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This is the second time this has happened to me and I don’t really know what it is. Powering on the computer this morning I noticed neither Gmail Notifier nor Snitter (my twitter application) could connect to the Internet. Actually they still can’t.

gmail.com doesn’t seem to want to load which would explain Gmail Notifier and twitter.com doesn’t either which would then explain Snitter. But the weird thing is, Facebook doesn’t load either, and WordPress took one minute to load my Dashboard and another minute to load this “write post” page. Yet at the same time Google Reader is up and running while Google Calendar is down.

Like I mentioned above this has happened to me before, whenever Gmail didn’t work so didn’t Facebook and other large social/popular websites.

I’m finding this very frustrating and annoying actually. Half the websites I would normally visit in the morning are all down for unknown reasons.

If somebody knows the reason(s) behind all this I would love to hear it. Now I just hope I can post this blog

Thanks,

Marat

Today sitting here bored and trying to find things to do I decided to see if there was a way I could use my Facebook’s contacts birthdays in my personal calendar (on this occasion my Google Calendar).

A simple search on Google linked me to a website fbCal.com. fbCal is a Facebook application which generates and hosts an iCal Calendar for you on their servers. From there all you have to do is copy the link to your newly generated calendar and add it to your favourite calendar application.

Two seconds later you have a complete calendar with all your Facebook’s contacts birthdays. It’s as simple as that.

Thanks,

Marat

If you read my blog regurly you would know that I love both Google Calendar and CAT (Calendar for TV). And two days ago I found a way to join them together to make one super dooper mega cool all in one ultimate calendar (like that name? ).

Well the truth is, I’ve always used my Google Calendar for personal use, work & uni but had to rely on CAT and their website for all my TV show schedules. But now you can, at home, by yourself, using only the tools in your shed (shed needed) make them work together

And to tell you the truth it’s quite simple.
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If you use Google Calendar like me and want to have it visible on your desktop then you’re not alone.

I have searched far and wide for an application that would display my Google Calendar on my Windows desktop. I had hoped that Google would wake up and realise that many people want to view their Google Calendar from the comfort of their desktops without having to always open up their Internet browser (get Firefox) and load Google Calendar.

Well a few months ago I had found the solution to all our problems. The program is called Active Desktop Calendar (ADC). Truthfully this is one of the biggest desktop calendar programs available on the market today, but what makes ADC even better is the fact that they have Google Calendar support.

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