In one of the Lifehacker screenshots Rooze had taken a cap of her calendar and used it for her desktop. A number of users wondered how they could do that, but get it to update continuously. I wanted to upload an example with Active Desktop. UPDATE: make sure you've signed in and cookied your session in Internet Explorer before you do this.
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srossi 91 months ago
cool. very informative. thanks.
rooze 91 months ago
Nice feature for Windows machines!
awhite 91 months ago
Yeah, not so easy with the Mac, but given the versatility of the platform, it must be possible. I'm sure the lazyweb could cobble together something with cron + html2jpg. Failing that Remind with Geektool definately does the job.
ginatrapani 91 months ago
I like this alot. Only problem I had was that my calendar isn't public, and so Active Desktop couldn't display it (you can't sign into a site using AD, apparently?) so I had to make it public, which isn't ideal... did I miss something? Is yours public Andrew?
awhite 91 months ago
Hi, Gina: you need to make sure that you've signed in and had Yahoo cookie your login through Internet Explorer (same thing with Exchange). Once you've done that, you shouldn't have any trouble.
I spent about a half an hour trying to add the thing to my desktop before I realised the step I'd missed!