November 6, 2011
Following the new looks they’ve launched to all their products, Google just added a new feature to Google Calendar – Suggested Times. If you use Google Calendar to schedule multi-participant events, this new feature should make your life a lot easier, provided your guests are also using Google Calendar. To use the feature, create a new event and add some guests.
October 21, 2011
So many of us use Google Calendar every day without once thinking about all the extra useful things it’s capable of doing for you. Every now and then you probably find yourself paying attention to a Google Calendar feature you hadn’t really thought of or noticed before and thinking “Well, I should definitely set that up – That’s SO USEFUL!”. No doubt adding calendar entries by SMS will be another one of those things.
October 13, 2011
Are you sometimes a little forgetful when it comes to your friends’ birthdays? Or do you just like having all the important dates filed away in the same place? Whichever category you fit into, you’ll love this neat little trick. Facebook has lots of information on our friends, including their birthdays, and it’s surprisingly easy to now get that information somewhere useful like your calendar.
September 1, 2011
I think at this point we can all agree that the infamous cloud is not going away. That being said, the cloud does have some disadvantages, and the most glaring of these is when you do not have an Internet connection available. Fear not, because Google has you covered as they are now offering offline access to Gmail, Docs and Calendar.
August 24, 2011
Ever since I got my first Android phone, a good old HTC EVO 4G, I’ve been very impressed with the idea of widgets on the homescreen. I had previously owned an iPod Touch, which I thought was great, but now it makes sense to not only have links to apps, bookmarks, and folders, but also [...]
August 22, 2011
Alongside Google’s hot social networking platform, the Mountain View based company has redesigned many of its products’ user interfaces over the past few months in an effort to provide a cleaner and more streamlined feel. Most of these changes are totally aesthetic, but they are easier on the eye and make the Google experience much more pleasurable.
July 22, 2011
What do you do if you don’t use Facebook to keep track of your work calendar and doctor appointments? How can you merge your Facebook events and your professional events? Google has the answer, and it’s by simply importing your Facebook events to your Google calendar and having everything in one place.
July 5, 2011
Google have recently been rolling out a new design for Google Calendar and Gmail, sporting a minimalist theme. The new look of the Google services is designed to match the recently released Google+. The Google+ design is reported by Techcrunch to have been created by original Macintosh designer, Andy Hertzfeld.
May 26, 2011
Remove the clutter from Gmail, Facebook, Google Calendar and Google Reader. The Minimalist Suite is a series of extensions for Google Chrome that simplifies the interface of these major web apps. These extensions live up to the ideal of allowing you control of what does and doesn’t show up, while also allowing you to change the color schemes and more of these sites.
February 22, 2011
Families today face challenges that are very different from say a hundred years ago. Today’s world is dominated by technology, information overflow, and appointments. For parents, i.e. the managers of the social enterprise known as family, there is no way around thorough planning. A calendar is not an option, but a necessity! Famundo is an [...]
