Gmail on the iPad
With the release of the iPad, a lot of popular websites like Google are making iPad-based versions of their most popular web applications.
My favorite Google service Gmail, has received a major makeover for their iPad-based site.
This is how it looks:
I must say that it looks damn good. I know for a fact that a lot of people are turned off by Gmail’s design on the desktop, I would like Google to do something like this for the main version of their amazing e-mail service.
For those who don’t have an iPad yet, there is a way to try this out on your PC or Mac. An add-on for Firefox called the User Agent Switcher that allows you to change your browser’s user agent to show as the iPads’ user agent.
How to do this:
Click on Tools -> Default User Agent -> Edit User Agents -> New -> New User Agent
and in the User Agent field copy and paste this:
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/531.21.10
Name it iPad, so you can easily refer to it later. Now change your user agent to iPad and visit the Gmail site.
Enjoy!
