{"id":623,"date":"2013-01-07T17:12:30","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T17:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomjottings.co.uk\/wpress\/?p=623"},"modified":"2014-02-12T10:03:26","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T10:03:26","slug":"windows-8-gadgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/?p=623","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8 Gadgets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things I miss about Outlook since I changed to Thunderbird is the calendar. I also had a handy little app that synced it with Google (handy since I use Android on my tablet and phone) and a gadget at the side of the screen that let me know what was coming my way.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, not only have I lost Outlook but also the gadget functionality that came with Windows 7.<\/p>\n<p>A bit of searching led me to <a title=\"http:\/\/8gadgetpack.bplaced.net\/\" href=\"http:\/\/8gadgetpack.bplaced.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">8GadgetPack<\/a>\u00a0a handy utility that allows you to use gadgets in Windows 8, either directly on the desktop or as part of a sidebar (especially handy now I have 2 monitors and space I can sacrifice to have this stuff always available)<\/p>\n<p>This gave me the ever popular analogue clock which saves me having to squint at the bottom corner of the screen, and a range of gadgets that are similar to the ones that came with windows 7, but the calendar options that come with the initial\u00a0installation\u00a0seem limited.<\/p>\n<p>A bit of searching brought me to <a title=\"http:\/\/wlcalendargadget.codeplex.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/wlcalendargadget.codeplex.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Windows Live Calendar<\/a>\u00a0which will happily sync with calendars that use the iCal format (Windows Live and Google among them).<\/p>\n<p>Install the gadget, go to Google Calendar and click &#8220;Share&#8221; on the calendar you want to add. On the calendar tab is &#8220;Private Address&#8221; and two buttons next to it. Click the one that says iCal and paste the URL into the calendar gadget. As easy as that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things I miss about Outlook since I changed to Thunderbird is the calendar. I also had a handy little app that synced it with Google (handy since I use Android on my tablet and phone) and a gadget at the side of the screen that let me know what was coming my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":731,"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions\/731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}