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rickyb writes "After months of rumors and speculation, Google Calendar is now live. It features integration with Gmail, full iCal support, and a bunch of other goodies I'm just starting to discover. The wait is over!"
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Google calendar uses your gmail contact list to auto suggest email addresses when inviting other users to an event.
And the same goes for sharing a calendar with other users.
iCal is a calendaring file standard. Apple just chose to use the same name for their Calendar product (the obsession with "i*"). Gmail is compliant with the iCal standard, which happens to allow Apple's product (which is standard compliant) to interoperate.
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The iCal calendar format (.ics) has been the de facto open calendaring standard for a few years now. The Mozilla Calendar Project (aka "Lightning") supports it as well.
.ics calendars out there to Google Calendar, such as sports schedules for the local teams.
This isn't really a "Google cooperating with Apple" thing as much as it is a "Google using the most popular open calendaring format in the world today, for which there are already thousands of publically-accessible calendars, because it is in Google's own best interests".
Still, it's a great example of the good that comes from open standards. I love the fact that I can add all the existing
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for all of you behind a firewall. Be warned though, https://www.google.com/calendar/render sometimes redirects to http://www.google.com/calendar/render when your session has timed-out. Is there a FF extension that could rewrite urls and force https://www.google.com/calender to be used? Cheers, Palad1 ps: this thing does seem to grok webdav, I'll check tonight with iCal
iCal doesn't support two-way syncing by itself (i.e. without iSync). You can either publish a calendar to the web or subscribe to a calendar from the web. Unless you have two records for every calendar for which you want two-way sync, I haven't found an elegant solution that lets you both modify a calendar on your local computer and on the web.
Yahoo! Calendar offered IntelliSync six years ago to synchronize my PalmPilot with their on-line calendar, but that software ended up duplicating every event on my PalmPilot.
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So turn it off--just like you turned it on. Click Search History, then click Pause. While you're there, delete your history. Ta dah.
> The main thing that I still miss is the ability to sync with a PDA,
> but I'm sure that will be hacked into the app. at some point.
If someone wants to make a start on the hacking this might be helpful:
Rough Google Calender Class and Function Reference
It's a cross referenced and pretty printed version of the Google Calender source code.
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iCal is a calendaring file standard.
Well strictly speaking icalendar (rfc 2445) is the standard, but (as with vcalendar) it's a bit of a mouthful. iCal (to me) is Apple's software, but ical is the standard.
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Anyone else have a similar problem?
Some Google Calendar hot keys:
a - Agenda view
c - Create event
d - Day view
j and k - forward and back on days/weeks/months
n and p - next and previous, same as j/k
m - month view
q - quick create event, can add date and time and info and it will be added accordingly. I particularly like how it doesn't force the calendar view to focus on the new event. (e.g. april 14 breakfast at tiffanys 03:00)
s - calendar settings
x - 'next four days' view
/ and ? - both highlight the search input field, but add a / or ? to the beginning
(on a side note, is there a hotkey for firefox that automatically highlights the input field on a viewed page?)
I've been using Mozilla's calendar in various formats for awhile, and it doesn't really 'sync'. It downloads a new copy before uploading your changes. Works alright for single user systems, but definitely doesn't scale. That's where the work on CalDav and such should help.
How do I export my Google Calendar data?
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http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer
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https://mail.google.com/mail remains https even after login (should work anywhere except in the UK, but maybe even there).
If you select "weekly", checkboxes for the days of the week come up so you can customize.
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