Here’s a potentially useful tip - yes, I know they’ve become a mighty rare thing on this blog lately - on how to put your Google calendar into your sidebar.
Since I’ve been using Gmail for all my email needs (that’s something else I keep meaning to write a post about) and Bloglines for reading feeds, I do a whole plethora of things with online aps in my browser rather than having yet more applications open and, because they are portable. Google calendar being just another of the many, but I was happy enough to open it fully (using the link at the top of the Gmail screen) when I needed it.
The idea came from a comment on this post, GmailAgenda Puts GCal in Your Gmail (which is something I’d consider, if it gets incorporated into Better Gmail, which I already use), but this, I think, suits my purpose better anyway.
Firefox Facts had posted on this, but as they say, that no longer works, though it does explain the method to you. This post on Google Sidebars has a link that works ( Google Calendar ), so just drag that to your bookmarks toolbar and check the box that says, "Load this bookmark in sidebar".
The other advantage to this method is being able to place the calendar alongside any page on the web and, since a lot of my use is for inputting events in Tenerife (that I may later blog about), from a variety of online sources, this will save me a lot of time previously spent switching tabs.
