Access Google Calendar Directly From Outlook

Rather than syncing Google Calendar with Outlook, reader Seth uses the “homepage” feature of Outlook 2003 to access Google Calender. Here’s how:

1) Right-click on your calendar in Outlook and select Properties
2) On the homepage tab, enter http://www.google.com/calendar/render
3) Check “Show Home Page by Default”
4) In the Offline Web Page Settings, de-select downloading web page option.

Pressing CTRL + 2 (the keyboard shortcut to access the calendar in Outlook 2003) will bring you to Google Calendar. See also how to change Thunderbird’s start page in similar fashion. Thanks, Seth! more »

The following is how i solved my problem:

Just for people’s information — I got sound to work by:

No sound for laptop

Problem:
No sound to headphones or internal laptop speaker.
Solution:

1. Open volume control panel (e.g. double click volume applet icon)
2. Select Edit and Preferences
3. Check External Amplifier in Volume Control Preferences dialog if it is not already checked
4. Close Volume Control Preferences dialog
5. Select Switches tab in Volume Control window.
6. Uncheck External Amplifier option
7. Close Volume Control window

I got resolution to work by:

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-intel

Then edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and change the

Dirver “i810″

to

Driver “intel”

by typing:

sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Update:

I just got video to work!

I installed the automatix codecs

then on VLC:

Settings:Preferences: Video: Output modules:

Change ‘default’ to ‘X11 video output’