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 Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 4:25 am Post subject: Google Calendar launched |
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You can now use Google CL2 Calendar!
| Quote: | Wouldn't it be great to be able to keep track of all the events in your life, coordinate schedules with friends and family, and find new things to do -- all with one online calendar? We thought so, too. Learn More
Seeing the big picture
With Google Calendar, you can see your friends' and family's schedules right next to your own; quickly add events mentioned in Gmail conversations or saved in other calendar applications; and add other interesting events that you find online.
Sharing events and calendars
You decide who can see your calendar and which details they can view. Planning an event? You can create invitations, send reminders and keep track of RSVPs right inside Google Calendar. Organizations can promote events, too.
Staying on schedule
You can set up automatic event reminders, including SMS notifications, and instantly bring up anything on your calendar with the built-in search tool.
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This has been awaited for a long time, and many people thought it would be a while before it was launched. However, it seems that Google have launched it out of the blue. 
It asks a few questions once you sign in for the first time, for example, your time zone.
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warzabidul
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| Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 4:50 am Post subject: |
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At the moment it's missing a lot of key features which are -
Possibility of uploading CSV files with events on them
Extracting dates from e-mails to add on the calendar
An easier way to add birthdays and holidays.
At the moment it feels far too simple to be of any interest to those who use calendars properly. |
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Dmitri
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| Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 7:18 am Post subject: |
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I can only say one thing... It's slow as hell!
All I see is "Failed to ..."
They should seriously tweak their servers.
EDIT: Well, it's faster now! The rant was about the first days of the release.
Using it!
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andrew247
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| Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 10:06 am Post subject: |
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| Dmitri wrote: | I can only say one thing... It's slow as hell!
All I see is "Failed to ..."
They should seriously tweak their servers. |
Yes, it can be. One of the times it went to 'redirecting' it didn't finish, and I had to clear my cache and log out of Google. Then it worked fine. At least we know one of the reasons why Google was reluctant to release it earlier. 
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| Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 11:19 am Post subject: |
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Maybe Google were influenced by those people.
But I doubt it.
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warzabidul
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| Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 12:15 pm Post subject: |
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Found that it also accepts mac calendar files so I've uploaded those to the servers. That's a good feature although it's not immediately apparent.
I take back what I said before, at least partially. |
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Joe7
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I am trying to load my Yahoo Calendar but is messes up format.
It is slower than Christmas... |
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| Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 4:40 pm Post subject: |
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I would imagine that it'll be slow for a while. I bet they underestimated (ala analytics) to load and bandwidth caused by the flood of visitors.
Give it a week or so, my mone is that it'll improve (reponse-wise) tremendously.
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| Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 5:34 pm Post subject: |
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Probably one of those deals where it depends on what server you happen to be on.
It went pretty quick for me; signed in with my Google account, and was up and running in a minute.
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| Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 8:18 pm Post subject: |
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for me i havent had any problem i love it its so fast havent receive any error 
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| Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 11:56 pm Post subject: |
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| It's going fast for me so I have no qualms with it |
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| Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 9:14 am Post subject: |
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I'm generally happy with it. Yahoo Calendar was the only thing stopping me from ignoring my yahoo account altogether and that's only because yahoo let's me have my alerts sent to my gmail account. But Google Calendar, especially with it allowing me to import my yahoo events, will likely lead me to cut my yahoo ties. Though google doesn't allow me to choose to be alerted twice for an event (e.g. 5 days and 1 day before). But it does let me schedule a repeating even every two weeks, which yahoo does not.
I'll test it for a while before I totally cross over. Somehow I've never been able to keep up with a conventional planner or calendar but yahoo calendar has made me so effortlessly organized. |
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| Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 11:37 am Post subject: GMail Calendar |
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Hi Guys,
I'd love to use the calendar function - but I don't appear to have it. Anyone care to enlighten me?
Thanks,
Adam.
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| Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 1:54 pm Post subject: Re: GMail Calendar |
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| Spiceskull wrote: | Hi Guys,
I'd love to use the calendar function - but I don't appear to have it. Anyone care to enlighten me?
Thanks,
Adam.
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Did you see the link in Andrew's post?
Just sign-up and sign in. (Or vice-versa.)
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