Google Calendar is one of my favorite web applications. We can manage appointments, events, etc. but many of us may find it unsuitable for our needs. If you are one of the users who uses the Google Calendar, but are now looking for similar yet useful alternatives, it would be wise to check out the following calendar alternatives that provide you with similar features.
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6 Handy Google Calendar Alternatives
By | November 29, 2011 | 3 Comments
How to Schedule Reoccurring Monthly Appointments Once And For All
By | November 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment
There are a lot of reoccurring events on most people’s calendar. What is the best way to have these on your calendar? Should they be a full day appointment? Are they better off listed as a task? Instead, let Romulist take care of these events.
Think of all the clutter you will eliminate by inputting events such as the due dates of your bills, prescription refills or even monthly meetings.
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How to Integrate Google Calendar to Thunderbird
By | October 14, 2011 | 4 Comments
The latest version of Ubuntu has removed Evolution and replaced it with Thunderbird. For those who are first time using Thunderbird, you will discover that, unlike Evolution, Thunderbird doesn’t come with a Calendar/Task feature. You are not able to add any events/tasks, not to mention the integration of Google Calendar. However, the good thing about Thunderbird is that it supports add-ons and the great number of add-ons in its library makes it one of the best email client around. In this tutorial, let’s take a look at how you can set up Calendar in Thunderbird and integrate Google Calendar with it.
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How To Integrate Google Calendar Into Gnome Shell
By | October 4, 2011 | 16 Comments
The most distinct feature in Gnome Shell is the Time/Date applet at the top center of the screen. When clicked, it will popup a window and show you the calendar and all your events. However, if you mostly use Google Calendar to manage your events and tasks, you won’t have much use for this time/date applet. What you can do is to integrate your Google Calendar into Gnome Shell so all your events/appointments/tasks show up in the time/date applet.
Here’s how you do so:
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How to Export Facebook Events to Google Calendar
By | July 29, 2011 | 3 Comments
Facebook has become a really useful platform to organise parties and other events. Most, if not all, of your friends, family and acquaintances are on this social media platform, so organising an event simply involves filling in the relevant information and inviting people. Although Facebook is a great platform for creating parties and sending out invites, it is not my first choice as a “calendar” or “agenda” application. Personally, I prefer to use Google Calendar as it integrates well with my Android phone. Hence, I often accept invites to events on Facebook and then end up manually adding these events into Google Calendar. This process is tedious. If you are like me, here is an automated method to export your events from Facebook into Google Calendar.
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How to Get The Best Out Of Google Calendar
By | July 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Being productive can sometimes be as simple as getting organized. One way to get organized is to have all of your appointments in a calendar, be it paper or digital. For the sake of this article, I’ll talk about the digital version.
A common digital calendar is the Google Calendar. Many companies, ISPs, municipalities and the general public are using Google Calendar. I love it because of how it synced with my Blackberry and now is integrated with my Android phone. Your Google Calendar is a great place to start getting your life in order.
Here’s how you can get the best out of Google Calendar and start to become organized.
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How To Install Thunderbird 5 In Ubuntu
By | July 9, 2011 | 2 Comments
In case you are not aware, Thunderbird 5 is now released and is available for download. This latest release contains many bugs fixed and comes with extra features like new addons manager, tab dragging and reordering and enhanced account manager. For Ubuntu users, you can either download the tar file, unzip it and run the executable file or use a PPA and install it via the Ubuntu Software Center. The latter method is preferable as it allows you to receive regular update and is able to better integrate with the system.
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How To Set Up A Personalised Television Calendar
By | May 10, 2011 | 4 Comments
In the past, we have covered a number of methods of tracking and downloading television shows automatically and through the use of torrents and RSS feeds. Most of these methods either require downloading and installing cumbersome applications or are not portable and cannot be used on different devices. In fact, with tablets and smartphones becoming more ubiquitous, it is useful to have an app that you can use to view upcoming television shows with the least hassle. In this article I will outline how I track my favourite television shows, using a simple online TV calendar together with Google Calendar, which syncs with virtually any portable device as well as being available through any web browser.
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How to Manage Google Calendar From Command Line And Display It On Your Desktop
By | August 5, 2010 |
I don’t think I need to do any introduction on Google Calendar. It is one of the most popular web based calendar and if you have a Google account (or a Gmail account), you already have a Google Calendar account.
To add events/appointment to your Google Calendar, the most primitive way is to open your web browser, login to the Google Calendar site and add an event. What about the geekiest (and fastest) way? By the command line, of course.
Gcalcli is a Python application that allows you to access and manage your Google Calendar from a command line. You can use it to retrieve your agenda, event list, and quickly add new events. What’s more, it can also be used as a reminder service to help you remember the things that you need to do.
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Syncing Your iCal with Google Calendar
By | August 8, 2008 |
While Windows and Linux users can easily sync their desktop calendars to Google Calendar via GCal Daemon, there is no free and easy option to sync Mac Leopard iCal with Google Cal. All this is set to change as Calgoo, the online and desktop syncing application, become free.
Once configured, Calgoo Connect will sync your desktop and online calendar automatically in the background. Be it PC, Mac or any terminal in the cybercafe (and even your iPhone/iPod Touch), you will sure to have the updated version of your appointment schedule with you.
