I have a Samsung Galaxy tablet, and have no problems....other than operator and keyboard issues.....I hope you figure it out.

EasternOrthodox, I am replying on my new Samsung Galaxy tablet.

Wonder-Cafe on this tablet computer is pretty much the same as on my iMac desktop computer.

I think a wondercafe iPhone / iPad app would be great.

I find the iPad seriously addictive!

You can get a free Kindle app and order eBooks.

I've also got into Twitter. I'm a news junkie, so I follow more than tweet.

You can even take pictures with the iPad. But it is not designed for data entry so sorry about no spaces between paragraphs.

Test, this might create a skip line.

This is a line of text

Nope. But I got bold!

And italics

another attempt! Worked, but what a lot of work to type in the HTML. It is certainly an incentive to keep your messages short.

You're learning! This tablet has things I've needed to learn. it is a neat gadget. 

I have to type in the HTML, the angle bracket thingies, it is very time consuming, especially since the iPad is not designed for typing.

Still, one can always use an incentive to be brief!   I am typing this on the PC.

Plain text is the way God intended computers to operate. HTML is superfluious frippery, a haven for viruses and a hog of resources.

Paragraph spacing is simply using a double hard return.

lol......oh gosh, DKS...i was in microsoft technology summits for the last two days listening & learning.  gosh, i wish i had had your text then....would have added some humour to the event, along with the discussion on the unix guy who will only use cmd line to do work.

Microsoft is one of the greatest promoters of HTML evil. They define bloatware. And hot air.

While I have moved beyond cmd line, it does have a certain... elegance to it.

With plain text, no matter how many times you hit return, it doesn't work. Here

About ten returns.

The only thing that works is the HTML. To see the HTML, edit your post and click on "plain text".

lol, i really think for dks we should go back to smoke signals...or maybe telegraph.

I must admit, I have never heard of "bloatware" before. The iPad was determined to auto correct that word. Auto correct takes getting used to.

"Bloatware" is IT-speak for programs that accumulate functionality and therefore program code well beyond their original purpose or the reasonable needs of users. Microsoft is very bad for it and, indeed, Office is sometimes regarded as the poster-child for bloatware given how they've packed more and more functionalty into it while most users only use maybe 10% of what's there to start with. You can type a basic letter or even a novel with basic formatting (double spacing, page numbers, etc.) just as easily (perhaps more easily) in the old Wordperfect 4.2 for DOS as you can in Word 2010 and yet Word 2010 is a massive program compared to dear old WP4.2.

Mendalla

Mendella...

What is bloatware to some is functionality to others.

As part of a project team, things like version control, security, reviews, ease of use, integration with sharepoint --are  just a few of the features that save us hours of work.

You buy the software appropriate for your usage.  Just like there are many types of hammers, there are many types of software, including open software.

a home handiman doesn't need a professional one, however, if the price is right, then use it.

Office, supplies a ton of functionality for a very small price.

Pinga,

I agree that some of that "bloatware" is useful to some users. The problem that I have is that we are all paying for it whether we need it or not. I can't use Home & Student in my business because it lacks Outlook and yet buying Home and Business Edition is, to some extent, overkill for us. I'd like to see the return of Small Business Edition - basically a business-oriented package without the enterprise-level features. Open source won't cut it for my company on a number of levels though my son and I are starting to ditch Office in favour of LibreOffice at home.

Office 365 may ultimately solve the problem. I'm hoping that the cloud-based apps will allow MS to offer finer-grained pricing along with the ability to bundle in things like CRM and ERP with your other business apps.

Mendalla

Pinga,

I agree that some of that "bloatware" is useful to some users. The problem that I have is that we are all paying for it whether we need it or not. I can't use Home & Student in my business because it lacks Outlook and yet buying Home and Business Edition is, to some extent, overkill for us. I'd like to see the return of Small Business Edition - basically a business-oriented package without the enterprise-level features. Open source won't cut it for my company on a number of levels though my son and I are starting to ditch Office in favour of LibreOffice at home.

Office 365 may ultimately solve the problem. I'm hoping that the cloud-based apps will allow MS to offer finer-grained pricing along with the ability to bundle in things like CRM and ERP with your other business apps.

Mendalla

I'm with Pinga.  Many features of Office are very useful for specialized purposes.  Perhaps a stripped down version for general users would be the answer.

Anyway, I want to illustrate HTLM, and how hard it is to type in on the iPad (I am currently using a PC).

Here is my post:

Here is what I had to type in to get it 

Here is Northwind's post

Here is what the software created (and I would have to type in to get it):

I added the red box showing the "smiley".   There is a lot of programming required behind the scenes to create the GUI (graphical user interface) we enjoy so much.

I created those screen grabs using a tool called Snagit at work (definitely not free) that lets you create a jpg file from a chosen part of your screen (a box you can size).

Windows 7 has an included Snipping Tool that does the same thing and is completely free.

Why? Plain DOS text is completely acceptable for 90% of internet activity. It just doesn't look "cool".

I am typing on the me IPad and it looks normal to me. I wonder if you have your settings wrong. E