There are a lot of pretty sharp people on this group. Thanks to all of you for your responses. The bottom line seems to be that my ipad2 isn't up to the rapid switching and editing between multiple documents and spread sheets that I can do with my laptop.
Too bad because not only is it smaller, lighter and runs way longer on its battery that my laptop, it also doesn't have to be taken out of my carry-on when going through the security check at the airport.
Phillip
--- In iPad@yahoogroups.com, "Carlee Marrer-Tising" <c-marrer-tising@...> wrote:
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> Thanks, April.
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> From: April Duritza
> Date: 13.11.2011 17:58:59
> To: iPad@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [iPad] Multi-tasking
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> 2011/11/13 Carlee Marrer-Tising <c-marrer-tising@...>
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> What I *meant* to say was that when you get the icons to jiggle on the
> bottom row of the recently opened apps and then tap the minus sign, the
> icon is *removed* from that list of recently used icons. I am sorry I
> used the word "delete" in this instance. Yes, the icon is removed from the
> list, not deleted, and you could also say you have closed the app. (I was
> taught early on in my training with computers to be very careful in the
> words I used. My teacher was a real stickler, and of course now I'm
> grateful to her. At the time I thought she was being a real nit-picker, and
> sometimes she drove me nuts! LOL)
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> Since we are trying to nail this down with precision, I wanted to point out
> that removing an icon from the strip at the bottom is not necessarily the
> same as closing the app. This is because most of the items on that strip
> are not actively running. The multitasking strip is, as David mentioned,
> actually a list of recently used apps - not just currently active apps.
> There are a few apps that do background work, but this is rare, and usually
> involves GPS, in my experience. If you want to be sure that those apps are
> completely shut down (thereby not running down your battery), you can remove
> them from the multitasking bar. In that case, I would say that "closing the
> app" is the right term.
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> More commonly, you will find that the apps at the bottom are not currently
> running, but have saved themselves in the state they were in when you last
> switched out of them. When you switch back to one of these, it will refer
> to that saved info and pick right back up where you left off, on the same
> document or screen you were in previously. If there is a bug with the app
> at that location, it might cause the app to continue to crash when you try
> to switch to it, because it is reloading the same buggy location. Removing
> such an app from the multitasking strip at the bottom of the screen will
> cause the app to reset itself to its original state. In that case, it might
> be more accurate to say that you are resetting the app, since the app isn't
> actually actively running.
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> Even I will admit, however, that I am dangerously close to both picking nits
> and splitting hairs at this point! I only pointed this out because I
> believe that some people will mistakenly think that they need to routinely
> remove all the apps from the bar at the bottom when they are finished with
> them. In most cases that is not necessary - the app isn't running, and the
> strip is just keeping a list of everything you have used recently. If you
> are worried about battery use, I do recommend shutting down GPS type
> programs when you are done, just in case. (Many GPS apps make sure that
> they don't keep the GPS open when they aren't active unless necessary, but
> it is a reasonable precaution.)
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