Up: Multitasking

Though I --the tendency to build up a tray full of rarely-used apps drives me insane, and background processing is limited to a few specific tasks--on the iPad it's an essential feature. I highly recommend switching from Safari to Atomic Web Browser, which now preserves all of your open tabs without the need to reload each page. It's like you never left the app, which is probably the point.

Down: Printing, or Lack Thereof

, Apple killed the breezy shared printer support that it once promised as part of this update, so you can't connect an offline printer to your Mac or PC and tell the iPad to print from the computer. Instead, only specific networked printers will work, including Hewlett-Packard's ePrint-enabled printers. Fortunately, you can still get .

Up: Better E-mail