Tag: GCAL

Google Chrome. Google Calendar. They're two great tastes that now taste even better together, with the addition of Google Calendar desktop notifications for Chrome. Notifications are still in Labs, but you can turn them on right now to get Outlook-like alerts for your calendar events. Just make sure desktop notifications are on in your Chrome settings, and then enable the "Gentle Reminders" item ...

You may have caught my post about Dateline, a cool, minimal calendar that sits right on your desktop. Dateline's great, but it's Mac-only. Windows users don't have to feel left out anymore, though. Thin Calendar is a Dateline-inspired Windows app that does much the same thing, but gives you access to your Google Calendar appointments instead of the Mac-only iCal. Thin Calendar has a ...

BusyCal is a calendar app for OS X, and its developers would like you to think of it as "iCal Pro." It's designed for families and small groups, and includes a handful of syncing features that make collaborating on a calendar a lot easier. BusyCal syncs to Google Calendar, and it syncs to multiple machines over a Bonjour network, which is ideal for a multi-user home or an office. Design-wise, ...

Welcome to Googleholic, your bi-weekly fix of everything Google! In this edition: Upload PDFs to Google Docs Google I/O sessions now online Edit the Google Mobile page Easy way to export gCal ICS files Use Google Docs for Craigslist ads Google's agreement with Yahoo! ...

Google today released a piece of software that may just be the holy grail of calendar synchronization. Well, if you use Windows and Outlook, anyway. Google Calendar Sync is a utility that automatically synchronizes your Outlook and Google Calendar appointments. You can configure Google Calendar Sync for 2 way sync, meaning that any time you update either calendar, the changes will be copied to the ...

Remember Calgoo? It's that quirky windows calendar application that fully synchronizes with Google Calendar. We reviewed them here at Download Squad back when they released their "First Draft" version (they're avoiding the 'b' word like the plague), and we're pleased to report that it appears they took our comments to heart while working on this version. Calgoo Second Draft is a very nice ...

While you were busy learning how to sync your Google Calendars and Gmail with Outlook, the search giant cranked out some unique new Calendar features and fired up their translation engines. First on the list is the addition of 'web content events' - you can now easily add icons to the top of your calendars that display the weather, phases of the moon and when new Google Doodles land on their ...

Despite all the advantages of using a web-based calendar, some people still want to use Google Calendar as a stand-alone desktop app, and thanks to a pair of programs--one for Windows, one for Mac OS X--now they can. Gcal.Win and Gcal.app put Google Calendar in its own Window, free from distractions (and free of charge). Another potential solution for Windows users is to make Google Calendar your ...

Reader Mark wrote in to let us know that Google has released a Google Calendar widget for Google Personalized Home. It looks pretty standard, showing a calendar view on top and events for the selected day (and the following day if there's room) down below. It also features Quick Add and Create event buttons. [Thanks, Mark!] ...

In case you're of the opinion that finding a list of keyboard shortcuts for whatever Google web app you happen to be using right now, you should bookmark this master list of keyboard shortcuts, which has all the hotkeys for Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Reader, Google Video, Google Local, and even Writely all on one page. Handy! ...

It's probably only a matter of time before Google makes a mobile version of Google Calendar, but until then--or for those who prefer their phone's built-in calendar thankyouverymuch--there's GcalSync, a mobile Java app that will sync your mobile device's calendar with Google's. It's a free app that will work on my Java-enabled device and has a surprising number of features, including adding new ...

I'm glad Google didn't wait too long on this one. A week after the release of Google Calendar, they've released the API that will allow third-party developers to build tool for interacting with it. The Google Calendar Data API includes functions for fetching a calendar's feed, adding events, and requesting events based on date range. So far it's pretty basic, and I think we can expect it to be ...

You read that right. Google Calendar is finally—finally!—live. Somewhat surprisingly, it's dropped the "CL2" moniker it had during development, and very unsurprisingly the logo says BETA. Brad Hill over at the Unofficial Google Weblog has written up a nice review of Google Calendar in which he says "it rocks," it's "brain-dead simple to use," and "as ...