Archive for April, 2006

Collection of optical illusions


Do you believe in what you see? Sometimes your brain is forcefully made to believe what you see. To see how your eyes cheat your brain, here is a collection of 62 optical illusions.
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Subscribe to a Google Calendar using Sunbird


The big news of the day is … Google has released the much anticipated Google Calendar! Wow, Google has got online calendar, big deal, isn’t it? Yahoo and MSN has got one for ages, and what makes Google’s offering unique?

For one very obvious reason, Google lets you use iCal format to share your calendars. Woohoo… don’t worry, giving you the ability to share your calendars doesn’t mean you need to share them with the rest of the world! By default, all calendar events are private unless you want to make them public.

Now let’s make one of your calendars public so that we can access it via Sunbird. The Sunbird Project is Mozilla’s (the company behind the popular Firefox web browser) approach to produce a cross platform standalone calendar application based on Mozilla’s XUL user interface language. It’s free and currently in alpha stage. Nevertheless, you can still use it to access your Google Calendar.

And below is the howto.
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