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- Dimah, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27Don't want Google to know what you're doing? Don't tell it!
- willemmulder, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21sure, and your own paper-calendar sucks too... he knows where you'll go!!
And your paper-calendar can secretly be read by any suspicious dude that really wants it. Google is safer than your own cute calendar, because those dudes (or anybody else) do not have any access if you don't want to.
Anyway, if you don't want to tell Google, that's fine, just don't tell.
But if you want to have a free, easy-to-use calendar with sms-reminders... take the 'risk' of Google-engineers sniffing through your dates (w00t) and don't be paranoid about it. They've *much* better things to do than going through your data. - l0th, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19alright, do you mean they've been working on THIS rather than develop some sort of conduit to do two-way syncs with PDAs? I already have many ways to check the weather online (one of them through google personalized homepage that also already has my gcal...). What I need (and I guess I'm not the only one) is some way of getting rid of Microsoft Outlook, completely and forever.
Really disappointing. - elyobelyob, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16Google will know that I want to book a dentist appointment, that I have a game of tennis on Saturday and other generally useless information. It's terrible, they're taking over the world! There's no privacy anymore!
- Amything, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Boo! Weather doesn't work for my country.
- kenflannery, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Nothing huge, but every little bit counts. The weather is the best change I think, one less widget on the homepage.
- JoyrexJ9, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Meh, some half-useful features but still no Outlook integration
(and don't mention RemoteCalendars - I've tried it several times it doesn't work) - yukevster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Yeah great. Now my Google calander is in Japanese 'cause I live here. Can't we have the option to keep it English??
- marnaq, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Mobile synchronization (syncml) would have been nice.
- netean, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10wow... big deal.. surely the most important feature they need to add is easy sychronisation with outlook, sunbird, etc etc.
- felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Perhaps you live in a country that doesn't have any weather.
Have the skies been oddly neutral-colored lately? - DigitalDud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I always hated Google's weather, the data source seems to be hours behind the fact. Sometimes it'll say its 20 degrees lower in Chicago than it actually is.
- russryba, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Sure it's easy, but you'll see weather in everything. It's a super cheap way to get people to tell you their zip code. Let millions of users geocode their IP addresses and user accounts.
It would be interesting to see as an advertiser just how targeted of a market you can reach. Run this adwords campaign only for people in the following zip codes... - l0th, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Who said I wouldn't pay for the conduit. As matter of fact I would, and I think some company will make the thing and will get my money. You shouldn't whine about people being whiny before you get all your facts right.
- felyduw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Me too, I had United States as country in the settings, I changed it to my own and poof! No more weather. Too bad...
- zetsurin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Wow, now I can book appointments confident in the knowlege that I can stay home safely when it's a full moon.
- scagnetti, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Still waiting for the ability to send reminders for appts that are on shared calendars. I think I read somewhere on their help section that they're working on it.
- hotpepper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Amen.
Adding weather still hasn't made me a Google Calendar user. Until I can synchronise my calendar with Outlook (and hence my PDA), I won't be using it. - stylesP, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4dont use it if you dont trust it/them
its that simple - Amything, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Are you outside US? It's not displayed if your country is not supported.
- binarymelon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You can make it supported in your country if you change your country to the US, input your weather settings and then change your country back. Just input your City and two letter Province/Territory/State/etc. code.
- spooky760, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3That is why I use Yahoo Calendar. Intellisync will keep it up to date with my Outlook, I use BitPIm to sync my phone's calendar, and my.yahoo.com to check my contacts / calendar if for some reason I am without my phone or pda. Simple 2 way sync between Google calendar and Outlook and I am there.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4WTF makes people think that "Google" could care a rats posterior about their personal schedule? And why is a computer algorithm that scans text and gives context-sensitive advertisements given a almost-human status. It's not like Eric is reading everyone's calendar, emails etc and matching them with advertisements or something.
I guess you would just be happy if they kept giving you all the search results you need without making any money themselves. - GarySZ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2....that and the ability to "snooze" a reminder are my two biggest wish-list items for it.
- macewan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It would be nice if you could hover over a calendar event and have it display the details of that event in a little window.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Google Calendar rocks, beside flickr the best tool on the internet!
- hotpepper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I tried it too and it duplicated everything in my calendar.
