Active Desktop + Web Calendars

This desktop item shows the latest version of Outlook Webmail showing my calendar. Not ideal, since it requires a lot of screen space. (its partially hidden behind Yahoo.)

This is the print view of Yahoo Calendar. I think this works best. The calendar is updated on your synchronise schedule (or manually by clicking "synchronize" in your desktop settings.

Active Desktop + Web Calendars by awhite.

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 says:

cool. very informative. thanks.
Posted 48 months ago. ( permalink )

rooze says:

Nice feature for Windows machines!
Posted 48 months ago. ( permalink )

awhite says:

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.
Posted 48 months ago. ( permalink )

ginatrapani says:

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?
Posted 48 months ago. ( permalink )

awhite says:

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!
Posted 48 months ago. ( permalink )

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