If you are using Google Calendar to keep track of things, you’d probably notice that you only get notifications on your desktop computer if you are on that computer and have the Google Calendar page open. That’s fine if you are working on your desktop most of the time, but won’t do you any good [...]

Categories: Google

Both the Thunderbird desktop email client and the Lightning calendar add-on have been recently updated. Using Lightning is not the only way of integrating Google Calendar in Thunderbird. In 2010 I reviewed the Thunderbird add-on Google Calendar Tab which integrates the service into Thunderbird by opening the Google Calendar web page in the email client. [...]

Categories: Email

One of the main points of criticism in regards to the email client Thunderbird was the missing calendar. While it was possible to install an early version of Lightning in previous versions of the email program, it was not really on-pair with the calendar in Outlook or Google Calendar. With the release of Thunderbird 8 [...]

Categories: Email

Hypothetically, what would you say if Microsoft would enable an offline mode for Hotmail or Office Live 365 but only for Internet Explorer? Chance is, a lot of users would cry foul play and demand that Microsoft would enable support for other web browsers as well. If you look at Google these days, you might [...]

Categories: Google, Google Chrome

With all of this talk about KDE 4.5 lately, I thought I should take a moment to mention a tool that hasn’t had much (or any) talk here on Ghacks. That tool is Kontact. But what is Kontact?  Kontact is the KDE groupware suite that includes more tools than your standard suite, has a lot [...]

Categories: Advice, Desktop Manager, Email, Google, Linux, Open Source, Software, Windows

As we continue on with our travels down the Xfce path, I thought it would be smart to highlight the Xfce calendaring application Orage. This tool is not an “all in one” tool like Evolution, nor does it have all of the bells and whistles of the Mozilla Sunbird calendar. But what it does, it [...]

Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

Google Calendar is a calendar application that is integrated into several other Google services like Gmail. A labs section is provided by for Google Calendar users that provides access to experimental features. The Google Calendar features can easily be activated in the labs section and Google just announced the addition of three new Calendar Labs [...]

Categories: Google, The Web

If you are a Gmail user chance is that you are also subscribed to other Google services such as Google Calendar. We all know that Thunderbird users can integrate Gmail into the desktop email client to archive messages, access them while they are offline and manage the account almost as if they would use the [...]

Categories: Email

Google Calendar is an online calendar that can be used to keep track of events and important dates. The calendar application can be integrated into various Google services including Gmail which is probably the main reason for its popularity. Up until now it was only possible to add events manually to Google Calendar. Google yesterday [...]

Categories: Google