Some Interesting Tid Bits on Google Calendar

I've been poking around Google Calendar's (GCal) source code and found out more about compatible web browsers, bookmarks, dispatches, maxiumum lenghts for text boxes and occasional errors. Well it's more positive notes than negative and considering that this product is still in Beta, anything is possible and so bugs are forgiven at this point in time!

For starters, within the GCal interface that looks a lot similliar to GMail, one would find links titled as gmail, google search features and more — these are known as Corner Bookmarks, according to a reference made to them within the code, the class which contains the way in which these links are called is titled as cornerBookmarks.

Included below is a code block of javascript within table tags that shows the reference to the class name:

<table cellpadding="0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;padding-top:1px" cellspacing="0" id="cornerBookmarks" class="cornerBookmarks">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="white-space: nowrap;" class="cornerBookmarks"><div style="overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; float: left" class="cornerBookmarks">
<a href="http://www.google.com/webhp" class="cornerBookmarks" target="_blank">Google</a> <a href="http://mail.google.com/mail/" class="cornerBookmarks" target="_blank">Gmail</a> <b>Calendar</b> <a href="http://www.google.com/options/" target="_blank" id="cornerBookmarksMore" class="cornerBookmarks">more »</a></div></td>

</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

Financial Aid, Students & New Tech Interests

The countdown has started and the deadline is almost around the corner for Google Scholarship Program applications while the Internet giant is shopping at universities in Canada to staff it’s new RnD office and although the Aussie graduate — Ori Allon and his search engine algorithm have been snapped up by Google, but it doesn’t stop there as new data surfaces on Google’s interest in a product developed by Israel’s top hi-tech expert.

In less than 48 hours, applications for Google’s offer of financial aid to the HCF (Hispanic College Fund) for Compute Science/Engineering Master’s and PhD students will come to a close at the start of the weekend (April 15th), so if you’re interested in getting atleast $5,000 in tutition fees/individual awardee of the $100,000 Google Scholarship Program,then you’d need to act fast and apply here ASAP!

Last Summer, Google acquired ReqWireless, a Canadian mobile-tech startup by University of Waterloo (UW) graduate — Roger Skubowius, who was then pulled in as a Googler. ReqWireless is specialized in creating applications for viewing e-mail and web content on various wireless devices. A month ago, Google sent in Craig Nevill-Manning who is their Chief Engineer and Director of the Manhattan office to the UW campus to host a geek party-style career fair titled “Let’s Talk”. According to the article –’Waterloo Welcomes Google‘ in IMPRINT which is the UW Student newspaper, ‘the purpose of the event was to extend an invitation to UW students to apply to Google openings in Waterloo and their other offices, as well as to feed the curiosity of attendees interested in hearing about Google’s existing and upcoming technology‘.