Filed under: Internet Tools, iPhone
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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Christopher Finke said 4:14PM on 9-24-2007
Must still be a little buggy. I've got six calendars, but I only get a mostly-blank screen with non-functioning "Create Event" and "Quick Add" links.
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difelicem said 4:15PM on 9-24-2007
Just scroll the web page up so you can see the Field.
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wei said 4:22PM on 9-24-2007
hm.. doesn't work with the ipod touch yet
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John Walsh said 4:22PM on 9-24-2007
Does this work on the iPod Touch via Wi-Fi?
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Seth Rubenstein said 4:31PM on 9-24-2007
Tried to access this on my iPod Touch, doesn't work. Very bad Google, come on Meebo fixed it, so can you.
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Steve said 4:38PM on 9-24-2007
I've found a fairly minor bug.
When clicking on a calendar that I only have free/busy rights to (I can't see event details, just free/busy), a "Sorry, Calendar is unavailable right now" error message shows up.
Doesn't really bother me, just thought I'd mention it for someone somewhere to read!
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joel.zimmer said 5:17PM on 9-24-2007
This doesn't work on the Touch.
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Luna Lovegood said 5:31PM on 9-24-2007
The 'owner' of that Google calendar bothered to schedule Jake and Abby's snack time. (And reminded themselves which school the kids attend.)
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Mark Ross said 5:38PM on 9-24-2007
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?
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tuaw_com said 6:31PM on 9-24-2007
Also works with Google Apps for Your Domain at:
http://www.google.com/calendar/a//m
Ben
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tuaw_com said 6:33PM on 9-24-2007
That should read:
http://www.google.com/calendar/a/yourdomainname/m
Pesky filtering.
Ben
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Alex Payne said 7:34PM on 9-24-2007
Doesn't work for Google Apps customers.
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Melissa Anelli said 10:25PM on 9-24-2007
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.
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PK said 1:04AM on 9-25-2007
@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...
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Chris Patterson said 12:25PM on 9-25-2007
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?
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hallohallohola said 5:40AM on 9-26-2007
Logged in, ther is no "quick add" button and it's buggy. Probably they're fixing it.
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