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Google Calendar Adds Colour-Coding To Individual Events

If you use Google Calendar, you probably use multiple calendars to colour-code your events for easy organisation. Now, Google’s rolling out a new feature that lets you colour-code individual events, instead of just entire calendars. That way, you can keep events in a specific category, but draw more attention to them with a specific colour.


April 14, 2011
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Google Calendar’s Favicon Now Displays Today’s Date

Whereas Google Calendar’s favicon — the tiny little icon at the top of your browser window — used to display a static 31, along with celebrating its 5th birthday its favicon now displays the actual day’s number. Not an enormous feature, but certainly a helpful and welcome one. [Gmail Blog]


February 12, 2011
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Minimalist For Google Calendar Tweaks Google Calendar To Your Liking

Chrome: We love tweaking Gmail to our liking with extensions like Minimalist Gmail, but if you’ve wanted to do the same to Google Calendar, Minimalist for Google Calendar will let you remove links, tweak buttons and change the colours of your Calendar.


January 28, 2011
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NudgeMail Adds Google Calendar Reminders To Email Re-Delivery Service

Nudgemail is the clever service that redelivers emails you send it as a reminder. Now it’s doubly helpful to send NudgeMail your follow-up-needed items, as it can add those emails to your Google Calendar.


January 26, 2011
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Add A Google Calendar Sidebar To Firefox With A User Script

Firefox with Greasemonkey: We’ve shown you one way to display your Google Calendar in Firefox’s sidebar, but it took a lot of work. Here’s a user script that makes it a three step process.


December 22, 2010
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Add Events To Google Calendar From Your Browser’s Address Bar

We’ve showed you how to search specific sites straight from the address bar using keywords, but it turns out that same feature can be used to actually add events to Google Calendar. Here’s how to do it.


December 8, 2010
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Google Calendar’s Event Time Zones Avoid Cross-Country Time Confusion

You’re in Perth, but the rest of the team are back in the office in Sydney. Rather than schedule an important meeting during your lunch, you can use Google Calendar’s new time zone support to ensure everybody knows the real start time.


November 30, 2010
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Google Calendar Now Indicates When A Meeting Is Optional

Google Calendar’s new Optional attendees feature lets meeting creators communicate how important your attendance is at a meeting in a couple of clicks.


November 13, 2010
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Google Releases Chrome Extensions For Calendar, Docs, YouTube

We’ve featured a few Chrome extensions for Google services before, but today Google released three official extensions. With them, you can view your Google Calendar, clip web pages to Google Docs, and view your YouTube feed right from Chrome’s navigation bar.


October 23, 2010
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How To Sync Calendar Colours Between Google Calendar, iOS

Most of us hook up our Google accounts with our iOS devices using Exchange, which pushes new mail to your iPhone. But if you sync Google Calendar using Exchange, your calendar colours don’t sync. Luckily they can, and there’s a simple solution.