- basjanssen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'd like a (probably paid) service that send me a text message to my phone in stead of an alert on my PC... you see, I don't have a PDA, and this way I can walk about university and know where I have to go all day long! Great! Hm and I also don't care about what the moon is doing, as long as it's not falling down on earth.
- l0th, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I'm no google fan boy, but you got me really scared anyway. Do you think this world is coming to an end? Do you think google has made a secret pact with the devil? Do you think the big G of Google, Gmail, Gcal stands for a big 6 in l337 language? Man 666! THE DEVIL! He's here! Lurking! Spying on my appointments, weighing my soul scrutinizing my e-mails and my search history of the last few years. And now he'll probably be waiting for me at that dentist appointment he saw I had today. This weather thing is *really* useless because now I'm so scared I won't leave my home. Ever again.
- dimplemonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Moon phases? Huh!? Am I needing this so I can know when to plant my crops?
- l0th, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I read you could do this at http://www.scheduleworld.com
Tried it myself, doesn't sync properly with gcal. Try it for yourself maybe you'll be luckier than me. - jydesign, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I agree with AndroJen
TO-DO-LIST, when????? - derosion, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@elyobelyob
... and will consequentially feed you adverts related to dental hygiene, fitness and tennis elbow. I don't mind that, since I'm gonna see their adverts anyhow and there are none on the calendar itself. If you mind that, don't use it. - l0th, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1you can do this if you set up a calendar at http://www.airset.com and set it to sync with your gcal. Then you set your account to send you alerts by text messages.
- Eccles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Anyone know if they did anything about refreshing externally linked calendars? Having to delete and reload my calendars from icalx.com was a pain. I suppose I could just base my calendars at google now, but I'd like to have the option.
- felyduw, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2If you were a girl you might have a use for the moon phases...
- mjpatey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Google seems to be down for me right now (spotty for the last hour or so). Other sites are connecting just fine. Anyone else?
- BobMysterioso, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hope not.. you should be harvesting these days.
- Inbal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That's exactly what happens when you simply click the event title, though I can't understand why they don't show all the details and allow editing in that large anyway window (in new events as well).
- Inbal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The strange thing is that it could show me the weather in London and in Paris after I changed my country to the US, but it didn't show the weather option at all on any other country setting.
And I don't think the service is that useful anyway if they're only going to provide a 4 days forecast - I already have that on my browser. It would be awesome to have weather estimations for weeks or months ahead, to better plan big events. I wonder if they include the weather forecast in invitations now... If not, they should. - l0th, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Why would you want to see a tiny little icon in the calendar widget? Just add a separate weather widget:
http://www.google.com/ig/directory?hl=en&num=24&url=http://www.google.com/ig/modules/builtin_weather.xml&q=weather&start=0
http://www.google.com/ig/directory?hl=en&num=24&url=http://boolean.googlepages.com/localweather.xml&q=&start=0
If you're into moon phases (WTF?), it's doable as well:
http://www.google.com/ig/directory?hl=en&num=24&url=http://www.calculatorcat.com/gmodules/current_moon.xml&q=&start=0 - Inbal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Moved. Geez, my name is going to appear a lot on this page...
- binarypower, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If Google wanted to snoop through my calendar and know when I'm going to be at Wal-Mart buying underwear so they can send a group of 4 people to follow me with conceptual advertising links... then let them.
- mjpatey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Very strange, I can get into Calendar, but Gmail and IG won't load. Anyone?
- Inbal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If they wanted to be considerate towards girls, they could have added a "schedule event in ... days" option, or an easy way to count the days between two dates. I've been waiting for this kind of feature forever.
- AndroJen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What about a task/to-do list google?
- autodata, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1For the weather I've long been using the wunderground ical feed. I can't tell which one I like better since they both take up the same amount of space. Using the wunderground ical feed is less visually jarring, though, since it shows up as just a regular all-day task.
- publiccomp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You already have that option. Go to your calendar settings, and look at the very first option.
- Dcherub, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0you can do this through google calendar can't you? just go to settings...
- elyobelyob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@derosion (reply) .. I'm British .. we could maybe do with some dental stuff .. as long as it's not just whitening .. look what happened to Richard "Hamster" Hammond (Top Gear).
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