With my podcast and MacUser blogging, my life has become pretty busy, which is why I decided that I needed a calendar. So, I had two options. One was to go with Apple’s included iCal software, which works pretty well and is a good choice. But the other one was even better. Google Calendar had just been unveiled, and a lot of people are choosing it over iCal. So, I decided to pick gCal. gCal is GREAT. It has a Quick Add button so that you can schedule dates as if you were talking to a normal person, for example, saying “Dinner with Mom at 7pm Sunday” would create a date titled “Dinner with Mom” that would occur at 7:00 PM, April 22, 2006. And, it can even do date ranges, so I can say “half hour Dinner with Mom 7pm Sunday” and it would make an event titled “Dinner with Mom” that would occur from 7:00 PM to 7:30 PM, April 22, 2006. Another awesome feature of gCal is that gCal has a huge calendar database. For example, I have a movie release date calendar, a Jewish Calendar, Candle Lighting times, and the weekly parsha (Torah portion). There is some room for improvement with gCal though. For one thing, Google needs to make a mobile version of it like it has for GMail and the Personalized Google Homepage. Also, you can sync Google Calendar with other programs that support the iCal standard, but you can only write to your calendar on one of the programs, while the other is read-only (for example, I can either make my dates on gCal and read them in iCal, or make the dates in iCal, but read it in gCal). Still, Google Calendar is a great program and really worth using.
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Aaron Freedman is a 16 year old who's very passionate and knowledgeable about technology and journalism. He enjoys working on his two main projects, 
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