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KevinLA
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25 Sep 2012, 4:14 pm

It is a reminder program for Google Calendar.

http://code.google.com/p/gminder

http://reflectivecode.com/gminder

In order to use it, I enter my Gmail e-mail address and password.



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25 Sep 2012, 4:51 pm

If you are giving away your email address and account password to a third party they will have full access to all your emails as would anyone else they may share that information with.


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25 Sep 2012, 5:10 pm

TallyMan wrote:
If you are giving away your email address and account password to a third party they will have full access to all your emails as would anyone else they may share that information with.


Is giving my information to a program the same as giving it to a third party?



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25 Sep 2012, 8:49 pm

Yes.

EDIT: IIRC - it's possible to subscribe to a google calendar using any standard iCal app (such as Thunderbird/Lightning) using a special URL that does not contain the same password as the one you use to access your mailbox. You might want to look into setting that up for alerting.


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