Just to geek out for a moment, the Quick Add for Google Calendar add-in for Firefox is nifty. Hit a hotkey from anywhere in Firefox, enter some freeform text in a pop-up box — like “media interview tomorrow at 12:20″ — and your Google Calendar is instantly populated in the background with the right event, time, and place.
No muss, no fuss, no ugly forms, and no context switch to a calendaring app required. Nice.
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As an unrelated aside, I’m trying out Microsoft’s Windows Live Writer for content creation/editing here. I usually use Scribefire, but it has some irritating bugs, and isn’t being updated much anymore. I’m liking Live Writer more than I expected.
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I use Windows Live Writer too. It is excellent, though I had to hack it in order to install it on my 64 bit windows machine. Silly.
I’d switch to online calendaring and contacts but no way exists to sync them with my Blackberry….
Andrew — Have you looked at gcalsync? It’s a little rough, but it works for syncing BBerry to GCal.
Shameless plug….
If you’re an IM user, either on the desktop or mobile device, you can do the same thing with IMified. Add our bot to your contact list in AIM, MSN, or Google Talk, and you can add calendar entries wherever you are.
You can also post to your blog, update Twitter, etc using the service — http://imified.com/