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You Can Hide Night Hours in Google Calendar Now

Google Calendar has debuted a very interesting option, the type of thing that seems so obvious only after someone else thinks of it. There is now the option of hiding unusual hours from the calendar, for example during late night or early morning. It's in Google Calendar Labs, which means you won't find it ...

28 November 2011
18:31 GMT

Google Calendar Automatically Checks for Free Spots in Guests' Schedules for New Events

Google is making easier to schedule a meeting that all guests can attend, by listing the time and date when they're all free. When you create a new event and add several guests, you can click on "Suggested times" to see your options."The resulting list will include upcoming times where all participants are avail...

4 November 2011
06:50 GMT

Google Calendar Gets a New Color Palette to Go with the Brand New Design

Along with adopting the new Google design, Google Calendar has updated the set of colors available to label different events and calendars. That may not seem like much of a new feature, but the visual cues are very important in a calendar app.UI ergonomics are probably more important in a calendar app than in others ...

22 October 2011
09:18 GMT

Google Calendar Adds Limited Offline Support

As expected, Google Calendar has gotten an offline option, which has now been enabled for most people. Google announced earlier that Calendar, along with Docs and Gmail, will get some offline mode support.Out of the three services, Calendar is probably the most usable in offline mode. That said, it's also the si...

1 September 2011
12:21 GMT

Offline Gmail Web App Now Available for Chrome

Google has finally re-enabled offline access for Gmail as well as Docs and Calendar. It's been working on the functionality for more than a year and it said more than three months ago that the features were just about ready and coming 'this summer.' It waited until the very last day of summer to rol...

1 September 2011
07:11 GMT

Switch to the Google+ Look in Google Calendar

Google has started the biggest redesign in its history, most if not all of its products will get a new coat of paint, following several universal design elements. The search engine is almost ready, many people are seeing the new version, Maps has the new design already and some of the Google Apps are starting to ...

1 July 2011
07:41 GMT

Google Calendar Adds Convenient 'Appointment Slots'

Google Calendar just got an interesting new feature, appointment slots. Like the name suggests, it enables users to set aside a time frame for others to make appointments. For those with a busy schedule that need to make the best use of their little free time, it's a great feature, and it also works great if you...

7 June 2011
05:11 GMT

You Can Now Change the Default Event Length in Google Calendar

Google is introducing a couple of new features and improvements for Google Calendar, which further improve the product, especially for power users. One change that may seem insignificant, but can make a big difference for those with a lot of meetings. Another change will affect those printing out their calendars, the...

2 June 2011
11:11 GMT

Custom Color Codes for Google Calendar Events

Google believes in small updates and tweaks rather than big product launches. This way, its apps and services get better constantly, though it's also harder to make big a splash. Yet another example of this is the new support for color codes for events in Google Calendar. It's a small update and an obvious ...

10 May 2011
06:31 GMT

Google Calendar Events Unavailable for Some Users

Google touts reliability as one of the big advantages of using a cloud platform. But, of course, cloud services fail as well and, when one is used by millions of people, any problem is going to get users worked up. Google Calendar is currently experiencing issues and, though it only seems to affect a small minority o...

23 February 2011
08:08 GMT

Google Calendar Introduces Optional Attendees

True to Google's regular process, Google Calendar has now gotten a simple new feature, but one that brings it closer to a full-fledged solution, one to compete with existing, desktop applications. The online calendar now supports optional attendees making it easier, especially for business meetings, to known whi...

29 November 2010
13:27 GMT

Windows Phone 7 Tips and Tricks (XIV) – Calendars

Organizing your weekly calendar on a Windows Phone 7 device could not be any easier. Microsoft made it possible to track one's appointments by consolidating multiple calendars into a single tool.After setting up an account from Outlook, Windows Live or Google, you'll notice that the calendar associated with...

26 November 2010
14:01 GMT

Get Desktop Notifications from Google Calendar

Web apps have certainly evolved in the past few years, but there are still a few things that make them inferior to desktop apps. Thankfully, the gap is shortening all the time. The latest example is desktop notifications in Google Calendar. As a web app, Calendar has no way of accessing the OS's notifications sy...

16 September 2010
10:07 GMT

Google Calendar Sync Gets Outlook 2010 Support

Google has just announced on its official Gmail blog, that Google Calendar Sync now supports Outlook 2010. According to the feedback received by the company, this seems to be the major feature requested by the users of the application. Google Calendar is working with multiple mobile devices, such as iCal, iPhone and ...

18 August 2010
09:51 GMT

Google Calendar Sync Adds Support for Outlook 2010

Google Calendar Sync now supports Outlook 2010, one of the most requested features. The newest version of the tool can now sync your online Calendar with the latest version of Outlook. “Google Calendar works with a number of desktop applications and mobile devices including iCal, iPhone and iPad, Blackberry, An...

