Google Bringeth and Google Taketh Away
Published by Mike Nolan on May 3rd, 2007 in Edge Hill, Rants.My life outside work is managed by Google Calendar. In fact, I’d prefer if my life in work was managed by Google Calendar as well because GroupWise calendar sucks. I have several different calendars to manage different types of event - Explorers, Birthdays, General etc - but only your primary calendar gets notifications. Until today that is. So imagine my excitement when an announcement came through in Google Reader saying that they’ve introduced SMS and email notifications on secondary and subscribed calendars!
So I logged on to take a look and couldn’t find anything. Went to the Google Calendar Group and started reading some threads but the instructions didn’t seem to work for me. Then I read this. I know I’ve been banging on about “Release Early, Release Often“, but come on, sort it out Google! And while you’re at it, please stop sending me day SMS notifications at 4:30am, and sort out synchronisation with mobile phones, and add to do lists, and…
May 3rd, 2007 at 8:28 pm
I can’t help you with the notifications but I can help you with synchronization of Google Calendar and mobile phones. I’m part of a company that developed a free program that lets you view and modify your calendars in real time. It’s still in beta testing but it is functioning very well and it is getting a very positive response. If you want to check it out you can find it at http://www.mobilegcal.com.