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Google released a calendar synchronization tool a while back and today i thought i’d give it a spin. Well, it turns out things aren’t that easy (with beta software). When installing the sync tool, the installer kindly informed me that i should close Outlook before proceeding. I closed Outlook and told the [...]

I just discovered that “a little ska band”, Reel Big Fish is playing in Tavastia next Monday. This information was provided to me by Last.FM, based on music i’ve played and “scrobbled” (RBF are there at artist #92). The Recommended events engine can also recommend me events based on my musical taste, i.e. bands that [...]

I was finally drawn to Google Apps for Domains, which basically is GMail, GCalendar and GDocs for your domain name. What finally got me interested was that “regular” GMail is filtered at her job.
I’m a great fan of integration. I think stuff should work well together or they don’t work at all. I [...]

At work, we’ve been wondering for some time how the contents of some Outlook event information marked private can become visible to somebody who you’re sharing calendar information as read-only, a common practice at our company. My colleague found an interesting tidbit in the Outlook help files today:
 Important   You should not rely on the Private feature [...]

Time is linear.

My PC Suite broke. Or rather, the Synchronization bit, which was the one i needed and used the most. Having a telephone that doesn’t carry my calendar and my contacts sucks. Which is the same as having two calendars and two sets of contacts, which equally sucks.
Enter the Mail for Exchange, the Exchange synch plugin [...]

Disclaimer: i’ve been living under a rock for the last few months so this is probably old news to you die hard web2.0 geeks out there.
Google has a protocol, and an API to follow, that allows the coding user to access certain data from Google sites. Since that was pretty vague, let me concretisize. Half [...]

Yes, it is beta, evidently more beta than Google’s other products, but Google Calendar is slowly showing signs of usefulness. Yesterday, i actually managed to subscribe to the iCal data from Google Calendar to Kontact, which i moaned about earlier.
Still, two things bug me. I cannot upload from Kontact to GCal, and the user interface [...]

And now, this. Google has created a calendar to expand its family of products. Of course i registered. I’m a google sucker, i suppose.
But again, a word blew across the room and into my mind. Interoperability. Here’s yet another calendar, and i’ve already got more than i can think of. Or put more [...]

I’ve used a PDA for a few years now and i’m quite happy with a gadget which works like a calendar that actually reminds me to look at it. I use it as a shopping list, a small surf board, a to-do list and a platform to play solitaire and sudoku on. Granted, there are [...]