Google released an in-house tool yesterday for syncing Google Calendar with Outlook. Yay!
I have tried all the other free solutions, and none of them worked. They either synced n0thing or they duplicated everything every couple of days. The new sync tool works great.
I recently purchased a new cell phone. Given the parameters of the deal I was offered and available funds, the phone I ended up buying did not have the ability to sync with Outlook (the software of choice for keeping our family organised).
Since then, however, I have found a way to get it a step closer to acting like PIM, or at least two of the most popular features I use in Outlook: email and event reminders. And Google helped me do it.
The key is setting up notifications in Gmail and Google calendar and having text messaging capabilities on your phone.
In Gmail, complete the following steps:
You will now receive emails on your phone. Keep in mind that some providers may truncate your emails (mine truncates messages to 160 characters).
Now for Google Calendar:
Keep in mind that some carriers charge for incoming messages. Fortunately, mine does not.
Now if I could find a way to transfer my 400 contacts over.
Google showtimes search now works in Canada. Specifically it works in Lethbridge. See [the descent lethbridge ab] for an example.
Google has released a new feature in GMail: reply by chat.
I have wanted to do this numerous times. On the surface it looks cool, to be able to see someone who has sent you email is online. There’s more however; it also groups the resulting chat log in with the email conversation.
Very cool.
Google Calendar is now live. You may need to have a GMail or Google account to sign up. Here are some features I wish it had.
I am so excited about this. InformationWeek announced that Google has acquired online word processing provider, Writely. The announcement has caused Writely to shut down new registrations as they do the migration. I am glad I registered when I did. All my non-work documents are created in Writely. I hope there is tighter integration with GMail.
If you haven’t heard, Google announced an integration between Google Talk and GMail. This means Google Talk users will now be able to chat directly in the browser. Even more, GMail users will be able to chat with each other, without having to install Google Talk. A step closer to complete web-based applications.
In addition, GMail now has an option to archive Google Talk chats. I am very excited about this. I could not even begin to tell you how many times I needed to reference an old conversation and could not recall if it was email or IM. Now it does not matter.
Google doesn’t appear to be very standards oriented. I noticed these validation errors while searching for something on Google.
Google recently implemented a new feature on their maps page that allows users to overlay roads on satellite images. Just click on the “Hybrid” button next to the “Satellite” button on the maps. It seems to be more accurate than swtichign between the two old views.
Google now offers currency conversion among its calculator features. For example, the current exchange from one Canadian dollar to US dollars is 81.07 cents.