Posts Tagged ‘Calendar’

Find Your Free Time – Google Calendar and Sync Can Help

Monday, March 29th, 2010

A busy week.  Those words will occupy a lot of thoughts and conversations today.  We pack so many activities and so much work into such little time.  When it is all done, we are left with a few precious minutes  for ourselves.  That “leftover” time is typically reserved for sleep, but if we are really lucky it will mean a moment with our favorite gadget, book, magazine, movie, etc.

The key to maximizing our schedules is organization and (ironically) it takes time to get organized.  For those of you in the “9 to 5″ crowd, you probably have access to Microsoft Outlook for managing your work hours but what about the rest of your life?  What about users who don’t have access to this email/calendar program (part of a $300 Microsoft Office package)?  Even if you had a wonderful program like Outlook, would you have the time/opportunity to get in front of a computer regularly throughout the day?

For anyone interested in using a calendar to keep track of events and schedules there is a solution that offers the flexibility of an electronic system and the mobility needed in our busy lives… Google Calendar and Google Sync.  They are both FREE and can help you find the time for what really matters, without wasting hours in setup.

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Real Mobile Syncing – Take Your Address Book and Searches Everywhere

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

Google has no doubt done some amazing things in the past decade.  I still remember making the switch to their search engine and wondering why I ever started at yahoo.com.  Wow!  Look at all the white space and nothing but that little search box and logo in the middle.  At the time, that was cutting edge and Google has managed to surprise me time and time again with their creative and different approaches to daily life and the internet.  Best of all, almost everything they release is FREE.

I did pay for one Google product and that was the G1 (Google Phone).  I was amazed at how simple it was to sync my contacts from Gmail with my address book on my phone.   The process took all of 10 seconds and I was up and running.  I had two thoughts immediately:

  1. WOW!!  What a cool thing to have on my phone.
  2. That really stinks for everyone else! (non-G1 owners)

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