Google Apps Hacks

165  - ACCESS YOUR CALENDAR FROM A MOBILE PHONE

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If you never want to miss another appointment, consider

subscribing to SMS alerts for appointments, or using Google

Calendar’s mobile version.

If you’ve never missed a meeting before, consider yourself lucky—or very gifted. Maybe it’s enough

to just check your calendar every few days. For the rest of us, these alerts are one way—in addition

to email alerts—to be reminded of an upcoming event. And if you want to peek at your calendar on

the go, you can access a light version of Google Calendar on your cell phone.

Check your cell phone bill to determine how many messages you have each month: some cellular carriers

charge for incoming as well as outgoing SMS; it can get expensive if you go over your limit.

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To set up your SMS alerts, log in to your calendar and click the Settings link on top. Switch to the

Mobile Setup tab, as shown in Figure 7-3, input your country and phone number, and check whether

your carrier is supported. For example, at the time of this writing, over 30 different carriers in the

U.S. are supported; from Alaska Communications Systems to Western Wireless.

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Adding an event

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