been on and off looking for a new cart for about 10 months, but nothing was really jumping out as a sensible solution.

On October 19th we came across Interspire. After having reviewed so many cart systems we'd become pretty good at working through a demo and noting how it would/wouldn't work for us. It was clear after watching a few of the videos that we'd stumbled into something good. For a few days we played with the demo account, working through a bunch of business process scenarios and noting things things that would need tweaked.

We heavily scrutinized the cart's reseller/wholesale functionality, which is fairly simple. It didn't seem like out of the box we could use it to drive the kind of business we were doing with resellers, but after much back and forth and analysis of how we could use Interspire we decided with some modifications we could get it working good enough.

So we took the leap and purchased a license.

We made a few good pushes over a 3 week period to get the site designed, configured, data migration scripts written, the shopping cart templates set up right for us, the order fulfillment pages customized to enable our high-volume shipping, SSL certificates, etc, etc, etc.

And then in the wee hours of Monday, November 16th, four weeks from the day we first saw Interspire, we ran one last data migration script and went live.

One week into it I can say the transition went pretty smooth.

I hope those of you who are here as customers like things like tracking your order and being able to choose from a variety of carriers to deliver your package.

We had many "wow" moments during the trial, during our short conversion, and still are having them as we really get to understand the system.

We're excited about the newest product from CableJive, iStubz.

If the craze of a tangled-cable desk has you down, these short iPod/iPhone sync cables are a breath of fresh air. The standard 30-pin dock connector to USB cable comes in black and white and in ultra-stubby and moderately stubby lengths.

Made to fit any iPod or iPhone, with or without case, and to connect to any Mac, Windows PC, or other USB-compatible accessory.