Google Calendar

Okay so this is not anything particularly new I know. But if you have never heard of Google calendar, prepare to be amazed.
I don't claim to be an expert by any means in online applications and facilities, but this is by far the best I have seen.

Gcal is a simple and effective device for managing your time. It basic terms, you input the dates and times of your events, and it displays them on a calendar so you know what is going on an when. The really impressive stuff starts when you looks deeper, Gcal can text you to remind you of any event, simply register your phone, (which is free and instant), then whenever you set a reminder, select SMS as the option and you will receive a text with the date, time, location and any description of the event - what more could you need for an organised life!?


Believe it or not, there is more. Gcal supports multiple calendars as well, so you can have (as I do), a calendar for personal events, University timetable, exercise schedule, or even a bills calendar so you know what is coming out when! Events can also be set to reccuring so there is no need to set the same lecture every week, just the once.

Whats more, Gcal offers an option to embed your calendar into your website, or just send a link to someone else to view your calendar. And my most recent discovery is that the description section of Gcal will accept HTML code, so you can hyperlink, or even embed things into the description!

Gcal is extremley easy to use as well, to extend the time of an event, just click and drag the end time. If you type (for example), Dinner at Uni in the event title box, it will set the event title as dinner, and the location as Uni.

See below for my calendar, if you want you own you need to go to www.google.com/calendar. While your there, why not sign up for a Gmail account as well? In my opinion, google are offering excellent services at no cost to us as a consumer, these will get better with the number of people that sign up, more advertising exposure, more revenue for google! So sign up now!