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Have you had any luck trying to import an iCal file into Google Calendar yet? Every time I try to import the .ics file my desktop client (Oracle Calendar) produces, it tells me the connection to the server was reset.

Posted by: Joel at April 15, 2006 10:42 AM

hey, I'm in DC, perhaps you could show me around georgetown? or something? send me your phone number. email: jmn47@cornell.edu

Posted by: Jonathan at April 15, 2006 2:29 PM

I don't get the hype about Google Calendar... what's so special about it that should make me want to switch from iCal???

-Z-

Posted by: Zeeshan at April 15, 2006 2:53 PM

i know i'm like, the last person on the planet the doesn't have gmail but i've never gotten one of those invites. i'll totally use one if you've got it.

Posted by: Ula at April 15, 2006 3:40 PM

Joel: I don't use Macs, so no, I haven't tried that. I was previously using alpha and beta version of Mozilla Sunbird.

Z: Wel, it's accessible from anywhere. If you're on a public computer, or a friend's computer, you can still go to Google Calendar and access your schedule. Besides that I don't know, and I've never used iCal.

Ula: done.

Posted by: David Barzelay at April 15, 2006 4:00 PM

The biggest feature Google Calendar seems to be lacking at the moment is the ability to label event entries and have them show up with different colored backgrounds depending on the label. That would be a great feature.

Posted by: David Barzelay at April 15, 2006 4:01 PM

I think you have to make a separate, but not shared, calendar for events you want colored. If you go to the "Take The Tour" section it explains it on page 5 of 5. They give the example of "U.S. Holidays" and stuff like that.

And speaking of U.S. holidays, "Happy Spring Holiday" to you, David. Just doin' my part.

Posted by: Amanda at April 15, 2006 9:45 PM

It seems like you can sync Google Calendar and iCal (or any other calendar you have on your computer) by having iCal subscribe to the Google one, but no the other way around. You have to add new events through Google.

It's nice that you can access it from anywhere and show other people your schedule, but unless you can get online basically everywhere you go, it might be a problem. I know it won't really be helpful to me this summer because of this. I might give it a shot in the fall, though.

Posted by: Aaron at April 16, 2006 10:24 AM

The most important feature would be the ability to sync with a palm pilot and outlook (or other standalone mail clients). If they had that, I'd love to use it, but they don't, so I won't.

Sadly.

Posted by: Brian at April 20, 2006 6:04 PM

That's a very interesting technique, putting your email as "barzelay" a.t. Rumorsdaily. Do you track spam according to how they got your address? In any case, my site doesn't ever publish the emails people use, it just logs them in the database.

Posted by: David Barzelay at April 20, 2006 6:12 PM