Google Calendar
Google now offers a calendar service, Google Calendar, which can be accessed
using
http://www.google.com/calendar or
calendar.google.com. You can schedule events on a calendar, mark them
as public, and then have Google Calendar notify guests of the events.
Some may use this service as an alternative to Microsoft Outlook's calendaring
feature. It certainly would make sharing a calendar easier, if you need to
share a calendar with others outside your office or with non-Outlook users.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Google has also recently
negotiated a deal with Dell where Google will pay Dell
up to a billion dollars to preinstall Google Desktop on Dell PCs.
References:
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Google and Dell in $1 billion Microsoft busting deal
By Stan Beer
Friday, 26 May 2006
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iRows and Opera
I've been using
iRows, which is a free
online service for creating and storing spreadsheets, to store some
spreadsheets so that I can access the information from any system with
a web browser. However, I've found that, though the service works fine
with Firefox, it is not usable with Opera 8.54. With Opera 8.54, when you try to
save a spreadsheet, edit tags, etc. windows open behind the spreadsheet
you are working on and it isn't possible to fully access them. I've been
able to drag some of the windows to areas on the screen where I can access
part of them, but I would not consider the service usable with Opera.
When I checked the FAQ
at the iRows website, I found a statement indicating that iRows doesn't
work well with the beta 9 version of Opera either. The FAQ states
"On Opera-9 not all features work well. We are waiting for Opera to fix a few
issues in the beta version."
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