- 1. Make a Date with an Online Calendar in 2008
- 2. Yahoo Calendar
- 3. Google Calendar
1. Make a Date with an Online Calendar in 2008
Tom’s Guide To Online Calendars
Introduction
The beginning of the year is always a great time to start a new calendar. But with a traditional print version, you’re usually stuck with having to buy a new one in January. However, February (or any other month) works just as well with the online variety.
Beyond the benefit of being able to start a new calendar whenever you want, an online calendar can offer things that one made of dead trees simply cannot. Online versions are easily shared enabling others to see your agenda information and letting you see event information from other sources. They can be setup to remind you of events with various types of alerts by email, instant message or SMS. Of course, unlike wall calendars, an online calendar can exist wherever you might be.
Not all online calendars are equal, though they are similar in many respects.
In this review, we take the big three for a spin with the latest Yahoo, Google and Microsoft online calendars to see where they differ, where they succeed and where they fail.
- 1. Make a Date with an Online Calendar in 2008
- 2. Yahoo Calendar
- 3. Google Calendar
- 4. Microsoft Windows Live Calendar
- 5. Conclusions
One big feature that appears to be missing from the article is Googles ability to recognise events from emails and add them directly from gmail, even if the event was just a regular email with times and places.
Also, depending on the view, creating an event at a certain time and for a certain duration is also easy - just click the time and drag for how long you want it to be. There is also some tricky logic that allows you to click on 8:30am, add a description of "Metting at Head Office at 1325" and have google figure out that the meeting location is head office and the time is actually 1:25pm.
if you are using Blackberry, maybe other mobile devices... Only Google calendar, can you sync over the air. and the sync is automatic. You put some stuff on your mobile device or on the web, they sync!
However, yahoo go! can sync your contacts. I hope Google will allow you to sync.
also, Google has other mobile apps and they upgrade automatically.
Google is just cool....
I use www.plaxo.com to sync automatically both ways my Google and Outlook calendars. It was easy to setup and it really works well.
Take a look at Cozi. works well for busy families. It is both web based and has a program that you can download to your PC. I also has a free toolbar that syncs great with Outlook.
I´m using my Google Calendar with Mozilla Thunderbird.
Check "Lightning" and "Provider for Goggle Calendar" extensions. It´ll be a good surprise
One important point is Yahoo's lack of support for iCal/ICS.
They should have reviewed Airset.com's offering, which is far and away the best online solution for calendaring out there, especially if you want to sync with multiple desktops.
"What?s interesting though is that you can just click to add an event but the quick view doesn?t offer the choice of selecting a time"
This isn't true... when you single-click on a calendar date, you can enter a time in the same box as the event title, and the page recognizes the time when you save it.
Sorry, the last comment was in reference to Google Calendar.
have you seen FriendEvent (www.friend-event.com)?
its a pretty neat calendar social network. it doesnt have all the intense importing/syncing features of google calendar, but i think its supposed to be more geared towards the social aspect of sharing events with friends.