Galaxy Tab: The Missing Manual

Google Calendar on the Web

The web-based version of Google Calendar lets you set many of the options for your calendar that you can’t set on the Galaxy Tab. So in your computer’s browser, head over to www.google.com/calendar to set those options. When you visit www.google.com/calendar in your Tab’s browser, you arrive at the normal web-based version of Google Calendar, just as if you were visiting it on a computer. If you have problems using the calendar, tap the link under “Mobile version” and you come to a version specifically designed for smartphones and tablets. You can create new events, but you don’t have as many options as you have on your computer. The mobile version is somewhat stripped down.

What Happened to Google Tasks?

If you’re already a Google Calendar or Gmail user, you may have come across Google Tasks, a very simple and useful way to keep track of all your to-dos. When you use Google Calendar on the Web, your task list appears at the right side of the screen. But the Tasks feature is nowhere to be found on either the Galaxy Tab calendar, or on the Google Calendar version designed to be viewed on the Web with your Tab browser.

Ah, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get to it on the Tab. You can. It’s just that Google has put it somewhere you didn’t expect. Go to http://gmail.com/tasks. You find Google Tasks there, in all its glory.