TV Listings in Google Personalized Home & Calendar
EvokeTV is a nifty TV listing manager that lets you select certain shows you want to see in the future and tells you when they pop up. It's in starting stages now but promises to bring quite a selection of features to managing your TV viewing habbits. Its purpose is aparently building communities around TV viewing habbits. Its also free and ad-free. But there's more.
To do either of the two tasks below, follow these steps first. Create an account at EvokeTV.com and login. You will need to find the shows you want to show up in your listings and give them a rating. You can set thresholds for how highly-rated a show must be to show up in your listings.
Adding custom TV listings on your Google Personal Homepage
In EvokeTV, click on "My Schedule", select a rating threshold, and copy the address for the RSS feed. Now open up your Google Personalized Home and click "Add Content" at the top-left of the page. Click on "Add by URL" (to the right of the search bar button). And there it is.
Adding custom TV listings to Google Calendar
In EvokeTV, click on "My Schedule", select a rating threshold, and copy the address of the "Subscribe to iCal Feed" link. Now open up Google Calendar and click on the + next to "Other Calendars". Select "Public Calendar Address" and enter the iCal feed address you copied. The address will start with webcal:// which must be changed to http:// for it to work. Hit "add" and you should now have your TV listings in your calendar!
[Ed: since this time, EvokeTV has gone dark]
To do either of the two tasks below, follow these steps first. Create an account at EvokeTV.com and login. You will need to find the shows you want to show up in your listings and give them a rating. You can set thresholds for how highly-rated a show must be to show up in your listings.
Adding custom TV listings on your Google Personal Homepage
In EvokeTV, click on "My Schedule", select a rating threshold, and copy the address for the RSS feed. Now open up your Google Personalized Home and click "Add Content" at the top-left of the page. Click on "Add by URL" (to the right of the search bar button). And there it is.
Adding custom TV listings to Google Calendar
In EvokeTV, click on "My Schedule", select a rating threshold, and copy the address of the "Subscribe to iCal Feed" link. Now open up Google Calendar and click on the + next to "Other Calendars". Select "Public Calendar Address" and enter the iCal feed address you copied. The address will start with webcal:// which must be changed to http:// for it to work. Hit "add" and you should now have your TV listings in your calendar!
[Ed: since this time, EvokeTV has gone dark]

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