Easy Cool Calendar
E-mail and SMS notification
May 19th
The Easy Cool Calendar gadget, if connected to Google Calendar, let you now configure e-mail or SMS reminder delay.
For the SMS reminder, open your Google Calendar settings, then in the “Mobile setup” tab, type of cellphone number. Read more.
When you create or modify an event, just enter the delay (in minutes) for one or both reminder methods.
If you uncheck the option, both fields will be empty and, in that case, you won’t receive the reminder. If you check the option, the default values will be set.
You can set these default values in the options 
of the gadget.
New time picker
Feb 12th
The Easy Cool Calendar gadget get a new time picker, easy to use and which allows you to select time more precisely.
It’s displayed whenever you click inside the field or on the icon. Click then on the hour and minutes you wish.
You can also type the type directly or modify the time you selected.
Recurrence options of events
Feb 4th
In the Easy Cool Calendar, recurrence rules of the events are richer now. Here are some examples of what you can define:
- This event occurs 8 times every other day:
- This event occurs every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, every 2 weeks, indefinitely:
- This event occurs every last Monday of the month, until February 9th, 2013:
- This event occurs every February 9th, indefinitely:
Week numbers
Jan 8th
In Easy Cool Calendar, you can choose your week numbering standard:
- Hide: week numbers are not displayed in the calendar.
- Europe (ISO8601): in the international week numbering standard (used in european countries), weeks start on Monday and week 1 of the year is the one that includes the first Thursday of that year (so week 1 is the week that includes 4 January).
- USA/Canada: in the North American standard weeks start on Sunday and week 1 starts with the first Sunday.
Multiple Google calendars
Aug 25th
Google Calendar allows you to manage several calendars simultaneously, setting a specific name and color to each one..
The Easy Cool Calendar is now able to manage those multiple calendars. In the options of the gadget, select the display level:
- « My main calendar »: your main calendar only, the one that is your only calendar at this time
- « My own calendars »: all the calendars that you created
- « All calendars »: all the calendars that include the ones that you have subscribed to (for example holidays, week numbers or friends’ calendars). Depending on the number of calendars and events, this option may slow the display of the gagdet.
Calendars are retrieved and displayed with the color that you set in Google Calendar.
When you create an event in the gadget, you can choose the calendar to which it is related (your main calendar is selected by default). When you edit an event, the calendar cannot be modified.
Encoding issues: fixed
Jul 8th
The encoding issues seen in the gadgets Easy Cool Calendar and Easy Contacts Manager have finally been fixed by Google. Champagne! :-)
Sorry for the annoyances and thanks for your patience.
Encoding issues
Jul 1st
Since some weeks, un bug from Google stops accentuated characters from being correctly rendered.
After several reminders, the Google team answered:
Comment 20 by api.nicolas, Yesterday (26 hours ago)
Hey efattal,
So the code has been fixed but both products (Calendar and Contacts) have different release cycle for their servers. Contacts have already updated their server to a new version. This fix should be applied to Calendar API servers early next week.
Cheer!
So thanks fro your patience, the issue will be fixed soon.
Google Calendar bug
Jun 3rd
A persistent and random bug from Google’s service can sometimes stop the Easy Cool Calendar gadget from working normally when connected to Google Calendar. In that case, your events are NOT lost and you can retrieve them in Google Calendar.
To fix this issue, you need to delete a Google Calendar cookie that causes the problem. Please follow this procedure:
- Delete the cookie that cause the issue and for that :
- Simplified procedure: you delete all cookies of the browser:
- Type CTRL+SHIFT+DEL on your keyboard.
- In the popup window, verify that the checkbox related to Cookies is checked soit cochée. Other checkbox can be checked or unchecked at your convenience.
- Click the Delete button.
- NB. If you want, you can delete only cookies from *.google.* domain.
- Advanced procedure: you delete only the problematic cookie:
- Open the list of cookies of the browser:
- For Firefox : Tools » Options » Privacy » Display cookies
- For Chrome : Icon Tools » Advanced options » Content parameters » Cookies » Display cookies and othe website data
- Find the following cookies:
- domain: www.google.com
- name: S
- path: /calendar/feeds/default/private/full/*
- Delete them.
- Open the list of cookies of the browser:
- Simplified procedure: you delete all cookies of the browser:
- (Re)open Google Calendar in a new tab.
- Refresh your iGoogle page.
For many users, this procedure fixed the issue.
New icons
Mar 8th
The Easy Cool Calendar get richer in icons: 136 icons are now available (instead of 60), covering a large number of daily events, with a new style (thanks to pinvoke for the Fugue icons library).
Due to this large number, the icon selector had to be modified in order to facilitate the navigation. Icons are now grouped by themes.
You are free to give a personal meaning to an icon from a theme for a completely different use.
Holidays
Jan 7th
The localized versions including holidays now available in the Easy Cool Calendar are:
- English (Canada)
- English(United Kingdom)
- English (United States)
- French (Belgium)
- French (Canada)
- French (France)
- Italian
- Portuguese (Portugal)
- Spanish (Spain)
- Portuguese (Brazil)
Until other coming versions …
