Google calendar receives an iPhone makeover
Google has released their iPhone makeover for Google Calendar. It's pretty nice. Simply point your iPhone to calendar.google.com and sign in. You'll see each of your color-coded calendars displayed in a iPhone-friendly layout. Touch any day to view its details, and move from day to day with the navigation buttons at the bottom of the page. I did notice one problem. The "Quick Add" field is at the bottom of the page, and when I touched it to enter some text, the iPhone's keyboard rose to cover it, so I couldn't see what I was typing until I had hit "Done." I'm sure this will get fixed before long, but until then, brush up on your iPhone keyboarding skills.
[Via David Chartier. Hm, that name's familiar...]
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Google has released their iPhone makeover for Google Calendar. It's pretty nice. Simply point your iPhone to calendar.google.com and sign...
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How does this work? Does it redirect from calendar.google.com to another URL? If so, can someone with an iPhone post the redirect URL so us iPod touch users can just access it directly?
September 25 2007 at 12:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply@Mark Ross:
Actually, the iPhone and the iPod Touch run slightly different versions of Mobile Safari. You can read more here:
http://the.taoofmac.com/space/iPhone/Safari
At any rate, many iPhone-optimized sites check to see what browser is reading their content. If the browser type & version match the current iPhone browser type & version, then the site serves up its special iPhone-optimized format. If the browser type & version don't match the current iPhone browser type & version, then the site serves up its normal format. Thus far, a bunch of sites that offer iPhone-optimized formats of their content have not updated their code to detect the iPod touch version of Mobile Safari and then act accordingly...
This can be a little redundant, since you can just subscribe to your Google calendar on iCal, and then sync it to your phone, which is what I do; I love it. (Just got an iPhone and am in geeky glory.) This way I get my cal each time I sync, instead of having to load it up on the net.
September 24 2007 at 10:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyDoesn't work for Google Apps customers.
September 24 2007 at 7:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThat should read:
http://www.google.com/calendar/a/yourdomainname/m
Pesky filtering.
Ben
http://www.samuraipanda.com
Also works with Google Apps for Your Domain at:
http://www.google.com/calendar/a//m
Ben
Um, just wondering... How, exactly, can this "not work" on the iPod touch? Don't both the iPhone and the touch use the same version of Safari? What happens when you try to use it? Not trying to me a smart***, just genuinely curious... Can you not use Gmail on the Touch either?
September 24 2007 at 5:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThe 'owner' of that Google calendar bothered to schedule Jake and Abby's snack time. (And reminded themselves which school the kids attend.)
September 24 2007 at 5:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyLogged in, ther is no "quick add" button and it's buggy. Probably they're fixing it.
September 24 2007 at 5:20 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThis doesn't work on the Touch.
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