18 August 2010
05:01 GMT

Get Twitter and Google Calendar in One Application for iPhone

Infoteria Corporation, the first software vendor dedicated to XML in Japan, just announced the launch of "TwitCal" for iPhone. This is a calendar application that can be used to tweet and follow events through Twitter. Users can also integrate their Google Calendar with TwitCal, by combining social and private events...

21 July 2010
11:37 GMT

Google Calendar Gets a Fresh New Look

Google Calendar has been given a fresh coat of paint and the new look is being rolled out for users around the world, by the looks of it. The fresh new look follows Google’s current design aesthetics and principles from some of its other main web apps, like Gmail or Docs. Google hasn’t made the official a...

18 May 2010
10:30 GMT

Gmail Gets Calendar Invitations

Google is introducing an interesting, new feature in Gmail that enables users to insert an event with an email they’re sending. They’ll be able to check the schedule of their friends, if they share their calendar, to see if they’re available at a certain point and then send out invitations to all of...

15 April 2010
12:57 GMT

Google Calendar Gets an Automated Smart Rescheduler

Rescheduling an appointment can be a real hassle and the more people involved the harder it gets. But most people don't have a personal assistant or someone to handle this task, which results in a lot of time wasted trying to fit a meeting into everyone's schedule. Now, Google is trying to fix that with an ...

19 March 2010
07:17 GMT

Google Calendar Labs Gets Three More Interesting Tools

Google's Labs experiments have proven quite successful and quite a hotbed for innovation. With the Labs feature, Google developers feel more at ease experimenting with wild features and tools knowing they won't ruin anyone's experience by doing so. The company has been adding the Labs section to all of...

11 March 2010
09:57 GMT

Google Calendar to Get a More Colorful Look (Pics)

It's not much of a secret that Google is always working on and testing new features or versions of its products. When it is satisfied with the current state of a feature or just needs a lot of data, it quietly serves the test versions to a small subset of users. With hundreds of millions of people using its most...

18 February 2010
06:37 GMT

Google Calendar Tests 'Sneak Preview' Event Creator

Google has spread its interests so wide that it’s hard to keep track of all of them. It's also looks like the company may be jumping from one big project to the other while lacking a very focused goal. At the same time though, several services have always been central to the company. Gmail gets most of th...

23 November 2009
03:26 GMT

Google Tasks for iGoogle Gets a New Interface

Gmail Labs is brimming with tools and features but most of them never leave the experimental repository, largely because they serve a limited set of users. Others though spend their time in Labs as an extended beta period, something that Google knows a lot about, and are finally released to the general public once th...

21 October 2009
10:04 GMT

Google Calendar Adds Sports Calendars and Other New Features

Google Calendar, one of the most used event organizers and calendar systems out there, has added some cool new features to its impressive list. From now on, users will be able to add their favorite team's game schedule with just a few clicks inside their own calendar. Alongside the sport calendar, the company&rs...

3 September 2009
03:04 GMT

Google Introduces Calendar Labs

Gmail Labs has proven very successful for Google and the constant introduction of features and tweaks has made it easy to see which might prove useful and which aren't so popular. But even if a feature never gets promoted from Labs to the regular product, as it may not get too much traction, it could still be ve...

15 July 2009
02:41 GMT

Security and Privacy Gurus Plead to Google for Default HTTPS

Thirty seven security researchers, professionals, privacy advocates and academics have sent a letter to Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, asking him to consider encrypting all connections to Gmail, Google Docs and Google Calendar by default. Google has openly replied that it is considering such an implementation and w...

17 June 2009
04:50 GMT

Seven Offers Push E-mail and Google Calendar Support

Those of you who are looking for solutions to push e-mail to your phones will be pleased to learn that the Seven beta is one program that might be the thing for you. And while being one of the top solutions, Seven also comes with calendar support, especially for Google calendar. Among the features that the beta progr...

4 April 2009
03:54 GMT

Google Calendar Phishing Scam Resurfaces

A phishing campaign that makes use of the Google Calendar features was recently distributed to the users of the service. The same techniques were employed by another Google Calendar-based phishing scam that made the rounds during May and June 2008. According to a report by Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant ...

30 December 2008
08:45 GMT

BusySync 2.0 Syncs iCal with Google Calendar

Following a six-week long beta stage, BusyMac LLC has finally launched BusySync 2.0, featuring iCal and Google Calendar syncing capabilities. BusySync lets you share iCal calendars with family and coworkers on a local area network without a dedicated server and with full read/write access.BusySync sports a lot of nif...

21 April 2008
08:56 GMT


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