In my effort to keep up with technology I bought myself a tablet for Christmas and I am getting on fairly well with it; although there was just one thing that was getting to me.  The problem all rested with my touching technique.

I had the opposite problem when I first got my laptop.  I was always trying to move things by touching the screen and it took me some time to remember that I needed to use the mouse pad.  I would always wonder what I was doing wrong.

I was so sure that with this tablet and its touch screen, it would be so much easier to access web pages, but there is a knack to it that I am just not achieving!  I have been advised that I need to touch it with a light and quick action as if it were hot and, putting two fingers on the screen will confuse the computer and produce no result at all, but every effort made produced failure and after I tried three or four times without success I would find myself more than tempted to poke the screen in frustration.

My daughter kept telling me that “practice makes perfect” but I became so weary of the thing that I was tempted to stick with the lap top for fear of breaking the glass.  I used to think that my first computer was complicated but my failure to make the tablet react convinced me that learning to use the laptop was child’s-play in comparison.

But for those readers who are just switching to the smaller screen I am here to say that the only person who can teach you the knack is yourself.  My daughter was right; Practice does make perfect! I am getting the knack of it now.

WE, Dowhnam.