Google finally edges iCal out
August 26th, 2006There has been much talk about how Google Calendar has made a lot of people toss out Apple’s iCal (atleast from their docks). However, with Google’s latest Mac-only upgrade for the Gmail Notifier, now called the Google Notifier for Mac, I can see many more people quit their iCal applications for the last time, myself included. The new notifier adds a Google Calendar icon along with the standard Gmail notifier icon in the menu bar, letting you access your Google Calendar, create a new event, and get reminders of upcoming events with a single click. The mail notifier has also been vastly improved. It now indicates the last time it checked your mailbox, and sports a Growl-like dark glass message preview for new messages (not to mention some new icons and custom notification sounds).
Google has already made much needed performance improvements for Safari users, so this new notifier should bring back some staunch Mac users back to their door. Personally however, I’m content with the new Firefox 2.0 beta for Mac, which is quite responsive and seems to have been rid of the memory leak issues plaguing Firefox 1.5 on the Mac.
