Parachute Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Encased iPad survives 1300 foot drop, because why not?

by Mike Schramm (Nov 14th, 2011)

The folks at G-Form make athletic pads and rugged iPad cases, but they must really hate Apple's tablet over there. Not only did they drop a bowling ball on it and drop it out of a plane at 500 feet, but now they've doubled that distance, throwing a couple of encased iPads from a parachute at a ...

Dare to be Creative announces Parachute backup utility for Mac OS X

by Steven Sande (Nov 25th, 2009)

If there's one thing you've probably learned over the years from reading TUAW, it's that backups are important. Many of the bloggers here are obsessive about backups, doing Time Machine backups, SuperDuper! bootable backups, and using services like BackBlaze for offsite backups -- and that's all for ...