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Calgoo goes free: sync Google Calendar, iCal, and others for free

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Since the dawn of time Google Calendar, we've been waiting for a free, easy way to fully synchronize our Google Calendar to desktop calendar clients like iCal. We'd love to be able to access the same calendar data across multiple computers, but it's always been a messy affair, not free, an incomplete solution, or PC only.

Well, Calgoo has been one of those paid options up until now, but the minds behind the program just announced that it is free from here on out. That's right, Calgoo is now the free option in Google Calendar and desktop caledar synchronization. Calgoo officially supports 30 Boxes, Apple iCal, Microsoft Outlook, and -- of course -- Google Calendar.

Calgoo's "Chief Owl" will not employ ads in the app in order to pay for the costs of developing the program, but the team will begin to run ads on Calgoo Hub and possibly other future products. As for the software itself, it's pretty easy to use, and it provides for two-way synchonization, which means that any changes on one calendar will apply to the other.

[via WebWorkerDaily]

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The 30 Boxes Webtop

30 Boxes Webtop30 Boxes' Narendra Rocherolle wrote in to tell us about the new 30 Boxes Webtop, which is basically, well, a personalized home page a la Netvibes or Goowy. What sets it apart, of course, is that it's tightly integrated with the 30 Boxes calendar, so if you're already a 30 Boxes user you may prefer it to other home page options. Right now it's pretty basic, with upcoming events, buddy updates, to-do list, and Google search widgets, plus the ability to add any web page--including other services like Gmail or Meebo--as an embedded widget. Rocherolle writes about the webtop update on the 30 Boxes blog, and from the looks of it there's lots more in the works. I hope, at the very least, they add an RSS feed widget soon.

Filed under: Office, Productivity, Web services

30 Boxes: Best web-based calendar ever?

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30 Boxes is a next-generation web-based calendar that'll be hitting beta later this week. I'm not very excitable when it comes to web-based calendards, even the new breed of AJAXy ones, but blogger Thomas Hawk got in on an early demo (along with a few other Web 2.0 notables like Matt Mullenweg and Andy Baio) and declared: "Best... Calendar... EVER!" In his long review, Hawk calls 30 Boxes "one of the most exciting social network tools I've seen in a long time and reiterates Om Malik's sentiment that it "will be to calendars what GMail was to email." It sounds like 30 Boxes has hit all the right buttons, and I must say after reading Hawk's review I'm pretty sold, though there's no word yet on whether it's going to be a free service or require a subscription.

[Via Waxy.org]

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