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johnywhy asked a question in Google on February 19, 2009 18:15:

Calendar "Add By Url" Does Not Refresh At All, Or Not Fast Enough

Many users have complained, in numerous fora, that if you "Add By URL" an .ics calendar, it does not refresh. Appointments that existed at the time the calendar were added appear in Google calendar, but not new ones. Google states this will refresh within 24 hours, but it does not.

A 24-hour refresh cycle is utterly useless for calendering anyway. If you have a busy professional schedule, and you're sharing your calendar with colleagues, they're not going to see your updates until it's too late.

Google has yet to fix or respond to this problem.

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p...
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johnywhy started following the problem "Google does Not Synch with ICal -- Help Google !" in Google.

johnywhy started following the problem "Google does Not Synch with ICal -- Help Google !" in Google.

johnywhy replied on January 12, 2009 19:08 to the question ""Sign In" link" in Vidoop:

but if i enter the url, then i would think your system could browse to that page behind the scenes... allowing me to load up all my sites in bulk. would be much faster that way.

johnywhy replied on January 11, 2009 14:11 to the question "How do I contact my contacts?" in Get Satisfaction:

i would like to be able to either:

-submit a question or comment privately to a contact, or

-submit a question or comment PUBLICLY to a contact. contacts could have public discussion threads on their profile page, as they do now, but the discussions could be initiated on their profile page. your system could use some intelligence to determine if my question is related to an existing thread, product, or company (associated with that contact), and ask me if i want to add my post to one of those threads, products, or companies.

johnywhy started following the question "How do I contact my contacts?" in Get Satisfaction.

johnywhy replied on January 09, 2009 09:13 to the question ""Sign In" link" in Vidoop:

i do not understand this limitation. i think it would be easier to add all my sites inside myvidoop, without having to browse to each of them.

A comment on the idea "import from spurl xbel" in Agglom:

I'll have to think about that. but, my first thought is that i am looking for a bookmarking service which supports the equivalent of folders, sub-folders, sub-sub-folders, and so-on, without limit. – johnywhy, on December 04, 2008 23:21

johnywhy replied on December 04, 2008 04:11 to the idea "import from spurl xbel" in Agglom:

the user downloads it from spurl, after logging into spurl.

you could get it from spur, with the user's spurl username and password.

OR, ask user to upload the file to you.

i don't need a per-folder checkbox-- i know i want to upload the whole thing.

my spurls include sub-folders. can you convert sub-folders into subsets?

is "set" the right target for a folder? what other kinds of groupings do you offer, besides sets?

thanks!

johnywhy replied on December 03, 2008 07:13 to the idea "import from spurl xbel" in Agglom:

here's an example of such an xbel file:
http://boxstr.com/files/4241994_birfj/Spurlxbel.xml.zip

johnywhy started following the question "Dial out using my GrandCentral number directly from my phone?" in Grand Central.

johnywhy replied on November 29, 2008 05:20 to the question "Exporting my Todoist data to a file" in Todoist:

hurray. i would love to see export to simple text file, with multiple tabs for sub-tasks. Exporting would be contextual-- the page being viewed is what would be exported. Exporting the control screen would export all projects.

johnywhy asked a question in Agglom on November 25, 2008 11:14:

sidebar like spurl sidebar

not limited to firefox

johnywhy shared an idea in Agglom on November 25, 2008 11:13:

import from spurl xbel

spurl is fantastic (you should steal their features), but they are unreliable. please import their xml export, which is called an xbel file.

johnywhy reported a problem in Google on October 21, 2008 08:24:

Major Screen-Redraw Delay

When switching between tabs, there's a significant screen-redraw delay.

johnywhy reported a problem in Google on October 21, 2008 02:05:

Buttons Don't Get Highlighted When They Take Focus

When tabbing through controls, such as text-boxes and buttons, buttons do not become outlined or highlighted to indicate that they have the focus.

As a result, I cannot tell if they have focus, so I'm forced to use the mouse to click buttons. I prefer to use the space-bar or enter key, as I do in IE, Firefox, Safari, etc.

johnywhy reported a problem in Todoist on October 21, 2008 01:59:

Some Today Items Not Listed Under Today

Some priority 1 dated today items are listed on the start page in the Priority 1 section, instead of the Today section where they belong.

Appears to be inconsistent, because some today Priority 1 items ARE correctly listed in Today section.

johnywhy asked a question in Qik on October 17, 2008 23:33:

Max Record Time?

What's the maximum time that your system will record for a single stream?