As with your phone, you can type into your browser and it will pop right up. On your computer, there are a couple of ways to get to Google Calendar.
If you’re on your smartphone, there’s an app for both Android and iOS, or you can simply type into your phone’s browser. The good news is that you can get to your Google Calendar from any device.
Like Gmail, Google Calendar was built to be a browser-based app, which means there’s not a desktop client available. Is there a desktop app for Google Calendar? Using a separate desktop calendar client.There are three main ways you can get Google Calendar on your desktop: If you spend your workday on a desktop or laptop computer, you probably can easily see the benefits of being able to launch an app and see your upcoming events. But going to the website to check your calendar can take time. And to navigate back and forth between pages, you can use the ALT+Left arrow and ALT+Right arrow keyboard shortcuts.If you have a Google account, you automatically get free access to Google Calendar. If you try to re-size the window that is currently on the version of Gmail for iPad, you’ll notice that now you have scroll bars, and this can be a little bit annoying to get rid of them, just refresh the session by pressing F5 and the Gmail session will adapt to the size of the window.
Mozilla/5.0(iPad U CPU iPhone OS 3_2 like Mac OS X en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Mobile/7B314 Safari/531.21.10Īll this is possible because this version of Gmail is not an iPad app that you have to download and install, you are just telling Google mail service for what platform (system) you are requesting the service. If you want to try this trick in another browser, you need to change the browser’s user-agent to the following: What I am showing you today not only works just on Google Chrome, Gmail for iPad may also work in other web browsers.
The iPad version of Google+, Calendar and other Google products can be accessed using the computer web browser as well, even the iPad version of YouTube can be accessed, but videos may and may not work correctly.
Additionally Google Chrome can save your username and password (if you want), that way you don’t have to enter your credentials once again the next time - something that it will not happen if you are using Google Chrome in incognito mode. The cool thing about this is that you can open another regular Google Chrome window and surf the internet without being logged in to Gmail this method is also useful when you want to be logged in to multiple Gmail accounts without the need of creating manually additional profiles. Now just double-click the shortcut to launch Gmail in your Google Chrome with the iPad user-agent and that’s all there is to it. Click the Apply button and then the OK button to finish.
The Target field should look something like this, if you are in Windows 7, after you append the switch with the user-agent mentioned above:Ĭ:\Users\your-user-name\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe –app= –user-agent=”Mozilla/5.0(iPad U iPhone OS 3_2 en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 Mobile/7B314″ –user-data-dir=”%tmp%\gmipad”Ĥ.