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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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I logged on this morning and created a new calendar, made a few screenshots here. Looks nice, didn't see much in the way of gmail integration but maybe I wasn't looking hard enough.
"$121 billion market cap and they have someone writing error messages who thinks "anyways" is acceptable English."
Most non-native english speakers find this acceptable or just dont care.
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WTF? Is that possible? Did a traveling salesman just try to cross the road to change a lightbulb?!
Nice, you can subscribe to your calendar in iCal, and it imports iCal files. Doesn't seem to have a limit on the number of calendars you can have at once, but I may just be overlooking something.
Hope it works in Safari soon. It doesn't even load unless I use Firefox.
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http://calendar.yahoo.com/
There is really something "cheesy" with these Google fans... OK ending paranoia mode.
Heck, most native English speakers find it acceptable.
To me, full iCal support would typically mean the ability to publish to google calendar directly from my iCal compatible program, not export each calendar entry and import them.
Full 'read only' iCal support would seem a more apt description.
The Palm support (I'm using Mark/Space's Missing Sync) is what I was wondering as well. Hopefully it wouldn't screw with custom fields and/or categories.
I have been nosing around in it for a few hours now. 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. Furthermore:
* The user interface is pleasant, at least far more pleasant than any other web-based calendar I worked with before.
* The abilty to search for and import iCal calendars is very nice.
* You can manage multiple calendars from you account
* Sharing calendars with other users seems to work nicely
All in all, a decent start...
Let's see how fast the Wikipedia article will grow now that it has been released...
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.
If it were Google Calendar and not Google Calendar Beta.
I wish there was a way (maybe there is but I can't find it) to specify which Google applications you want to be automatically logged into. In my case I never want to be logged into the feature that remembers my searches, I find that feature disturbing. However if I log into Calendar or Gmail or Personal Homepage it starts remembering all my searches again until I log out and then I have to log in again when I use gmail or whatever. So I just don't use any of the features right now because it's too irritating.
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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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I'd say it's the nerds who think it is important.
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
I know I'm being picky, but why does the Gmail link in the calendar page goto the http Gmail site and not the Https version? In fact Google Talk does that too.
Even Yahoo secure email with https by default.
Yes, but, once they get all of the kinks out, they can use the application to manage the formal launch event.
So they got that goin' for them. Thanks. I'm here all week.
Meanwhile, I like the completely understated interface.
It will also be fun to dig into the APIs. My biggest complaint against Palm Desktop is that integrating it with other stuff is too challenging. My biggest complaint with Outlook, besides its momma, is that its internals are a zoo.
With Google, one hopes for more opportunity for user add-ons.
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Google Calendar has been pretty slow for me this morning, and not all options are always saving correctly, but I guess it will take them a few more days to iron out the bugs and get used to the user load. Seriously neat is the ability to quickly add an entry by typing 'dinner with Chris next Thursday 5pm'.
I don't see any Gmail integration yet, like the ability to identify mails that mention appointments and ask you if you'd like them put into the calendar. But it's mentioned on the features page so I'm sure it will be there soon.
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Anybody else likes Googles "private" calendar link feature? It's a link with a hash part, which enables someone access to the calendar without any username or password. Google says, that "you should not give away" that link. But that concept at all is complete crazyness!
Hi! I'm from Google!
We'd like some more personal information about yourself
and your associates and your company and your business transactions
and your...........
Just enter everything for us here and here and.....
Remember: We fight evil.........
They're right you know.......
They already know about everything I search for. If I let them, they would also know about every usenet article I read, and have all my email too, but I'm not willing to give them that. And now, I can add to the list of things I could let them know about me who I have appointments to see, and when. Sure, why not? Perhaps next we'll be seeing Google Bank, Google Dating Service, Google Medical Records, Google Credit History, Google TV, Google Phone Company? All services supplied for free, just let them own everything there is to know about you.
http://www.planzo.com/ works well enough for me.
