{"id":332,"date":"2007-07-12T00:06:39","date_gmt":"2007-07-12T04:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=332"},"modified":"2011-09-30T08:12:48","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T13:12:48","slug":"sunbird-vs-google-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=332","title":{"rendered":"Sunbird vs Google Calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"

I really like Sunbird as an application and have been using it for over a year now. Unfortunately, it wasn’t a trouble-free year. The 0.29 version of the program made it very easy for me to accidentally overwrite my entire calendar with just the latest-entered event (technically user error, but it was definitely an enabler in that process). Then I had a bunch of problems with the server I was uploading my calendar to so I could sync up wherever I was. Not exactly Sunbird’s fault either, but the whole point of getting away from my desk calendar was so that I could check it wherever I was. For a while, it was pretty good living with the site (www.icalx.com): they provided free hosting for my calendar with no advertising, and it was running well for about a year, even including perks like letting non-Sunbird (or ical compatible) users view a HTML version of my public calendar. Pretty good considering it’s really tough to find a server that will take money to sync your calendar, let alone a free one. It’s been over two months and I still can’t use Sunbird with it. The site itself is still working — I can log in and check my account, but I can’t upload or download calendars, which makes the whole exercise rather pointless.<\/p>\n

I’ve switched over to Google Calendar<\/a> now. I remember trying it a year or more ago before I settled on Sunbird, and wasn’t happy with it. What, exactly, I found displeasing I can no longer say: it’s a pretty full-featured calendar. Just about the only option lacking is a way to classify your events. There are a few other minor shortcomings, of course: it’s slightly slower than Sunbird because it’s not local: adding entries, etc, requires getting info from the server so there’ s a bit of latency. Fortunately, Google’s servers are pretty fast. And, since it’s entirely web-based, I don’t need to install it on every computer I might want to check my calendar on, just log in and go. It might even save a spot on my taskbar since I always have an open webbrowser anyway, but don’t always have (or need to have) Sunbird open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I really like Sunbird as an application and have been using it for over a year now. Unfortunately, it wasn’t a trouble-free year. The 0.29 version of the program made it very easy for me to accidentally overwrite my entire calendar with just the latest-entered event (technically user error, but it was definitely an enabler […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}