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Google Calendar Beta: A Hot Date The beta release of Google Calendar offers a lot of interesting features, but may have been premature. By Barbara Krasnoff InformationWeek Apr 17, 2006 04:46 PM

Article:http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=185303316

Wow, as soon this new google calendar is open for public use, there are articles picking it apart.

This article states that google calendar has too many gliches in it and said something like "maybe they jumped on it too soon". besides the short paragraph about the trouble the author had with google calendar on his own computer, the article praises google calendar and reveals many new oporations that i didnt know by using it just a few minutes ago.

the calendar is a very easy to use set up with many different option to occomodate different preferences and needs. this could be used by anyone. i plan to update mine as i do my dayplanner.

one of the neat things that the author of the article mentioned is that google can send you reminders about events you scheduled by means of email or a pop-up. this is also why the author was having so much trouble with his calendar. you must disable the pop-up blocker in order to receive reminders this way... it makes perfect sense. the author makes it seem as though the product is useless if you must disable the pop-up blocker. i think that it is totally fine. I you want a pop-up then disable your pop-up blocker dumbass.

i have enjoyed using the new google calendar and hope to enjoy all the cool features like sharing calendars, changing the layout and colors, adding and editing multiple events, and creating and managing more than one calendar all for free.