Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

I finally have a handwriting program on the iPad – WritePad from PhatWare. It works fine, but isn’t integrated into all the iPad apps.

Several months into the iPad and I finally have a handwriting program. I am using WritePad from PhatWare. It works just fine. I find that I can write by finger on the screen faster and more accurately than I can type using the virtual keyboard on the screen. So now I can write using the iPad and at least e-mail things to people and also to myself.

Shortcoming: I can only write on the screen using the WritePad application.

When I open Wikipedia on the iPad and I want to search for a topic, I have to use the virtual keyboard. I can’t write on the screen with WritePad. The same goes for all the other applications on the iPad. I can’t write on the screen; I have to use the virtual keyboard. Rats.

When will Apple integrate something like WritePad into all the applications on the iPad?