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Google Calendar adds Gears support, now available offline
In late January, Google began offering Gears support for your GMail account and now Google Calendar has received offline superpowers as well. Right now the feature is really only handy for getting a look at what's on your schedule: it's read-only, so you can't edit or add events for synchronization later. Since GMail already provides a more complete set of offline features, hopefully we'll see increased functionality in Calendar in the near future.
If you're not using a desktop calendar application with CalDav to do this already, it's a nice reassurance to know that your Calendar data is accessible right in your browser even if you're temporarily without an internet connection.
If you haven't installed the Gears plugin for your browser yet, you'll need to do that, of course. Get it from Google, then flip the switch on your Calendar. Alex at Google OS noted an error message regarding events beyond June 4, 2009, though my calendar imported without issues. Of course, the feature - and Google Calendar itself, for that matter - is still in beta, so bugfixes and enhancements are no doubt already in the works.
[ via Google OS ]
If you're not using a desktop calendar application with CalDav to do this already, it's a nice reassurance to know that your Calendar data is accessible right in your browser even if you're temporarily without an internet connection.
If you haven't installed the Gears plugin for your browser yet, you'll need to do that, of course. Get it from Google, then flip the switch on your Calendar. Alex at Google OS noted an error message regarding events beyond June 4, 2009, though my calendar imported without issues. Of course, the feature - and Google Calendar itself, for that matter - is still in beta, so bugfixes and enhancements are no doubt already in the works.
[ via Google OS ]
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Jon said 9:02AM on 3-04-2009
Whats with posting the continuous late news? Yesterday you got on the whole google Tasks thing after the site was already down, and today, you tell us that this is available, when its been around for a few weeks already! This was announced on their blog almost a month ago!
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Lee Mathews said 9:03AM on 3-04-2009
Last month it was being tested in apps only - it's Google-wide now.