If you’re like me, you spent way too much time trying to figure out why only your primary Google Calendar would get pushed to your fancy new iPad. It seems to be a bug with Google Sync, but one crafty user discovered a work-around:
On your desktop Mac enable the safari debug menu, set the user agent to iPhone, go to m.google.com/sync
While in preferences, turn off Javascript - this is what is preventing us from selecting multiple calendars!
In the years leading up to 1984, computers were large, messy, complicated devices that only true nerds could love — let alone use. Several members of Apple II line — for example — shipped with schematics of the circuit board, inviting people with the knowledge to play around with different configurations and settings. The Apple I didn’t even ship with a case, power supply, keyboard or display.
With the Macintosh in 1984 that changed. The product — the first Apple machine headed up by someone other than Steve Wozniak — was unlike the computers people were used to at the time. It was small, quiet and self-contained. Even today, it’s tricky to pull one of those things apart to reveal the components tucked away behind the smooth beige plastic.
At first I thought, this is not for me. I have the iPhone for mobility and a computer for my computer life. With the iPhone there are certain things it just doesn’t do well, mostly in browsing. It’s horrible to navigate a map on an iPhone because of the screen size.
Amazon today announced its Kindle App for iPad is now available in the App Store. The app lets users select from over 450,000 books from the Kindle Store on iPad and features Amazon Whispersync technology that saves and synchronizes customers’ last page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights across their Kindle, Kindle DX, iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, iPad, and more.
I have a feeling the iBookstore will crush it.
While surfing the web on your iPad, we expect many of you will want to check your Gmail. If you go to gmail.com in your browser, you’ll see something different than what you’re used to on the desktop. We’re releasing an experimental user interface for the iPad built on the Gmail for mobile HTML5 web app that we launched last year for the iPhone and Android devices. Those devices have large screens compared to other phones, and tablets like the iPad give us even more room to innovate. To take advantage of the iPad’s large display, we’ve created a two-pane view with your list of conversations on the left and messages to the right.
Speaking of iFixit, those crazy guys have analyzed the boards shown in the FCC’s listing of the device. While the final product may be different, this thing looks amazing inside.
Great take-apart guide by iFixit. My old Newton 2100 may be the best piece of Apple hardware I ever owned.
These are pulled from From Stephen’s Fry’s excellent piece for Time on the iPad and Steve Jobs.
Phil Schiller Senior Vice President Worldwide Product Marketing:
There’s a negative way of saying that, and a positive. ‘Oh, it’s just a big iPhone … boo!’ or ‘Hey, it’s like a big iPhone … cool!’ Luckily, millions of people have those, so there is an instant ease and familiarity when they first encounter the iPad. As for everything else, it’s not about the features — it’s about the experience. You just have to try it to see what I mean.
And my, they look nice.\* Looks like developers aren’t just making “HD” version of their smaller programs — this is a whole new class of apps.
*opens iTunes.
Be sure to check out their written review, as well.
Well, I’m here to tell you that in fact, we haven’t seen tablets before. And maybe the iPad is the only true tablet we’ll get in 2010. The hardware we’ve seen in years past, (and what we’re likely to see in these Android devices) are laptop computers with the keyboard section broken off. They’re not fundamentally touch-based computers, they’re the products of old thinking. When Apple looks at a fingertip, they see a warm, living thing that can feel. They don’t see a poor substitute for a mouse.
And the techies are right about another thing: the iPad is not a laptop. It’s not nearly as good for creating stuff. On the other hand, it’s infinitely more convenient for consuming it — books, music, video, photos, Web, e-mail and so on. For most people, manipulating these digital materials directly by touching them is a completely new experience — and a deeply satisfying one.
The bottom line is that the iPad has been designed and built by a bunch of perfectionists. If you like the concept, you’ll love the machine.