Recently, Gmail added IMAP support, giving the powerhouse email host the ability to interact better with third-party clients. And Google, being the friendly neighborhood do-gooder that it is, provided instructions on how to use IMAP with a variety of third-party clients. However, it forgot one popular client: KMail, the email portion of the KDE Kontact personal information management suite. Google also neglected to mention that several of its other services, such as Google Calendar and Google Reader, can work well with Kontact. Here's how you can integrate them.

There was a time when I had a work calendar on my employer's Exchange server and a home calendar in Kontact. Then my wife had a paper calendar on the wall in our office. Addresses and phone numbers were spread across Exchange at work, Kontact and Quicken at home, and a vast array of sticky notes and scratch pieces of paper generously scattered throughout the house.

A step-by-step guide to synchronizing google Calendar with your Nokia phones using opensync on bluetooth. A hack for phones that don't support internet/wifi. The same method also works for thunderbird and other calendars.

KonsoleKalendar lets you interact with the calendar application in KDE's Kontact from the command-line. Aside from possibly using this handy utility via SSH to remotely add an event to your calendar, you could probably also use it in a Bash, Python, or other script.

"I’ve found a cool Howto about syncing your Icedove/Thunderbird Lightning calendar with Google Calendar, Zimbra, or any other iCal server (see Wikipedia for a list of servers which support it)..."

Within the Open Source, and especially the Linux community, there are basically two options for replacing Microsoft Outlook: Kontact and Evolution. As you know, Outlook is an all-in-one email, calendar, todo, contact application that also publishes information. In a corporate environment (especially a large corporate environment) most companies use and Exchange server to handle mail. If you are an employee in such an environment, and you want to adopt a Linux desktop you will be very limited in what you can do with an Exchange server. Will either Kontact or Evolution fit into your environment? Let’s find out.

I used to switch between KDE's Kontact and GNOME's Evolution. But it's been a long time since I've looked back at the latter. I finally settled on Kontact to keep me in touch with the reality of my hectic daily schedule. See how you can keep up...

"As I’ve mentioned before, the Mozilla Calendar project, which includes the Lightning calendar extension to Thunderbird, is moving right along. It’s currently at version 0.7, heading towards a 0.8 release ASAP. I’ve asked the Calendar team how I can help, and the answer has been clear — they need more developers..."

Google Browser Sync provides more than just a simple method of syncing bookmarks. It syncs all your Firefox data -- bookmarks, cookies, passwords, history, tabs, and windows. So, not only are your bookmarks kept in sync, but you can even close a Firefox session with tabs and windows open, and reopen the same session on another PC.