I started using the new google calendar on the first day that it was available. I felt a bit guilty when signing up because it looks like google basically made their own version of 30boxes. Google is becoming so large that I worry about letting them handle an increasing portion of my computer life (now at gmail, desktop search, and calendar). But, what got me on google calendar instead of 30boxes was the gmail integration. Gmail has quickly become my default email client when I’m not at home (love the keyboard shortcuts!). And really this new calendar has some nice features, like the public calendars and automatic email invitations.
I’ve been searching for a good calendar software for quite a while. I realize that Outlook is the usual choice for windows users, but I don’t use Outlook for email (bloated and susceptible to too many security threats), so I wasn’t going to start using it just for the calendar feature. Thunderbird is my default email client at home, so I took a look at the Lightning Project, but it looks too “alpha” to trust my data to. The Chandler project also looks like it will be worth a look when they get further along. In the meantime, I’m letting myself get further sucked into the googleverse.