If there's a way to resize photos, or to change print settings from the iThing, before AirPrinting, I haven't found it.

No "select all" in mail? :(

I usually have my iPad orientation locked in landscape. However, sometimes, and only sometimes, when I go to unlock, it is obediently in landscape at "home", but all apps/mail/etc. are locked in portrait mode. I have not been able to detect a pattern of when it does this. Solar flares? I am running iOS 6 on an iPad 2.

Dear phone, when I input a To: address, you should remember which account I last used, & automatically select that as the From: account. This should override my "default account" setting. Things I miss about bb.

I wish Maprika were a person so I could hug and kiss it.

Please let me type in dates/times instead of having to play Wheel of Fortune.

Work forced us onto iPhone. I will say the resolution on this thing makes my ipad look like original Super Mario Bros. However, why can't I:

- Phone: paste a phone number into keypad
- Messages: Call / FaceTime / view Contact (Call, at minimum) from the bottom of the thread, not the top
- Messages: "mark as unread" (ideally on an individual-message basis, but to be able to do it for even the entire conversation would be better than the current nothing)
- autocorrect: manipulate the dictionary, ideally on a word-by-word basis (apparently "borking", "bothing", "neithrr" and "coprorate" are such real words that they cannot be dislodged even by repeated dictionary resets)
- Calendar: delete an appointment with, at most, two touches
- Phone: set to make all calls anonymous/blocked (instead of having to *67 as though it's 1990)
- Calendar: make appts private on an individual-appt basis

These last two especially are the kind of enterprise-unfriendly nonsense that keeps this device from taking over corporations, IMO.

adding: JavaScript just craps out for no reason, a lot.

Keeping this list here to periodically research for tips/apps/improvements.

iPad has so drastically negatively influenced my general productivity that I think I am going to have to lock it up.

I like Read It Later a lot.

You know what'd be awesome? iPad's screen pixels having biomechanical security on them that makes the screen viewable only by the owner (retinal scan?). I can perceive the eyeballs of nearby people on this screen as plainly as if said eyeballs were pointing red laser beams at it. YES, IM TALKING ABOUT YOU, AND YOU, AND YOU....

All right, you:

I'm impressed by the strength and quality of the screen (not display, which you already know is too splendid to require discussion) - much better than I expected. Thank you for letting me use iPhone apps on here; wasn't expecting that either. Although it's rarely needed I do shiver with delight at your nearly instant-on. I just discovered the undo button which, awesome sauce, thanks. Also, motionx drive: r u kidding? (not strictly just about you I know, but still.) You've also transformed travel for me.

Few things I wanna ask you though:
- when I search for apps and choose a result on the second or subsequent page, then ask to go back, please don't jump me all the way back to page one again. (I do appreciate that you remember my sort order though. Speaking of which, I'd love to be able do nesting-sorting, eg, first by customer rating then by price.)
- when I open a new tab, please don't make me have to touch the URL bar like eight times before you let me type in there as opposed to the search bar to which you default.
- please provide free, seamless VPN integration with my work Office suite etc., including on-board support for our internal doc mgmt system. (I recognize almost none of this is in your purview, but it can't hurt to ask; someday soon it may be - who knows.)
- when I can't or don't want to keep manually adjusting volume to compensate, can you maybe not play my songs at volume levels varying from inaudible-burble to headsplitting? Sound Check seems no use. I will try fixing entire library in iTunes but if that doesn't work we'll have to talk about this again.
- in the iTunes store, would you mind letting me sort search or album-listing results by column? Would be such a help.

xoxo*, me

* txalot Gossip Girl for ruining this beloved expression for me.

Which reminds me: txalot stupidhead Richard Wright for ruining calling people/greeting them as "Gorgeous", which I used to have the pleasure of doing with sincerity, gusto and frequency and having it believed and appreciated. I can't now without sounding like an insincere sleazeball.

iPad and/or iTunes have mind(s) of own: they delete playlists that are on one or the other at random, sometimes (but not always) refuse to sync in one or the other direction, capriciously and persistently delete 3 particular songs from only 2 of the playlists I've put them on (these 3 happen to be among my current favorites....coincidence? I think not. I suspect malice aforethought).  I know I totally sound like this (prolly not entirely SFW.... the computer is not very nice).

The hydrangeas in Mad Sq Park are SHOUTING and waving their pom poms. It's hard to look away.

Hang of GarageBand being gotten, grudgingly. Shopping list: a pickup, replacement midi cable for keyboard, and I am guessing someone somewhere would be happy to trade me money for more tracks and more instruments. I NEED HORNS

Extremely obvious superior feature that I only just realized: does not require a lap; can be held at any crazy angle and manipulated blackberry-style, as I am doing right now. I hadn't identified this fact as such (thought it was just aesthetics mostly) but I think this is the #1 reason I do indeed to my surprise take it places I wouldn't my netbook, viz., everywhere, especially thanks to my beloved yummy Tags.

I just noticed that when you double-tap to zoom, it somehow knows to zoom it exactly enough to fill the screen width-wise with the main text. I've tried to trick it with various websites that have different-sized columns etc and it is resolutely untrickable. How does it know??? Spooky.

I have google voice, gv connect and talkatone installed, and just had a phone convo using talkatone, and I think they might all be awesome, but not sure I get what's happening. I tried testing by calling my gv # and then everything I own rang, INCLUDING THE VERY PHONE I WAS USING TO MAKE THE CALL, and I answered one of the other phones and talked to myself, but everything else kept ringing, and I am very confused, feel like the all John Malkoviches scene.

TRIUMPH!!!!

Just accidentally figured out how to scroll within a text box that's already got contents "below the fold"! I am irrationally-greatly pleased.

Rescuing music that was on my recently-deceased hard drive, via the cloud. You've got to be kidding me.

How to lose all self-respect in 3 minutes flat

Despite my firm contrary intentions upon entering, and even being intellectually girded to resist thanks to this week's learnings ABOUT THIS VERY FREAKING COMPANY, I just got upsold by 100% and, most likely, my privacy violated au magasin de la pomme, all (or at least mostly) because of the outstanding customer service. I am their target sucker.

ETA It does just work. Plug n play - my dog could have set it up in his sleep...and drop dead gorgeous as always. Gosh darn.

iPad thing I want to hug of the day: iChromy

Maybe I'm just punchy from reading about 500 pages in the last 48 hours, but these cracked me up:

about Facebook Connect: "...information on a user's activities on the third-party website could be sent back to Facebook for his or her friends to see. For example, if a user reviewed a local restaurant on Citysearch, that site would ask the user if he or she wanted to publish the review back to their Facebook profile. Publishing such a profile [sic] on Facebook would alert that user's friends, who would presumably feel compelled to come to Citysearch to read the review..."

about newspapers in the 17th century: "Newspapers typically did not have a local focus; French papers covered British royal scandals, for example, while English papers covered French military mistakes."

iPad learning of the day: accuracy increases inversely to typing speed. I only just figured out that there's more of a delay on here than on a physical keyboard. Rather than typing as though I'm a 911 dispatcher and then gritting my teeth at miscorrections/dropped letters and doubling back, I am thinking happy peaceful thoughts and envisioning that I am typing while drowsing off on a drifting boat on a lake, and it's going much better.