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Unit 7: Cloud Services Uses

using the web, mobile devices, Outlook and CalDAV (iCal and Mozilla Sunbird). It can also be Notes
accessed on the web even offline and with many programs and devices.

Did u know? According to its website, Google’s mission is to organize the world’s
information and “make it universally accessible and useful.
In Google Calendar, you can pick a time with the mouse to add an appointment or use the slick
“Quick Add” field that understands some “natural” language for example “dinner at Ravi’s
house tomorrow at 7pm”. Repetition options are flexible. If you use Gmail, you can turn emails
into events easily.

Notes In January 2003, the American Dialect Society voted the word “Google” as the
“most useful” Word of the Year for 2002.

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Caution If you just want to get your Outlook calendar into Gmail and then stop using
Outlook, Google recommends using Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Outlook
tool instead.

Yahoo! Calendar

Yahoo! Calendar is a Web-based calendar service from Yahoo!. It can read calendar feeds and
events collected from sites that make use of the published Yahoo! calendar programming
interfaces. While users are not required to have a Yahoo! Mail account, they are required to have
a Yahoo! ID in order to use the software.
One of Google Calendar’s primary competitors is Yahoo! Calendar. Hosted by its search
competitor Yahoo! This Web-based calendar free for anyone to use.
Yahoo! Calendar allows you to edit and access events on your calendar from anywhere with a
browser and Internet access. It offers public and private event scheduling, to-do lists, weather,
and integration with Microsoft Outlook and Palm devices.
Yahoo! Calendar also has the following features:

It is a 100 year calendar
It has various alarm features which allow you to send messages to numerous sources
including:

email
mobile devices
Yahoo! Messenger
It allows sharing of schedules between users. The mechanism allows several different
methods of sharing including publicly sharing your calendar, sharing your calendar with
a specific Yahoo! Group, and sharing your calendar with a particular Yahoo! user.
With Yahoo! Calendar events are stored online, so in the case of a user’s hard drive failure, no
data is lost. Calendar sharing is also available. Yahoo! Calendar has an Add Task button. This
reflects Yahoo! Calendar’s offering of tasks in addition to events. You can still add items to your

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