Google Calendar and iCal

I’ve been burned by Outlook failures too many times. For quite some time I did not use a calendaring program. If you are not in the business world, you can live without a calendar program. When a bought my first Macintosh I started to use iCal. I liked the simplicity of the program and the features it offered. The problem was that I was often on a Windows computer far away from my Mac. Then I learned about Google Calendar. The beauty of Google Calendar is that it can broadcast your information to other applications over the Internet. Now, I use Google Calendar as my primary calendar program. After I complete a scheduled task it automatically sends it to iCal. Google Calendar also sends be an email every day with my itinerary. To get started you must have a Gmail account. The accounts are free and it opens the door to many of the other free Google programs.