xp application for Google Calendar and Contacts

[jefboyardee]

I Googled for an XP standalone program that shows and edits Google Calendar and Contacts. There

 

[woodsb123]

Not sure what your reasoning is for wanting/needing a stand alone program for showing/editing the google calendar & contacts, but, I'm just using the website/browser version of these apps. The good thing about this is that you can log onto any computer with any browser and make changes to both apps and then your updates are automatically synced to your android devices. Works for me!!!!!

 

[dvhttn]

A 'search' on these forums will bring up lots of threads from ex-Palm users wanting the same sort of functionality they had with that platform. That'd be my first port of call for answers, or at least a direction to go in.

Can't help with the Google editing as I use Outlook on my PC and sync to that (locally using MyPhoneExplorer) but Outlook does have the ability to sync with Google (or the other way around ....) so that may be worth looking at.

Dave

 

[SkyJackpot]

You can export all of your Google Contacts into "Outlook CSV" format and edit them in Microsoft Excel or any text editor which handles Comma Seperated Values.

You can also export your Google Calendar to. ICS format and the Import Wizard in Microsoft Excel will convert the data for you to edit.

 

[jefboyardee]

Not sure what your reasoning is for wanting/needing a stand alone program for showing/editing the google calendar & contacts

As I said...

In addition to trying to sidestep what Google has up its sleeve for IE8 users, I think I

 

[jefboyardee]

Good news. I Installed:

Active Organizer is an easy-to-use client for Google Calendar and Contacts which lets you work with your Google Apps directly from your Desktop.

Bad news. I Wrote:

Installed the ten-day trial. Loved it. Went to buy it. I expected an Android-ish price, like two bucks. Maybe even five. But twenty-five? Forget it.

Just what I was looking for, but ain’t worth nearly that much.

 

[jefboyardee]

I’ve bumped into something very handy – although it obviously can’t sync when the XP is offline, it still displays the most recent sync. That was the browser part I hated – if I was offline, no calendar, no contacts, since they’re just web pages.

And now that I’ve read up on the closest alternatives, this one seems to be the cheapest. I might end up deciding to shell out after all...

 

[jefboyardee]

Never mind, Too half-baked to pay that much. Uninstalled.

 

[Ze Veteran]

Is a portable version of Chrome or Firefox not possible/acceptable?

 

[jefboyardee]

In case anyone is actually interested, there’s also TrayOS, which tries to put everything Google in its own window, but on my PC, fails miserably.

 

[chanchan05]

I actually just sync Outlook to Google and voila, an offline program.

 

[jefboyardee]

On some MS help page, I found someone who supplied his IE9 version numbers:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer
in the registry and change any version key contents to (90811) 9.0.8112.16421
(That's the version of my IE9 on my win7 pc.)
If there is a version key located here:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\..\Internet Explorer\version vector\
Change the version to 9.0000

I tried it, but it doesn’t remove the nag, so there’s probably another version tweak somewhere...

 

[psionandy]

As I said...



Just got used to having it aside from the browser, although it works either way... depending on what