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Google launched their Google Calendar application a few days ago, and I think it blows all the other online calendars out there away. I particularly like that ability to share and subscribe to calendars in the iCal format, the same one used by Apple’s iCal and Mozilla Sunbird. Google Calendar can also share data via RSS.

Google Calendar

It looks great. It’s got the same slick interface as Gmail, and I like the ability to create and color-code different types of calendars. I currently have one for my regular day-to-day schedule, one for birthdays (can’t forget those), and one for special one-time events. You can also add holiday information, and search for any iCal .ics files on the internet and subscribe to them as a remote calendar.

Google Calendar search

Another cool feature I haven’t tried out yet, is the ability to send event reminders to your cell phone via SMS text messages. You can also have Google Calendar send you a daily agenda via email or SMS. Luckily I’m not busy enough yet to need something like that.

I’ve run into a few glitches. Sometimes when you update the calendar with new information, or subscribe to a remote calendar, it will take a few minutes for your Google Calendar to update. Occasionally when you subscribe to a non-Google remote calendar it will balk at you, and you just have to try again. I’ve heard some people say that Google Calendar won’t work with Apple’s Safari web browser, but I don’t own a mac, and I have no way to test it.

Google Calendar share

For a long time, I’ve been using Rainlendar to keep track of my schedule. Now that Google has finally released their long-anticipated calendar, I can finally access my schedule both at home and at work. My only gripe is that there is no desktop client. I like having my schedule on my desktop without having to open my web browser. Hopefully with Google Calendar’s remote iCal and RSS access somebody will make a Yahoo Konfabulator Widget or something. Now that Google has a calendar, they just need to add a to-do list and combine it all together with Gmail to create some online competition to Microsoft Outlook.