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“This is the perfect case for the MacBook owner looking for something different from all of the others. The BookBook Hardback Leather Case is made exclusively for the MacBook and is available in Classic Black or Vibrant Red. If you’re looking to disguise your prized laptop or just need a protective case, this is perfect for you – retailing from $79-$99! Whether sitting on a coffee table, dorm room or desk, BookBook looks like a vintage piece of literature, not an expensive laptop.

We love this case!”

Read more: “A Novel Way To Cover MacBook” | CocoPerez.com

The whole Twelve South team got the new iPhone 4 yesterday. Like many others, we noticed that if your hands or fingers touch the antennas on the iPhone, it reduces signal strength and reception. Being the innovative team that we are, we found a solution right in front of us.

We took our SurfacePad for Mac leather cover and cut 2 strips out of the very top strip of the SurfacePad. We then trimmed 2 strips to 125mm and 80mm and attached them to the sides of the iPhone.

First off – it looked awesome. The colors from the SurfacePads added a nice splash of color to the iPhone (like the plastic Apple Bumpers – but in leather). The different colors also let us tell our iPhones apart from each other.

Here’s the real shocker – our homebrew SurfacePad bumpers actually improved signal strength on the iPhone! No kidding. Something about not touching the side antennas with your hands increased reception by at least two bars! We quickly cut out colored ‘bumpers’ for everyone in the office and they just work great!

We just wanted to share this awesome hack to all of our Mac friends. This might be just the trick that let’s you use your new iPhone to its fullest potential.

http://www.twelvesouth.com/products/surfacepad_colors/

http://www.twelvesouth.com/products/surfacepad/

Could this vintage hardback leather case transform your MacBook into the next “it” fashion accessory for Spring? Japanese model Emi Suzuki suggests so in her latest blog. She rocks the Classic Black BookBook with her previous generation MacBook in Black. BookBook hits retail stores in Japan within days. Get yours in Japan at great stores like Kitcut and Rakuten among others.

Read Emi’s blog here: http://star-studio.jp/emisuzuki.littlebit/

Learn more about BookBook here.

Update: More BookBook info for Japan: http://www.focal.co.jp/product/twelvesouth/bookbook/index.html

From day one we’ve included cable management with the BackPack. It consists of 22 inches of coated cable tie to be cut to your desired length. It then can be threaded through the holes in the BackPack to neatly secure the extra cables underneath. Only thing is, this little extra feature usually flies right over everyone’s head. That’s why we like this review so much – they ‘noticed’ the cable management feature! Yay. See it at minute 2:40.

Watch the full review here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI_t0tkRs4g

To get your own BackPack – WITH cable management - visit here.