Secondly, does it have protection agasinst double posting in the same time the same calendar?

I've never seen that before. Have you used software that does it? I assume it's something you can turn off, right?

Outlook lets you turn that on. Used for a medical appointment calendar, one calendar per medical provider. YOu can see why in that context you would not want two appointments for the same doctor at the same time.

Yeah, I'm like meara here. I still need to finish up some RSS feed setup.

And while we're talking Google abandonment, let me self-pimp a moment. If you want to leave the search engine entirely, you could start using

Google cut Liese off.

Liese, very mysterious.

Mind you I don;t neccesarily want to abandon google. But I hate the "let us show you the results you got in previous searchs" thing. If I do a google search must of the time i'm looking for info not confirmation of my prejudices.

I've started using Go Dog Go as a search engine. They do rely on Google themselves for some stuff, though, like News searches, which is annoying.

Hee, dunno what happened there. There was a whole big post. Now I'm afraid to repost, I think Google is coming to my house.

You could start using goodsearch. It's based on the yahoo engine and donates a portion of its advertising revenues to whatever charity you select (the above links to mine, Hope in Transit).

They also have affiliated programs where you can donate by dining and shopping. You can use their toolbar, which will show you when you're on a participating site. Again, that theoretically is the Hope in Transit branded toolbar.

I just now set it up for us, so if anyone does, I'd appreciate the feedback. I haven't yet promoted it to our supporters.

The negatives are: it uses cookies, so if you're leaving Google for privacy reasons, this might not be an acceptable solution. Signing up (separate signup) for Gooddining does want you to receive marketing email. And the toolbar, infuriatingly, has a non-removable Amazon button.

So it's not entirely ideal, but it's what I'm currently playing with. Now to see if this will actually post.

YOu can see why in that context you would not want two appointments for the same doctor at the same time.

Someone tell my doctors about that, will you?

it uses cookies, so if you're leaving Google for privacy reasons, this might not be an acceptable solution

Cookies aren't inherently evil, you know. Buffistas.org uses cookies. It's a case by case thing, and lots of solid functionality relies on sessions not being entirely transient. I am a bit leery of the blanket bad name they seem to have.

If you're going to use something that has a participating site feature, cookies are pretty much the most sensible way to track things--and it's exactly the sort of cookie most people tend to get paranoid about, the cross-site cookie, but again, if it's the point, what's the point of not having it?

Not that I ever install anything with a toolbar. I hate hate hate third party toolbars.

Liese, how do you balance an Android phone with eschewing Google?

Man, my powerbook does not like me putting the new phone down on it. Gets all pissy.

NOt even on an android and not planning on eschewing google, Just hate how they are making searches, their core product, less useful. I mean I set it not to use personal results which should take care of the problem, except it keeps getting unset. An example of how cookies are not inherently evil - my problem is caused by a cookie being deleted either by overly zealous anti-malware software at my end, or some error at google's end.

I have been using duckduckgo and I really love it as a search engine. I also like their bang (!) shortcuts for various sites.

Their iphone app is okay, but needs some spiffing up I think, but for the desktop, it is really good.

I find I have to use google search for some things (like cached pages), duckduckgo does not have caches.

Typo, I don't know how to address your questions about backpack. You might want to email support and ask them. You seem to be a SUPER calendar user and I am more in the "basic" category.