But, the iPad has become the place where really creative people put forth their best efforts creating application programs for computers. Once again, Microsoft missed the boat. They didn't invent a store to sell cheap application programs and didn't think up a clever name for them, like "Apps!" So while the whole world is buying and selling sophisticated programs for between one dollar and five dollars, Microsoft is still out there trying to sell a word processing program for $120. Good luck on that.
So, the iPad is the place to be to use this stuff. The screen is still only nine inches, just like that 1984 Mac, but at least you can pick it up and hold it so you can see it. I caved. Santa brought us an iPad Saturday night.
I loaded up a few Apps. Angry Birds, of course! Netflix and the Kindle reader, then a nifty photographer's guide to where the sun will be on any day of the year at any place. Throw in a few restaurant guides and we were ready to hit the road! My Travel Blog is here.
But, why not also make sure the iPad operating system is current too? So I upgraded to the current version of iOS. I then clicked on one of my application programs (Okay, an "App") and nothing happened. Well, it briefly started to expand, then contracted back to icon size. What the heck?
The restaurant guide, the Kindle reader, LightTrac - nothing! But Safari, e-mail? Yeah, those work.
Searched the web. Found this marvelous website, where people have been complaining about this problem from April 15 through December 22 of 2011.
Lots of interesting solutions are mentioned but non quite as good as the one I found on another thread which was "Just download another free application from the App Store. This fixes it. Then remove the newly installed App."
Worked like a charm.
It was also educational to find that there are people who recommend a "hard reset" for the iPad just like the people who inhabit Windows forums and suggest, "wipe the disk and reinstall the operating system."
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