Google Calendar 448
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!"
GooCal not very responsive right now :-| (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:GooCal not very responsive right now :-| (Score:2)
BTW, why didn't they call it Galendar?
Re:GooCal not very responsive right now :-| (Score:3, Informative)
At least there's no question about what it is when you call it Google Calendar though.
Re:GooCal not very responsive right now :-| (Score:3, Funny)
Google slashdotted?! (Score:3, Funny)
iCal compatible (Score:5, Interesting)
Hope it works in Safari soon. It doesn't even load unless I use Firefox.
Re:iCal compatible (Score:3, Funny)
News Flash (Score:4, Funny)
Submitter waited for this? (Score:2, Informative)
http://calendar.yahoo.com/ [yahoo.com]
There is really something "cheesy" with these Google fans... OK ending paranoia mode.
Re:Submitter waited for this? (Score:2)
Yahoo Calendar (IMHO) has been the only remotely decent web-based calendar. Until now.
I've been dying to close my Yahoo account since they rolled over for the justice department. It didn't surprise me when MSN handed over confidential information because they want to keep on the Justice departments good side but when I heard Yahoo complied with the clearly illegal request, I was very disappointed.
Re:Submitter waited for this? (Score:5, Interesting)
The yahoo interface doesn't even compete with google's.
First there are no hotkeys, and to add an event, you specificially have to click on the number/date (waste of time).
e.g. In the month view, do you like having to click the number 13 to add an event (mind you that a new page loads) or do you like clicking anywhere inside the box, and having an instant prompt, as in google's?
I could go on and on...
Now, I do agree that there has been a lot of 'fanboyisms' with google here on slashdot, but you really picked a bad example by bringing up yahoo calendar.
Re:Submitter waited for this? (Score:4, Interesting)
It features integration with Gmail. (Score:2)
Re:It features integration with Gmail. (Score:5, Informative)
And the same goes for sharing a calendar with other users.
'Full iCal support' (Score:5, Interesting)
Full 'read only' iCal support would seem a more apt description.
Re:'Full iCal support' (Score:5, Informative)
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.
Re:'Full iCal support' (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:'Full iCal support' (Score:3, Informative)
iCal Yes, Safari "No" (Score:2)
OK - it's actually Safari "sorta" - here's the notice you get:
"Sorry, Google Calendar does not support your browser yet, so things may break in unexpected ways. Press OK to see a list of browsers that we support. Or cancel to try to use it anyways." (sic)
Just to be on the safe side I'll wait until they fix it so it breaks in expected ways.
Quick report so far (Score:5, Interesting)
* 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...
Re:Quick report so far (Score:2)
Re:Quick report so far (Score:5, Informative)
> 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 [rancidbacon.com]
It's a cross referenced and pretty printed version of the Google Calender source code [google.com].
--Phil.
iCal ripoff (Score:2)
Re:iCal ripoff (Score:2)
Apple actually licenses the name iCal from Brown Bear Software [brownbearsw.com].
Re:iCal ripoff (Score:3, Interesting)
Wikipedia (Score:3, Funny)
It wouldnt be Google if.. (Score:3, Funny)
Annoyance (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Annoyance (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Annoyance (Score:2)
Re:Annoyance (Score:2, Informative)
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Faccounts%2FManageAccount [google.com]
Down the left hand side there is a "Delete Personalized Search" link that should sort it for you!
SLOOOOOOOOOW and buggy (Score:2)
HTTPS available (Score:5, Informative)
Re:HTTPS available (Score:3, Informative)
Re:HTTPS available (Score:4, Informative)
HTTPS issues (Score:5, Interesting)
Even Yahoo secure email with https by default.
Re:HTTPS issues (Score:2)
Re:HTTPS issues (Score:2)
Re:that's why (Score:4, Informative)
Google Calendar Reviewed in PC World... (Score:3, Interesting)
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 [google.com] so I'm sure it will be there soon.
Re:Google Calendar Reviewed in PC World... (Score:2)
Bam! Dead from the start. (Score:2)
Why don't they support Mozilla and Firefox yet? That should be their top-level priority, and MSIE second. Sigh.
Re:Bam! Dead from the start. (Score:2)
Security by Obscurity (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Security by Obscurity (Score:5, Insightful)
http://blabla.com?user=dummy&pass=dumbone [blabla.com]
and
http://blablab.com?hash=3ebf71dc0135c7927da8fc55a
So that's not the point. And don't say anything about POST, please, POST is not any more secure than GET, the only people it hides anything from are the dumber half of the AOL users.
Re:Security by Obscurity (Score:3, Interesting)
I agree, but it would have been trivial to do what Gmail does for _its_ ATOM feed - require HTTP authentication over SSL. Many RSS readers added decent HTTPS+auth support simply because Gmail required it. There's no reason why Calendar feed consuming software wouldn't have done the same.
Google Calendar's private feed will be an easy target for anyone with access to proxy logs (for example, anytime you us
Re:Security by Obscurity (Score:3, Informative)
Enter SSL. Now, not only are the above two things considerations, but add to it the fact that (unless I'm mistaken) anything POSTed is sent encrypted while anything encoded in the URL (eg, GET) is sent in
What calendar? (Score:2)
Guess they're probably still recovering from the Slashdot effect
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Tell me more about yourself (Score:4, Funny)
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.......
Am I the only one scared of this? (Score:3, Insightful)
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.
Re:Am I the only one scared of this? (Score:5, Insightful)
The alternative is that after you type in the terms, they return a page saying "Lalalalala we're not listening! We care about our users' privacy!" Instead, the choice of whether or not to make the information exchange is left to the individual.
