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Updated: Second Style’s Style Calendar
By Celebrity Trollop | May 19, 2007
Update: Jaydei discovered something I missed. To subscribe to the Second Style calendar, you need to use the website interface. But from in world, you can add events to the shared calendar using the command below. Please let me know how it works out for you. Thanks!
I found an extremely cool gadget yesterday, courtesy of TheDiva Rockin. I was nattering on my other blog about a calendaring gadget I’d like to see in Second Life. A couple of tweets later, and much to my delight, I found that one already exists.
It’s called Calendar Cogs and it’s set up as a HUD. The “client” HUD costs L$250 and it allows you to integrate a Google Calendar with Second Life. The really cool part is that you can get reminders before events — something that often prevents me from showing up somewhere, and also allows users to add events to their own private calendar, or shared public calendars.
Yesterday I made a shared public calendar for fashion events in Second Life. You can follow the events in world by purchasing a Calendar Cogs HUD, setting up your account with Calendar Cogs and then subscribing to the shared public calendar by using the website interface. The calendar name is “SecondStyle” (no spaces!)
To add events in world, use this command:
/15 add Celebrity Trollop SecondStyle
I put the two events for tomorrow on the Calendar already. Feel free to add your own events to the calendar too. Please remember to include a SLurl or grid coordinates!
As you can see, I also linked a version of the calendar on the blog’s sidebar. You can click on a time to get more information about an event.
Topics: Accessories, Odds 'n' Ends |
/me drools
What an awesome device…can’t wait to try it out!
Posted by: Jaydei Benmergui on May 18th, 2007 at 9:01 amHi Celebrity! Thanks for bringing Calendar Clogs to the attention of your readers. I really needed something like this.
Please note that I’ve tried to add your calendar but the hud reported an error saying that it expects the command to be in the format /15 ADD [Avatar name] [Calendar name]. I wonder if it chokes at the calendar name made by two words.
Also… I must be dense, but I can’t see the link to your calendar on the sidebar.
Posted by: Indigo Mertel on May 18th, 2007 at 10:59 amRats… I’m not sure I don’t have mine set up right or what, but I cut and paste the line to input so I wouldn’t mess it up and what I got back was:
There was a problem with your input. It should be in the format ADD [Avatar Name] [CalendarName]
Which it seems to be so hmm… Has anyone successfully done this yet?
Posted by: Morgana Fillion on May 18th, 2007 at 11:52 amIt might be because it’s two words. I’ll see if I can fix it to be just one word. Of course it works for me, because it’s my calendar! :D
Posted by: Celebrity Trollop on May 18th, 2007 at 12:49 pmOK, it’s fixed now! No space. Please let me know if it works for you.
Posted by: Celebrity Trollop on May 19th, 2007 at 12:07 amThis calendar seems so handy! I’ve been using Google Calendar for a while but I only had the reminders in my cell phone.
Posted by: Ana Lutetia on May 19th, 2007 at 6:57 amActually, if I’m reading the instructions correctly, you add events by using the /15 add function. You subscribe to the calendar through your setup on the Calendar Cogs website (the Aggregate link).
Posted by: Jaydei Benmergui on May 19th, 2007 at 11:46 amAnd Diva got the idea from… ;)
Posted by: Crap Mariner on May 22nd, 2007 at 1:31 pmI heard about this from Periapse Linden; cute name and logo!
Posted by: Torley on May 24th, 2007 at 8:20 pm