CalendarReview

Google has worked hard on changing the look of a lot of their products lately and Gcal has now joined that row. For now the changes are just cosmetic and have not affected the way calendar works. The whole look has become whiter and more rectangular with the goal to get more focus, improve elasticity and make working with Gcal more…

In this in depth Windows Phone 7.5 preview little  space is used to describe the calendar’s capabilities. One point that is very interesting is that Facebook events can be imported into the WP calendar. Till now I have been surprised by the lack of integration of Facebook events with any device or (mobile) application. Both from FB side and from the calendar side it…

Apple announced it’s new operating system OS X lion last week at the WWDC. In this new OS a couple of changes are made to iCal. According to the new feature list iCal will get a new look that gives you more room to browse and edit events, the day and the year view will be enhanced…

Easy calendar is designed to to make finding and adding appointments in your iPhone easier. It takes about half the time adding events via Easy calendar compared to the default iPhone calendar view. The week view (a function that is still missing in the default iPhone calendar) is very neat and handy.  The app is temporarily for free in the app…

It was not a feature on my top 10 most wanted new features for Google calendar but Google added color coding your events as a new feature. Have fun.

Biro M&T has released ‘Do It Tomorrow‘, a Windows desktop application based on the book ‘Do It Tomorrow and Other Secrets of Time Management’, written by time management coach Mark Forster. It is basically a calendar task diary but it differs from common calendar task list systems by several unique…

Yesterday I received an newsletter from the Dutch railways, NS, stating that travelers are now able to add the itinerary they found on the company’s website to Outlook. That seems like a very good idea so I tried it right away. I’m pretty happy with the implementation.  In my calendar I get, of course, the departure time  but…

The calendar & scheduling consortium, Calconnect, has published a new proposal for adding a number of new iCalendarproperties which are of particular use for event publishers and in social networking. These properties are:

• STRUCTURED-CONTACT
• SPONSOR
• PARTICIPANT
• STRUCTURED-LOCATION

All of these can point to vcards which makes the interaction between calendar and contact better.…

I’d like to start a discussion about the difference between calendaring and booking, as it relates to a swathe of new websites which take the SaaS calendaring model, and layer ontop of it a rules-based  ‘shopfront’ such that calendaring platforms can be used for business-to-customer incarnations.  This additional layer makes it possible to automate the appointment creation for para/professionals where…

For some time now it is possible to add your Foursquare check-ins to your calendar if it supports ics subscription. Adding your check-ins is pretty straight forward:

1. Login to foursquare from your web browser
2. Go to foursquare feeds
3. Copy the link (URL) for the the ICS feed
4. Paste the link into your calendar app subscription

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