Apiit Students, do you need sms reminders for your classes? 7 Comments
If you would like to skip the story and start reciveing sms right away go to the bottom of the post and follow the numbered steps.
The Story..
As some of you might be aware, almost about a year ago i wrote a gadget for google desktop and scraps the Apiit time tabe from there webspace page (taking week no, and intake code as parameters). This is the follow up to that..
I been using Google Calendar for quite some time now, and over the time i been using it, i also wanted to try out the API just for the hell of it, but i never really got around to it, then a few weeks ago, i noticed they they had enabled mobile services for malaysia, allowing sms reminders for your events.
This gave me the push i need to finally play around with the API, it was simple enough. So anyway after playing around with it for a few hours it just occured to me that i wud be really cool if i could add my class details to the calendar thereby getting sms reminders before every class.
But anyone who uses Google Cal would tell you adding them manually with there interface is a lot of work, (i.e alot of writing in text boxes, drop downs that sort of thing) . So i thot it wud be convinient if i could write a js script to do the job for me. which is where greasemonkey comes along. 
Anyway, so i wrote a few lines of js for greasemonkey that adds a button to the end of every class once you go to the webspace time table page. The button once clicked takes you to the server page thats prompts you to login to your google account and then it automaticaly adds the class as a reminder to your GCal. which sends you an sms with the location of the class and time time, one hour before every class.
Pls Note that you have to manually add reminder once a week, i could have created a recurring event but i didnt think it would not be practical as some weeks we dont have classes and location and time might change.
So here is how to do the setup to recieve sms reminders for your classes, its a few steps, but really useful once you start getting those reminders. 
Setup sms reminders for your classes
- Setup a google acoount ( if you dont have one). then go to http://google.com/calendar to do setting for you mobile. its under settings at the top right corner
- Install Greasemonkey for firefox. via this URL, and yes it only works in firefox. sorry microsoft pple
- Go to userscrips.org and download my script to modify the webspace timetabe page, here
- Once the script is installed you should see a link next to every class in the timetable that allows you to add a reminder to google cal.
Enjoy…