Clean the contacts with a q-tip and some alcohol?

I'm a bit frustrated with the lack of documentation for the standard Android application. I feel there must be a way, when creating an appointment, that I don't have to re-type information from my address book. But I don't even know where to find out the full feature set of the calendar and the contacts--I just find descriptions of some.

That having been said--those enhancements to Calendar that just came down the pike giving new UI elements for putting in times--LOVE. We may be pulling away from the round clock, but I find it much snappier to use for entry.

Still, dammit, I want to copy over my addresses, especially since Android is taking it upon themselves to tell me when to leave wherever I am to get there--it's more useful than before to be thorough.

::grumps off the the Android site again::

mini-rant ...

For a combination Christmas-birthday present a friend - a very good friend - gave me a $300 gift card for the Apple store. I got an iPad mini. I planned to use it to read e-books (hoping not to have to carry a paperback with me and run the risk of finishing a book before my travel ended) and play a few games. Maybe listen to a little music.

FAIL

The damn thing is unreliable - periodically the screen stops responding to taps. The third time I found myself facing a long commute home with nothing to do but stare out the window, I gave up on reading while on the bus. Then I found that, in the middle of a game, it would stop responding.

The "genius" at the Apple store said it's perfectly fine - nothing wrong with it.

So ... I've given up on it. It's turned off and stashed on a shelf with its box.

Damn Apple.

How long ago did you buy it and are you interested in selling it? I might know someone who might be interested.

Since it was a gift I feel obligated to keep it. Also - wouldn't want to pass on the piece of crap since it doesn't work.

Since it was a gift I feel obligated to keep it.

Wasn't the gift a gift card, not the iPad mini? If you had been able to return it to the Apple store and they would have offered a refund, would you have refused the refund because of your obligation? If not, I don't see how selling it would be any different.

I wouldn't feel right about returning it. And, as I said, I'm not going to pass the hunk of junk on to anyone.

That's really disappointing for you.

Yeah ... it' not like I set my expectations all that high ... and the wretched thing still managed not to meet them.

That's so weird -- you showed the Apple genius bar person how it was not responding, and he/she said that was normal?