Comments on: Speed Linking – While I was gone

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 13:17:51 +0000

wierd Tim – works for me….hmmm

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 13:00:14 +0000

The link to Elliot Back’s top ten designs didn’t work for me… but I found it here:
http://elliottback.com/wp/?p=1351

By: selfprofit

selfprofit — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 12:49:14 +0000

Google Calendar may be very useful but need somw time to apply it for myself

By: kalbzayn

kalbzayn — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:40:19 +0000

The Google Calendar works just fine, but I’m surprised they released a calendar without task/todo capability. Yahoo has it. Hotmail has it. But somehow Google forgot it. I guess the argument would be that they are still in beta, but who makes a calendar these days without task/todo capability?

By: Don M

Don M — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:05:15 +0000

The interface of Google Calendar is alright. I do not like the fact that you can only have email notifications of events sent to Gmail only.

I also don’t like that Verizon (my cel phone provider whose contract I JUST renewed) is not listed in the celphone provider list for text message notifications.

There are hacks already out there for both of these issues, but I don’t think one should have to use hacks for those two simple things – which makes Google Calendar pretty useless for me.

-dm

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 06:55:51 +0000

The Google calendar is great, but I just tried the new hotmail interface. It is much like Outlook, which will impress MS users. It is in built with a calendar and place to easily manage your contacts.

I have only been using gmail of late, but Microsoft has given a reason for people to go back to hotmail.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 06:36:43 +0000

Rad. Thanks for all the information. Your blogs are always very informative. Welcome back!

I might have to try a hand in AdWords referring.

Cheers,

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 04:06:34 +0000

So far I like the new google calendar. I’ve only used the basic “add an event” and notification features. I’ve not gotten around to testing the more advanced sharing and iCal features yet.

I liked how easy it was to set up SMS notifications to my phone. It was much faster and easier than yahoo.

I do not like that it doesn’t offer the option to be notified of an even at the exact time of the event. I’m reading and writing so much that I easily lose track of time and forget events even if I’ve been notified 5 minutes beforehand.

So I simply schedule all events up five minutes and use the 5 minute notification. To be fair yahoo makes me do the same thing.

Jeremy