Chris Drumgoole

I was checking my RSS feeds today, and one of the Official Google feeds that I subscribe to had a posting about the new Google Calendar Sync tool!

Sure enough, then I accessed my Google Calendar, I found this nice link at the top:

I always wanted to use Google Calendar, but I;ve been kind of stuck using my work Outlook Calendar to manage my life as I have my phone syncing to it, and it worked quite well, but I was missing the online aspect.

Downloading the tool and running it, the initial screen looks like this:

The initial sync took a while as I have a lot of calendar data in Outlook.

Thanks, Google!

Google’s new mobile client for Google Maps, Google Maps Mobile, is pretty sweet. It’s now native on the S60v3 devices (whcih my N95 has).  It also has a pretty neat feature called “My Location”.  Now, with the N95’s internal GPS turned on, it will show you pretty darnd acurately where you are on the map (or satellite image).

If you don’t have GPS (or turn it off), then it will, using the cell towers, give you a chabuduo (translate: close-enough) location.  While at work, I did a quick test:

The image on the left is a zoom-out, the image on the right is a zoom-in.  The dot in the center is where it thinks I am; but in reality, I’m at the 6-o’clock position at the bottom of the blue-tinted circle.  So, that’s probably somewhere around a half kilometer off.

Oh well.  Close enough, eh?