Yawning over the Google Calendar »
So the Google Calendar is finally live. Did anyone notice? Don't get me wrong, I'm sure it's lovely and all. But in case you've forgotten, Yahoo! has had a calendar for a really long time. Sure, it's missing the Ajax and whatnot, but it's there.
I use the calendar in Outloook quite regularly, so I can understand the need of a good calendar application. But I'm thinking that the fact that I can't really sync the two makes the Google calendar somewhat useless to me. I'm not going to enter the data there any more than I did into the Yahoo! app. Heck, at one time, I did sync the Yahoo! Calendar, and I got tired of doing so so I stopped.
If the two would sync automatically, then perhaps I would make use of both. But if not? I doubt it. While I continue to like Google's products, and suspect that they will continue to improve upon them, I don't think that they are quite worthy of all the praise in this case. It's just another web app.
Comments (5)
I use my Palm calendar. It's always with me and that makes all the difference.
Posted by Ted on April 16, 2006 8:56 AM
I find that I couldn't even sync to a Palm device. I barely use the calendar in Outlook. That is, I use it, but I barely use it.
I record things in it, but I have reminders galore. At this writing, I have 20 reminders. The oldest is 16 weeks overdue and the newest is just 1 day overdue. So perhaps I'm just not a calendar kind of guy.
Posted by Chad Everett on April 27, 2006 12:58 PM
As a casual user of Yahoo & Trumba I see google just adding a little bit more and leaving some vitals.
The sync feature is essential as this is what increases mobility and I think boys at zyb have been better off till now. Fresh and free as thety are the sync to mobile (both appointments and phonebook) is a good add on.
Others are bound to follow soon and google promises sync function soon. I hope it wont be limited to US users, which is the case most of the times.
Posted by Katherine on May 16, 2006 3:19 AM
Hi,
if you want, you can sync BOTH ways between Google Calendar and Outlook by using the RemoteCalendars plugin. Here are the instructions. ;)
Posted by LastHope on May 18, 2006 6:19 AM
Yes indeed, that looks pretty cool. I don't have the .net stuff installed, so I can't check it out right now, but I'll try and do so when I get the chance. Thanks for the links!
Posted by Chad Everett on May 18, 2006 8:57 AM