Google to launch offline calendar feature?

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Google to launch offline calendar feature?

by Brad Linder Mar 14th 2008

It looks like Google is preparing to add offline functionality to Google Calendar. A few days ago the folks at the Digital Streets blog noticed that Google seemed to have added some code to the Google Calendar page that would bring up a prompt to install Google Gears for access to 3 months worth of calendar data while you're offline. But once you install Google Gears, nothing happens.

The plot thickened on Thursday when Googlified noticed a new option in the settings section of Google Calendar. Go ahead and check, odds are you'll see an "Offline" tab in your own calendar settings. When you click the tab, you're told to download Google Gears. Unfortunately, once you install Google Gears, nothing seems to happen. Visiting Google Calendar with Gears installed just brings up the plain old Google Calendar with no option to save your data for offline viewing. But we get the feeling that Google wouldn't be adding features to the Google Calendar settings menu if the company didn't plan to activate those features soon.

Tags: google-calendar, google-gears, offline

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

sitruc said 7:08AM on 3-14-2008

Is this why the one time I actually tried to use Google calendar the other day it wouldn't let me add csv files?

dectus said 7:08AM on 3-14-2008

I have the offline tab too (even with italian version) :)

gverdun said 7:08AM on 3-14-2008

Same here in Google Calendar in french.
BUT... installing Google Gears just make Firefox crash every time. Got to remove it at once ! What a pity !

Tony Ruscoe said 7:08AM on 3-14-2008

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That JavaScript hack has been around a long time. I think I was the first to mention it here, almost 5 months ago:

http://blogoscoped.com/forum/112044.html#id112057

Calgoo said 12:59PM on 3-20-2008

Google has been working on this for sometime now.

If you're looking for a Google Calendar offline solution in the meantime you might want to check out one of our products called Calgoo Calendar.

On top of that we offer various other calendaring solutions that solve many of the major calendaring pains out there such as syncing and sharing.

Food for thought!

Calgoo
www.calgoo.com

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