The more time you spend online, the more sense it makes to manage your time with an online calendar.

Online calendars alert you to impending appointments, help you keep and back up your agenda without stacks of paper, and let you share your schedule with trusted associates or the general public. You can access an online calendar from any Internet-connected computer and integrate one with your e-mail.

Dozens of good Web-based calendars exist today, but the big players are Yahoo and Google. Which calendar is more of a time-management knockout? Yahoo Calendar has been the most popular tool of its kind since 1998, but the recent release of the dynamic Google Calendar beta has shaken up the scene. We'll break down the features to help you decide whether you should stay true to Yahoo's pioneering calendar or be a Google go-getter.

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