Google Calendar
The latest entrant from Google's mission to take over the essential software applications in my life is Google Calendar. 
For a corporate rats that spend 10+ hours at work each day, there's usually a fine line that separates the realm of 'office software applications' and 'personal software applications.' MS PowerPoint and company proprietary software tools fall squarely in the first category, while things like Quicken, Hotmail and Skype fall in the latter. There are a few apps with utility that spans both realms, such as email and calendar, that leaves me at a connumdrum -- how do I effectively use ONE application to take care of both my work and my personal life?
Google Calendar is one that lies squarely in that contested area. In essence, it takes the intuitive Google/Gmail interface, utility of integrating event management, and novel calendar sharing features into a really attractive package (you can read the details on what others thought). Nonetheless, without a strong, seamless integration with Outlook, I'll probably have to stick with Outlook for now; having to work with two calendar applications for different portions of my life is simply not an option.
Note: Google Calendar has an import feature that can take export file from Outlook (or from what I've heard, Yahoo and other calendars that allows you to export), but in this age of seamless integration, manual export-import just does not cut it for applications such as calendar that deal with such dynamic data.
For a corporate rats that spend 10+ hours at work each day, there's usually a fine line that separates the realm of 'office software applications' and 'personal software applications.' MS PowerPoint and company proprietary software tools fall squarely in the first category, while things like Quicken, Hotmail and Skype fall in the latter. There are a few apps with utility that spans both realms, such as email and calendar, that leaves me at a connumdrum -- how do I effectively use ONE application to take care of both my work and my personal life?
Google Calendar is one that lies squarely in that contested area. In essence, it takes the intuitive Google/Gmail interface, utility of integrating event management, and novel calendar sharing features into a really attractive package (you can read the details on what others thought). Nonetheless, without a strong, seamless integration with Outlook, I'll probably have to stick with Outlook for now; having to work with two calendar applications for different portions of my life is simply not an option.
Note: Google Calendar has an import feature that can take export file from Outlook (or from what I've heard, Yahoo and other calendars that allows you to export), but in this age of seamless integration, manual export-import just does not cut it for applications such as calendar that deal with such dynamic data.
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