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Offline Calendar from : Google Labs

March 5th, 2009 1 comment

goog-calendar-logoIn addition to offline access to Gmail while you’re travelling or without a strong internet connection, you can now see your Google Calendar events when you’re disconnected. Offline Calendar lets you view your existing schedule and events, but not edit them, so you don’t have to print out calendars the night before a trip. This feature has been available to businesses and schools using Google Apps for about a month; we’re now turning it on for everyone.

Like Gmail, the offline feature of Calendar uses Gears, an open source browser extension that adds offline functionality directly to the browser.

To enable offline Calendar access, sign in to Google Calendar and look for the "Offline Beta" link in the upper right-hand corner of your account, next to your username. We’ve released this early and are still ironing out some kinks, so if you encounter any issues, be sure to let us know. If you access Calendar through the Premier or Education Editions of Google Apps, your domain administrator will first have to elect to turn on new features from the Domain Settings page of the Google Apps control panel.

There are multiple ways to see your calendar when you’re away from your desk — in addition to offline mode, we offer two-way sync for iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile and Blackberry devices. So wherever you go, Google Calendar can be there with you.

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New in labs: Add your location to your

February 11th, 2009 No comments


For the travel bugs here comes yet another google woogle .. magic trick.  Now add your location along with your signature in the mail.  This could be a very good tool for the ones who want to keep people posted about their location but a very nasty ones who are lying to their bosses and friend about the whereabouts. .:D .. 

 

To try it, turn on Location in Signature from the Labs tab under Settings, then go to your signature preferences and check the box next to “Append your location to the signature.”

Although for an accurate location detection, make sure your browser has a version of Gears that supports the location module. 
All i can say is thanks google for another trick :D  


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