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Google Calendar adds holidays, sports calendars, birthdays
And if you click the "More" tab you'll see an option to add the birthdays of contacts in your Google address book.
The beauty of Google Calendar is that each of these items is added as a separate calendar. Want to see your personal appointments without all the clutter? Just unselect the sports, holiday, and birthday calendars in your sidebar temporarily to make those appointments go away.
In related news, if you're too lazy to add all the appropriate holiday calendars to your site and just want to figure out whether it's a holiday today or not, there's a single-purpose web site for that. It's called... are you ready for this? IsItAHolidayToday.com. It doesn't have the most comprehensive list of holidays I've ever seen, but if it did, you'd probably see a holiday every single day.
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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Richard said 11:14AM on 9-03-2009
I'm sorry to say it but "IsItAHolidayToday.com" is pretty pathetic. For example, the author hasn't even bothered to go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_holidays_by_country and add them into the database!
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thePeterN said 1:23PM on 9-03-2009
I especially like the little football icon that appears next to the game events! You could probably find a schedule for your team before, but this is nice. Now if they could only get auto racing schedules on there.
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Shawn said 1:24PM on 9-03-2009
I agree with thePeterN that racing schedules would be nice. I wonder if I could sync this with my touch? Google does it again. Looks like more goes to the cloud!!
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milrtime83 said 1:24PM on 9-03-2009
Nice addition, but the calendars I add don't seem to sync with my blackberry using google sync. Adding sports calendars from mysportscal.com do work with the sync.
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Rahabib said 4:23PM on 9-03-2009
I think its because syncing with most mobile devices only sync with the primary calendar. Since this just adds a secondary calendar it wont sync. If you sync from another location like you have before it will work.
Christian said 4:30PM on 9-03-2009
Incorrect, Rahabib. You can sync all of your additional calendars EXCEPT for the Google provided ones.