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Mobile Google Calendar now support event editing from iPhone and Android

Google has released the new mobile web version of Google Calendar for iPhone and Android, that support event editing from that devices. To access and modify event on the Mobile Google Calender, from mobile web browser, go to google.com/calendar/gp, and select any event to modify it.

Another huge improvement introduced is, the calendar will still start and show the last viewed events even on unstable internet connection. For note, only iPhone OS 2.2.1 and above as well as all Android phones can enjoy the new feature of Google Calendar for mobile web.

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Admin 8 April 2009 mobile app and web , , , No Comments

Tweet to update Google Calendar with Twittercal

Sometime you want to update your Google calendar, but unable to do so because of  IT department in your office block any access to Google services, you’re in the slow internet connection or you’re on mobile phone that takes years to open Google Calendar.

I just figure out how Twittercal simplify all this thing for you. With 4 steps to setup your account, you’re ready to update your Google Calendar on the go. Remember, you’ll need to authenticate Twittercal and Twitter before using this service.

  1. Register for a free Twitter account
  2. Add gcal as your friend
    gcal is a bot that process and forward messages to your Google Calendar.
  3. Grant access to your Google Calendar account
  4. Now add any events by sending a direct message to gcal

So here the sample message you can use to update your calendar.

d gcal meeting with paul tomorrow at 7pm
d gcal meeting with fred on monday, 25th of june at 9am
d gcal working with Wan today,  at 9am


twitcall Tweet to update Google Calendar with Twittercal

And there you go the event now appear in your calendar. The event created with the default setup of Google Calendar.

tweetcal calendar Tweet to update Google Calendar with Twittercal

Admin 31 March 2009 internet tool , , , No Comments

Offline version of Google Calendar available for all

After Google Calender on Google Aps goes offline last month, finally the offline version of Google Calender is made available for all users.

What you need to do to bring your Google Calendar offline:

To enable offline Calendar access, sign in to Google Calendar and look for the “Offline Beta” link in the upper right-hand corner of your account, next to your username. We’ve released this early and are still ironing out some kinks, so if you encounter any issues, be sure to let us know. If you access Calendar through the Premier or Education Editions of Google Apps, your domain administrator will first have to elect to turn on new features from the Domain Settings page of the Google Apps control panel.

Admin 5 March 2009 internet tool , , , , , , 1 Comment

Google Sync bring Gmail Contacts and Google Calendar events to your phone

It doesn’t really matter if this is actually Microsoft technology (Microsoft Exchange) , that Google licensing it. In fact,  they should collaborating more, in joint-effort to made the internet a better place for everyone.

The real beauty here is how Google Sync, unveiled yesterday by Google, able to make our life easier. It works by synchronizing your Google Calendar and GMail Contact (for the time being) to iPhone and Windows Mobile phones.

Google Sync is a two-way service, which means you can make any changes on your phone or in your Google Account. At the end of the day, both will have similar data regardless where the changes made before.

The setup is pretty straight forward. Choose your devices and follow the instruction carefully. It took me less than 5 mins to get its working.

List of phones where this service is available.

Head to m.google.com/sync to give it try.. My experiment’s screen shot as below.

My Calendar – ‘Test Google Sync @ 4AM’
sync1 Google Sync bring Gmail Contacts and Google Calendar events to your phone

The ‘Test Google Sync @ 4AM’  now synchronized to my iPhone. Cool!!
sync2 Google Sync bring Gmail Contacts and Google Calendar events to your phone

Admin 10 February 2009 internet tool , , , , , 5 Comments

Yahoo Calendar Beta hands-on and the similarities and differences with Google Calendar

The new Yahoo Calendar Beta is quite impressive.  In term of features, it is almost on par with its older rival, Google Calendar except on the few aspects. I have Yahoo Calendar brief hands-on this evening while working on some old project.

I love comparison, and to start with, I choose Google Calendar. So first of all, I tried my best to find similarities between these 2 calendars on the cloud.

Both calendar has full-fledged calendar function, from creating simple events to recurring events. Event’s reminders can  sent via email or SMS pop out (Google Calendar only) and Yahoo Messenger (for Yahoo Only). Yahoo’s SMS events reminder however only applicable for US users, while Google accept almost all carriers all over the world.

Both support event’s drag and drop between hours, days, weeks or months. Yahoo is slightly ahead when it allows  adjusting the event period by resizing the event’s box size to be shorter or longer.

Apart from that, both calendars allows sharing the calender with public or people you wanted as well as prints the calendar directly within the application.

To differentiate between calendar type, both allows multiple calendar type, normally on the nature of that calendar such as for personal or business use. The different calendars are differentiate by color, the people who can shared with and etc.

Additionally, Google Calendar have an option to display holiday calendar which Yahoo Calendar lacking with.

The are couple of differences that I notice, and I believe there are more. This are difference that bound to the service provider.

Yahoo has Flickr integrated into Yahoo Calendar. If users happen to be Flickr user, enabling this feature will randomly fill up certain days with the photos from Flickr. Future release includes filling up the day event with the photos that you uploaded that day.

A quite huge different obviously, that Google Calendar can be viewed offline , feature that was introduced on Google Apps recently. With this feature, Google Calender is more appealing for frequent travelers who needs to get in touch with their hectic schedule.

yahoo calendar Yahoo Calendar Beta hands on and the similarities and differences with Google Calendar

Admin 8 February 2009 internet tool , , , , 2 Comments
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