1. Add holiday calendar, moon phases and events
Do you want to keep up with sports day, birthdays and other special events? Why not get Google Calendar remind you for a particular event lest you might miss it? On the left side of the page, click the + button beside Other Calendar in the Calendars list. Click on the Browse Calendars tab and then add the calendar of your choice or phases of the moon. Are you a sports devotee? Calendar also lets you search the name of your team and you will be able to add their scheduled games to your calendar. TV addicts can also add TV schedules of their choice.
2. Customize your view.
Google Calendar gives you an ability to customize your view as you like. If you go to the Settings page, under the General Tab, you can adjust many view settings, for example, you can change tabs to Next 3 Days , Next 2 Weeks or Next 5 Days, etc. At the same place, you can also set time and date format that you like, the start day of the week, weather for your area and whether to show weekends or not.
3. Display an agenda in GMail.
Seeing your upcoming appointments in GMail would be a desire of many. Now, it is made possible by a greasemonkey Add Calendar Feed to GMail script. Install the script and then create a Bookmark for your Calendar feed using your personal XML link from the Settings page. Make sure you give your name your bookmark GMgcal. From Tools > Greasemonkey > User Script > Commands in Firefox, run the GMail Agenda setup. You will see your upcoming calendar events shown between your contacts list and labels list. This is quite useful to have a listing if your upcoming events right in your e-mail.
4. View your calendar with a large view
If you are using a small display or a Laptop, you might like to get a bigger view of your Calendar to be able to read everything clearly. For this, there is a Firefox extension Full Cal that gives you keyboard shortcuts to switch between normal and full view on your Calendar.