Google Calendar

Google Calendar is a free time-management web application offered by Google. It became available on April 13, 2006, and exited the beta stage in July 2009. While users are not required to have a Gmail account, they are required to have a free Google Account in order to use the software.

7 reasons to use Google Calendar

Organizing your schedule shouldn't be a burden. With Google Calendar, it's easy to keep track of life's important events all in one place.

1. Share your schedule

Let your co-workers, family, and friends see your calendar, and view schedules that others have shared with you. When you know when everyone is free or busy, scheduling is a snap.

2. Get your calendar on the go

With two-way syncing to your mobile phone's built-in calendar or a mobile version of Google Calendar that's made for the small screen, you can access your calendar while you're away from your desk.

3. Never forget another event again

Customizable reminders help you stay on schedule. You can choose to be notified by email or get a text message sent right to your mobile phone.

4. Send invitations and track RSVPs

Invite the people to events on your calendar. Guests can RSVP to your events by email or via Google Calendar.

5. Sync with your desktop applications

Access your calendar however and whenever you want by syncing events with Microsoft, Microsoft Outlook, Apple iCal and Mozilla Sunbird.

6. Work offline

Know where you're supposed to be even when you don't have internet access. With offline access, you can view a read-only version of your calendar no matter where you are.

7. All this is free?

Yep.

In addition to offline access to Gmail while you're traveling or without a strong internet connection, you can now see your Google Calendar events when you're disconnected. Offline Calendar lets you view your existing schedule and events, but not edit them, so you don't have to print out calendars the night before a trip. This feature has been available to businesses and schools using Google Apps for about a month; we're now turning it on for everyone.

Like Gmail, the offline feature of Calendar uses Gears, an open source browser extension that adds offline functionality directly to the browser.

To enable offline Calendar access, sign in to Google Calender and look for the "Offline Beta" link in the upper right-hand corner of your account, next to your user name. We've released this early and are still ironing out some kinks, so if you encounter any issues, be sure to let us know. If you access Calendar through the Premier or Education Editions of Google Apps, your domain administrator will first have to elect to turn on new features from the Domain Settings page of the Google Apps control panel.

There are multiple ways to see your calendar when you're away from your desk — in addition to offline mode, we offer two-way sync for iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile and Blackberry devices. So wherever you go, Google Calendar can be there with you.

Social network service

A social network service focuses on building online communities of people who share interests and/or activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others. Most social network services are web based and provide a variety of ways for users to interact, such as e-mail and instant messaging services.

Social networking has encouraged new ways to communicate and share information. Social networking websites are being used regularly by millions of people.

While it could be said that email and websites have most of the essential elements of social network services, the idea of proprietary encapsulated services has gained popular uptake recently.

The main types of social networking services are those which contain category divisions (such as former school-year or classmates), means to connect with friends (usually with self-description pages) and a recommendation system linked to trust. Popular methods now combine many of these, with Facebook widely used worldwide; MySpace, Twitter and LinkedIn being the most widely used in North America; Nexopia (mostly in Canada); Bebo, Hi5, StudiVZ (mostly in Germany), Decayenne, Tagged, XING;, Badoo and Skyrock in parts of Europe; Orkut and Hi5 in South America and Central America;and Friendster, Mixi, Multiply, Orkut, Wretch, Xiaonei and Cyworld in Asia and the Pacific Islands.

There have been some attempts to standardize these services to avoid the need to duplicate entries of friends and interests (see the FOAF standard and the Open source Inititative, but this has led to some concerns about privacy.

News 5

Sony slashes PS3 price to $299, announces new Slim model

by Ben Silverman

The PlayStation Slim

Sony might not be able to keep a secret, but they can sure make an announcement.

After months of rumors and speculation, the company finally made official news of a brand new version of its PlayStation 3 console during a game convention in Germany on Tuesday. Called the "PlayStation Slim," the new system is due to release in North America and Europe on September 1 for $299 and €299, respectively. The price cut is immediate, however, meaning the soon-to-be-replaced 80 GB PlayStation 3 currently on store shelves is now only $299 as well.

Touting the same features and functionality of the current console, the Slim is true to its name, coming in at 33% smaller and 36% lighter. It's also greener, using 34% less power. But while its chassis has shrunk, its trunk space has grown with a new 120 GB hard drive. Who doesn't like roomy interiors? Check out these hi-res shots and see for yourself.

Sony hopes the long-awaited price drop will stimulate sales for its ailing system, which typically trails both the Nintendo Wii and the Xbox 360 (and occasionally Sony's own PlayStation 2) in monthly sales. The new price point at least closes that gap financially; $299 is on par with the standard model Xbox 360 and is only $50 more expensive than the Nintendo Wii.

The announcement could not come at a more fortuitous time, as the video game industry suffered another month of declining sales in July. Overall, the industry is down roughly 14% since last year.

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News 4

Are you allergic to WiFi? Steve Miller is E-mail
by Davey Winder
Saturday, 25 July 2009
Steve Miller is not agoraphobic and has not got Swine Flu. So why is he under virtual house arrest? The answer, strangely enough, is because he's allergic to WiFi. No, really.
Although not widely publicised, nor understood by many in the medical profession, Electrical Hypersensitivity (ES) is said to cause symptoms including sleep disturbance, headaches, concentration problems, limb and joint pains, impaired balance and hearing loss. Steve Miller knows all about it, because he has the thing and it is keeping him trapped inside the 18 inch thick granite walls of his remote detached house near Falmouth in Cornwall, UK. When he ventures out he feels sick, dizzy, confused and suffers from agonising headaches.

A trip down the local high street is a nightmare, and most pubs are out of bounds for Steve. As are, for that matter, airports and hotels. He can no longer travel by train because of the pain and suffering his condition causes.

And it's all caused by WiFi.

According to the ES support group there has been much media speculation, but also a lot of research, into the ill-health effects caused by "a number of modern wireless communication conveniences" including mobile phones and base stations, DECT cordless phones and, of course, WiFi.

Steve told The Sun newspaper that he feels "like an exile on my own planet" claiming that it is "almost impossible to find somewhere without wi-fi nowadays".

He says that he has to travel three miles to find a pub without WiFi if he fancies a pint, and even had to move house as being within 50 yards of any other houses leaves him open to being infected by their WiFi signals.

Apparently Steve is not alone, and some two percent of the UK population suffer from the effects of Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity. With cars being equipped as rolling WiFi hotspots there could soon be no escape for sufferers.

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