Apple's $29 , which debuted last year, makes it easy to transfer photos from an SD card or directly from your digital camera to the iPad; the kit works with both the original iPad and the iPad 2. There are also on the market, but we haven't tested them; if they worked with the original iPad, they should work fine with the new model.

Unfortunately, Apple's for particular iPod models doesn't work with either iPad generation.

The iPad's onscreen keyboard can only take you so far; sometimes you want a real, physical keyboard. With the debut of the original iPad, Apple introduced the , which combines Apple's standard aluminum keyboard with a weighted dock that holds your iPad upright while typing and provides ports for charging, syncing, and audio output. But the Keyboard Dock doesn't fit the iPad 2--the shape of the iPad 2 is just different enough that the tablet can't dock properly in the Keyboard Dock's cradle--and Apple hasn't announced a new version for the iPad 2. (The word on the street is that the Keyboard Dock didn't sell well. Which, if true, wouldn't surprise us--while it's a very nice keyboard, its dock cradle is too heavy and bulky for easy packing, and an iPad keyboard is, for many people, most desirable when you're on the road.)