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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How come they own that name when the ical program which a lot of us have presumably used is something like 15 years old (and predates the web) ??
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Anyone else have a similar problem?
Someones need to create the Firefox extension to show when I have events now just like the GMail notifier.
Someone has to bring this up. Do you really want the Justice Department getting court orders from Google to hand over everyones calendars so they can go on another fishing trip? Or, just think of the data mining potential for Advertisers. They are probably really wetting their chops on this one. Use a DavMod calendar on a descrete server. Other wise you are just asking for trouble.
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"And we salute the government, key leaders in the industry and all of you who have made the rise of the Internet in China such a tremendous accomplishment."
No more google for me.
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 certainly agree with your sentiment; but for what it's worth, "anyways" is dialectic English, common in Canada at least. I used to have to make a conscious effort not to say it. Heck, I know people from my neck of the woods who say "anywheres" too!
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Ugh, no kidding. Opera isn't at ALL supported. It'll let you in, but then you get javascript errors all over the place. Weak.
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Umm.. yahoo calendars already support synching with a palm.
The one thing that I really, really like about 30boxes is that you can set tags on events and specify permission to people at the tag level. If Google implemented this feature, I'd seriously consider switching to it. Interface-wise, I think they have 30boxes beat (at least, day view, month view,etc)
Just my 2 cents...
First thing I missed, which will make it impossible to import existing calendars:
* No to-do's. All events must have a start and end time.
Anyone else want to add a wish?
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it already is BETA. i played with it earlier today, before it hit slash, and it worked fine. it's just swamped by all the hits, but either than that it is a pretty nifty app.
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Settings, Calendars, Other Calendars, Add Calendar, Holiday Calendars. Choose your preference. Maybe there's a shortcut to get there. But the feature is there. I'm using it.
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Even with all the features working it will not function for my needs. They really need to work on repeating events, for example as a college student I have a class that meets the same time on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Currently there is no way to input this event, besides putting it in three times.
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"We look at the rise of China, the investment and the smart people and we are in awe of what has occurred here," Schmidt said.
"And we salute the government, key leaders in the industry and all of you who have made the rise of the Internet in China such a tremendous accomplishment."
Well said for the fork tongued Stanfordite. Exclusionist (Stanford Arrogance) and a sellout(China)!
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Irrelevant and only asking to get someone to G*dw*n a thread.
Get over it - it's a global economy and that means different rules in different places.
Thankfully France (the only country to resist the siren song of Asian slave labor) knows what problems happen (and react properly) with such sellout economies and has the balls to stand up to China. Google seems to be a hypocrite again in the same subject- fighting France and those who would normally take the tack of anti-globalization (when working with countries similar to economic models such as France would be the "norm" if by policy) as much as they help towards the execution squads in China.
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How do I export my Google Calendar data?
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It would seem to me that most non-native English speakers (being one myself, and probably thinking that everybody is like me) are actually more irritated by this than native speakers - because we learn it the right way.
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One entry found for anyways.
Main Entry: anyways
Pronunciation: -"wAz
Function: adverb
1 a archaic : ANYWISE b dialect : to any degree at all
2 chiefly dialect : ANYHOW, ANYWAY
...all cock-blockery aside...
I gotta say, though, for my and my partner's needs, it may be just about perfect. We can each have a seperate calendar under one login so that we can immediatly see what we have scheduled, but more importantly I can add/edit client events for him and he can add/edit them for me. No other basic or free calendar has met these needs for us, so this may be exactly what we've been looking for.
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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If Google came out with a drop in mail / calendar / storage / search appliance, I could see small to medium businesses dropping their exchange servers and all the licensing and support headaches they include. Either that or I'm optimistic and a little crazy.
I would really likee integrating GTalk Status and G Calendar for e.g. If I m in a meeting or sleeping or biking etc.. I could be able to just pull-in that to G Talk status message - shouldnt be that hard technically speaking and can lead to more 'integration' of currently 'defragmented' array of Google services.
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