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Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Google Calendar is ready for Prime Time!

So I'm very satisfied with Google Calendar and I'm using at the office. As you can see, I've got a few of my own calendars (actually, the yellow one is a friend's). I've also included another calendar to show relevant holidays.

I've also been able to link to the calendars in my e-mail client (Novell Evolution). It updates every 10 minutes or so using the iCal protocol. I don't think I can add events through the mail client though.

My favorite things about Google Calendar:
  1. Gmail and e-mail client integration
  2. Fast site
  3. Shared calendars
  4. iCal and XML (Open Standard) formats
  5. Shared login with Gmail
Some things that are missing:
  1. A "To Do" list
  2. A "Go To" button to navigate to dates
  3. An applet that will alert of events when Google Calendar is not open in the browser
  4. A Recurrence that allows me to specify dates like "First Monday in September"
  5. The Ability to add events in my Mail client
  6. Transfer of Alarms to my mail client (currently events show up without alarms)
So I'd recommend Google Calendar for anyone who uses their calendar in multiple places or for people who want to share/publish their calendar.

3 Comments:

At 3:35 PM, Blogger lisa b said...

hey dean, i stumbled on your blog, glad I did...i love google calendar...just signed up, hopefully it will help me remember appointments and the such...missed a lot of things in the last couple of months pregnancy stupids...what can you do...anyhow say hi to bren for me...

 
At 6:29 PM, Blogger Dean said...

Are you pregnant again? Did I know that? I'll have to ask Bren if i knew that :) Congrats!

 
At 8:08 PM, Blogger lisa b said...

i know bren knew that...get her to update her blog.... :)

 

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