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Google Calendar has been out for a few weeks now and people have gotten a chance to use the system. Stopdesign has a collection of tips to help you use Google Calendar more efficiently. They also have a few tips for Mac users hesitant to switch from iCal to Google Calendar.

The keyboard shortcuts list out the available shortcuts and what they do. The tutorial also explains how to customize the custom tab. Another key feature in Google Calendar is its ability to send reminders in the form of text messages. Stopdesign also explains how to get a full agenda by sending a text message. If you are on a Mac they have found Google Calendar to work best on Camino and Firefox and that there isn’t too much support for Safari. By reducing the toolbars in the browser it opens the window to a larger view and you can see a full calendar.

There are quite a few more tricks and it’s a good tutorial to check out if you are interested in using Google Calendar.