Did you know that you can get an easy to digest version of your google calendar via RSS?
Whilst this won’t be useful to too many people, if, like me, you have web access on your mobile phone but you’re not lucky enough to have a “proper” web browsing phone like an Iphone (Damn you two year contract with Three Mobile!), a quick check of your calendar in the text-only format that RSS gives us at least lets me keep on top of what’s coming up.
First - let’s have a look at how to enable the RSS function in the Google Calendar settings:
Whilst having the Google Calendar open in your browser, look down the left haNd side of the window, for the “My Calendars section. Just under this part you’ll see a link that says “Manage Calendars”, click that link.
Click the link that says "Manage Calendars"
Once clicked, that link will take you to another page which allows you to mess with your calendar settings. On this page, we’re looking to make sure that correct tab is chosen in the “Calendar Settings” (1) section, then we click the link with the name of our calendar(2)
Choose the "Calendars" tab then click the link to your calendar
Now go back to the “Calendar Details” tab, and click it, then scroll down the page, and find the little XML icon for the Private Address, and click it:
Make sure you're using the "Private Address" and click the XML icon
You will be given a private address (URL) to the feed of your calendar. Copy and paste this address into your feed reader, and you now have access to your calendar entries on the run!
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