Re:Am I the only one scared of this? (Score:2)
Oh, yeah, because the current holders of my credit history are really trustworthy. They don't sell my data, and they're so helpful when they screw something up!
On an actually related note, I logged in and tried it out, and I really, really like it. The interface is extremely easy to use and everything flows very well. I didn't have a problem with responsiveness when I tried, either. I especially love the quick add function. It handles multi-day events just fine (Vacation X through
Re:Am I the only one scared of this? (Score:3)
Planzo (Score:2, Informative)
Import does not work properly... (Score:5, Informative)
Anyone else have a similar problem?
Re:Import does not work properly... (Score:2, Interesting)
Firefox Extension (Score:2, Insightful)
Big Brother will know your schedule (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Big Brother will know your schedule (Score:5, Insightful)
It's a social calendar: You put some stuff up, make it viewable to your friends, then check their calendar to see when they get out of class so you can call them.
The internet isn't the place to be plotting your coup d'etat anyway.
Re:Big Brother will know your schedule (Score:2)
Well I dun wanna do that because Google says they do no evil. That's right, I'm gonna stand here grabbing my ankles waving my
True Colors (Score:3, Insightful)
"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.
Re:True Colors (Score:2)
Google wouldn't have to follow Chinese law if they weren't going into business with the Chinese government.
Google Calendar Hotkeys (Score:5, Informative)
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?)
Planzo Current Iteration (Score:2)
1) On 12/24 I made an event that stretches out over to 2am on Christmas morning. I then added an all day event for Xmas Day and the display overlayed on top of the 2 day event making the previous event unreadable.
2) I can enter descriptions for events, but clicking the event, clicking on the ti
They've almost caught up with Newton 1.0! (Score:2)
Of course the intermediate error message I got was worthy of the first chapter of Mostly Harmless:
TypeError - Undefined value - undefined['r','__4','ZTNmZjc5MXN1NGRtNWxwOGc3ajg3d WoybDQganBlbGxpbm9AZ21haWwuY29t'],['a','ZTNmZjc5MX N1NGRtNWxwOGc3ajg3dWoybDQganBlbGxpbm9AZ21haWwuY29t ','breakfast at tiffany\047s','20060420','20060421','anBlbGxpbm
Phone notifications: Where's verizon? (Score:2)
Or is this addressed in a FAQ and I was too lazy to go look for it?
Tag level sharing (Score:4, Interesting)
Just my 2 cents...
Neat! (Score:2)
I have recently been becoming more dependant on Yahoo! Calendar and, in so doing, it's limitations are becoming more glaring and more annoying. This forces me to consider changing to some other calendaring software/thngie, but I really don't want my calendar/thingie to be tied to just one comptuer (hence Yahoo!). Google cal is iCal compliant, or so they say, and I don't think Yahoo! Calendar is. Or, if it is, I somehow missed it. (which is possible)
Missing features wishlist (Score:5, Interesting)
* No to-do's. All events must have a start and end time.
Anyone else want to add a wish?
Re:Missing features wishlist (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Missing features wishlist (Score:3, Insightful)
OK, but Google needs to start doing better (Score:2, Interesting)
Schedule and calendar applications are a dime a dozen. Heck, anybody with at least a year of programming skills can write their own appointment manager, I have. It does everything I want it to do, without superfluous extras, and if I want it to do something more, I can write my own support for it.
If this is what we can expect from Google, time man
How does it compare to 30boxes? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:IE and Firefox only for now (Score:3, Funny)
Most non-native english speakers find this acceptable or just dont care.
Re:IE and Firefox only for now (Score:2, Funny)
Re:IE and Firefox only for now (Score:2)
Re:IE and Firefox only for now (Score:3, Interesting)
Scheduled to be in beta for the next four years (Score:3, Interesting)
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 use
Re:IE and Firefox only for now (Score:2)
The PRC must have a bigger proofreading budget.
Re:IE and Firefox only for now (Score:2)
Re:IE and Firefox only for now (Score:2, Funny)
Actually, (Score:2)
Re:Palm support (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Palm support (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Cool! (Score:2)
Oh please somebody hack this, then I will as happy as the day GLM [marklyon.org] came out.
Re:Cool! (Score:2)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/palm2ical/ [sourceforge.net]
Written in Java, I'll give it a go.
Re:The slashdot effect? (Score:2)
I wish we could fix "Nothing for you to see here. Please move along."
Re:Not quite "live" (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Not quite "live" (Score:3, Informative)
it already is BETA [google.com]. 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.
Re:Not quite "live" (Score:3, Informative)
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.
Re:Not quite "live" (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Not quite "live" (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Not quite "live" (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer
Re:iCal!?!? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:iCal!?!? (Score:4, Informative)
Well strictly speaking icalendar (rfc 2445) [ietf.org] 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.
Re:iCal!?!? (Score:5, Informative)
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
Re:Not Quite Slashdotted (Score:2)
Re:It's a good thing they beta tested it (Score:2)
Among Rich Hall's sniglets [wikipedia.org] is "Decembuary", which is defined as the time in January when you continue to write the number of last year on checks.
And from Treehouse of Horror VI [snpp.com]:
Marge: [voice over] It all started on the thirteenth hour, of the thirteenth day, of the thirteenth month. We were there to discuss the misprinted calendars the school had purchased.
Homer: [shivering, looking at the calendar] Oh, lousy Smarch weather.
[spies the thermostat with a note from Willy over it]
[reads] "Do not t
Re:Merging calendars (Score:2)
Re:The Waiting (Score:2)
Also, are you saying that there's no Google social network yet [orkut.com]? It's inhabited almost exclusively by Brazilians, and is spammy as hell, but it's definitely a Google social network. It's invite only, but I don't think it's in beta (they bought it). It should be though, what with such a devastating donut famine.