Comments on: Stupid Google Tricks: Get a calendar from the search box

By: Bruce

Bruce — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:56:08 +0000

I love this stupid idea

By: Giovanni

Giovanni — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:26:09 +0000

Just an idea, ical for mac users.

By: Kennith Nichol

Kennith Nichol — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 04:15:16 +0000

My former hosting company has incorporated google applications into their service package. Simply sign up and meld the information with your hosting account and voila. I thought it was ridiculous. It looked like someone added spammy toys to my paid hosting.

This calendar application looks like one of those toys most people will play with for a while, then loose intrest, oh wait.. that’s just how people are.

By: brian cleveland

brian cleveland — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:20:07 +0000

I was just looking for a reminder system that I could access from anywhere. Nice, Thanks Matt and Google!

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:56:02 +0000

Opera allows you to define custom searches by right-clicking in the search box you want to add, and defining a short cut key: for example, I can search ‘whois example.com’ to perform a DomainTools whois of example.com, and ‘dic word’ to search for ‘word’ on dictionary.com: I’m sure it could be extended (in some ways) to the calendar.

By: adobe cs4 fans

adobe cs4 fans — Fri, 30 May 2008 01:26:19 +0000

google have many interest web tools.
but the speed always is just so so in china
such as web office.

By: David Swad

David Swad — Thu, 29 May 2008 18:01:30 +0000

Google has alot of cool tools, I think when i first started my seo work, I had aleast 1 google tool open in my browser, I was using google map and calendar on my soccer team website and it helped keep my team organized.

By: netmeg

netmeg — Tue, 27 May 2008 20:02:59 +0000

To be honest, not many people would benefit from a feature like this.

Actually, don’t sell yourself (or your idea) short; I think tonsS of people would benefit from it. There have been lots of times over the years I wanted to know what day of the week a date (past or future) fell on, and I’ve always had to fire up putty or some other terminal program and get it from my unix shell. Would love to have such a feature generally available in Google. Failing that, maybe I’ll try this.

By: David C

David C — Sun, 25 May 2008 16:55:30 +0000

If you use Firefox (and if you don’t, you should), you can just use a keyword for a bookmark for quick access.
http://lifehacker.com/software/bookmarks/power-up-firefox-with-keywords-248451.php

Plus you can use the %s operator in shortcuts to pass search terms. I’ve set up a ton of bookmarks this way, and use FoxMarks to sync them, and now I use the address bar as my command line. Cmd-T (new tab) or Cmd-L (reuse existing tab) and type my command.
http://lifehacker.com/software/bookmarks/hack-attack-firefox-and-the-art-of-keyword-bookmarking-196779.php

By: Shawn K. Hall

Shawn K. Hall — Sun, 25 May 2008 14:50:01 +0000

Seems like an awful lot of work just to get ‘faster access’ to a calendar. I just double-click on DQSD and it displays the current month, and I can tab through the months or years within the popup calendar. It also defaults to using Google as the native search engine (though it supports more than 400 others with a very simple command-line style syntax), so I don’t feel tied to any specific search engine, if Google doesn’t work out.

Check it out:
http://www.dqsd.net/