Tag: CALENDAR

For all the good that Google has done in helping us keep our e-mails and events organized, it's notoriously bad for hiding useful tools and features out of sight. We've got two simple tips today for opening up Google Calendar's potential. Google Calendar's '4 days' view has always seemed out of place, but makes much more sense when you realize it's customizable. You'll need to head to Settings to ...

Now that you've got your Facebook events in order and your work and personal calendars synced across all of your computers, it's time to pull your events into your phone. Sure, Google offers a decent Web-based calendar optimized for mobile devices, but we prefer dedicated apps for their ability to work without a data connection. Google's two-way Sync service sends changes from your phone to the ...

You've got your calendars organized and spread across multiple devices, but you've still got a few stragglers. The Web-based version of Google Calendar is fine, but it lacks some of the niceties of desktop apps. Today, we'll show you how to sync your Google Calendars with iCal and Outlook. Back in the early '00s, getting your schedule synced across multiple devices was a headache of clunky ...

This week we'll help kick your Google calendars into shape. As with contacts and e-mail, Google provides a way to keep your calendars synced across multiple apps, computers and devices. As a primary source of party invites, meetups and family gatherings, Facebook is an unfortunate common ground for events these days. If you want to keep your Facebooking to a minimum -- or would prefer a single ...

The Web is teeming with the unrealized ideas of both students and established designers who set out to produce astonishing renderings and prototypes for unusual products. Unfortunately, due to the lack of time, money, or technology, many of those products never progress from the planning stages to the mass market. But that doesn't mean we can't salivate over them, nevertheless. While you've ...

With two wars, an oil spill and a stagnant economy on his political agenda, President Obama is, in all likelihood, busier than you. Now, though, you can at least pretend like you lead the free world, by adding the POTUS's daily schedule to your own iCal. As part of its efforts to promote a more open government, the White House has just published the President's complete schedule for all to see, ...

From now on, Gmail users won't have to go digging around their hard drives to manually attach files to e-mails, nor will they be forced to twiddle their thumbs while waiting for the attachments to upload. That's because Google has introduced a new "drag and drop" attachment feature for those Gmail users who employ either Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox 3.6. It means pretty much what it says: all ...

Google aficionados who are lucky enough (or dumb enough, depending on your perspective) to own an iPhone can finally stop complaining about uneven functionality with that search giant's apps: In addition to releasing yesterday's Gmail upgrade, the company created an iPhone-specific version of its home page and related services. The new page offers easy-to-access tabs for many Google services, ...

We've learned that people like gadgets that shred things. There's nothing like a wanton act of destruction in the name of productivity and interesting design. In that vein we present you with the Chrono_Shredder. Another design exercise like the Hamster Powered Paper Shredder. The Chrono_Shredder, from Susanna Hertrich, is a red box that hangs on the wall and holds a daily calendar on a paper ...