Wednesday, April 28, 2010

iPad: screen protector myth

So, I, like many, bought a screen protector for my precious iPad.... Now, what is a screen protector? Its basically a piece of plastic that acts as a shield for your screen, keeping the dust, finger prints and world off of your screen. That's the theory....

What have I noticed so far? If you have pets, children, a house, or are breathing air, then installing one of these things is impossible... You Need a negative pressure room, white hazmat suit and then you might have a hope in he'll in installing it without some hair or dust sneaking underneath... It's like installing your own window tint....

If however you are going to go ahead with it anyways then here's a tip... You don't need to buy three or four of them as some people have indicated. They stick to the screen using surface tension, they don't use any kind of glue, so while everything in the cosmos seems to stick to them like they were coved in glue, you can just run them under warm water to rid yourself of the debris and then try yet again (in vain) to get it to stick to your computer without having something slide in underneath...

Do you have any tips for getting one of these things on without crud underneath? If so let me know. There is nothing worse than staring at a bubble caused by a hair, under the middle of your otherwise perfect screen, and knowing with absolute certainty that if you take it off to scrape the hair off, you will have 4 hairs when it goes back down again...

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