{"id":213,"date":"2008-08-29T12:45:44","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T20:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=213"},"modified":"2008-08-29T12:45:44","modified_gmt":"2008-08-29T20:45:44","slug":"google-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/29\/google-calendar\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a couple of 2-3 years since the last time I played with <a href=\"http:\/\/calendar.google.com\/\">Google Calendar<\/a>. At the time, I thought it was interesting, but not compelling enough to migrate away from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/support\/ical\/\">iCal<\/a>. (Or even go to the trouble to integrate it with iCal.)<\/p>\n<p>Today I played with it some more, and I liked it. Not least because it enabled me to publish a calendar that I could then subscribe to in iCal. This might have been one of the reasons I didn&#8217;t like it back then: I didn&#8217;t have any truly public calendars. Today I do, both at the <a href=\"http:\/\/deserthillspc.org\/\">church<\/a> and with some of the other organizations I&#8217;m part of. The only thing I used to want to share was my personal calendar, but I didn&#8217;t want to make that public, and my wife refused to get a gmail account. Anyway, that&#8217;s history, and now I see how wonderful Google Calendar is. My bad.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, now that I&#8217;m a late adopter, I want to point out something else I like about Google Calendar. Take a look at these two events. First, iCal:<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/befuddledsenses\/2808769473\/\" title=\"Calendar Detail (iCal) by Mess of Pottage, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3260\/2808769473_868fd612ed_o.png\" width=\"204\" height=\"160\" alt=\"Calendar Detail (iCal)\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Now compare that with Google Calendar:<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/befuddledsenses\/2808769447\/\" title=\"Calendar Detail (Google) by Mess of Pottage, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3012\/2808769447_076a04d534_o.png\" width=\"189\" height=\"144\" alt=\"Calendar Detail (Google)\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>You see the difference? In the month view, Google shows what time the event is. If iCal could do that it would be a <em>huge<\/em> win.<\/p>\n<p>Another thing I like about Google Calendar is the extra views: 4-day and Agenda.<\/p>\n<p>And, frankly, it isn&#8217;t any harder to edit an existing event in Google Calendar than it is in iCal. In fact, iCal has gotten <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2007\/10\/30\/ical\">harder to work with in Leopard<\/a>. Brilliant decision that was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a couple of 2-3 years since the last time I played with Google Calendar. At the time, I thought it was interesting, but not compelling enough to migrate away from iCal. (Or even go to the trouble to integrate it with iCal.) Today I played with it some more, and I liked it. 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