Direct from the Pencil

After a few experiments with text entry on an iPad, I discovered a quicker way to type apostrophes and quotation marks on its standard keyboard. Convinced this was a useful trick not widely known, I made a presentation about it at the local Apple users group (back when it was still meeting.) In the time since then, though, I have found myself not typing very much on my iPad any more, even with an upgrade to the keyboard offering more access to the punctuation.

By no means have I got away from using an iPad nowadays, however. In fact, around the new year I was getting to think that I'd had my iPad Air for "long enough" and could stand considering getting a new one. At first, it was just a matter of knowing they now have fingerprint sensors built in; tapping in the same four-digit unlock code over and over could start to get to me. I decided to pay attention to the next announcement of an iPad update.
( Sooner than I'd expected )