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I now have a download available (for non-developers) to run the program. You need to have a Google account and a calendar to log to (it will let you pick if you have more than one)
http://code.google.com/p/chesscalendar/downloads/list
at present it shows all its updates in a console window, but I plan to eventually move that to become a taskbar icon with a menu and notifications.
any suggestions (or reports of bugs!) are welcome.
Update: I've been working on a Windows System Tray app that will show a little "Dashboard" of your chess games that you need to make moves on.
Clicking the link on the game title will take you right to the game in Chess.com.
There is a small bug in that if you have no games waiting for moves that the list won't refresh at times, but the calendar entry saving is rock solid. (I also have it as an option that game PGNs can automatically inserted into the Google Calendar Entries)
I'm still working on more features and bugfixes for this so either stay tuned, or download it. (click on the .exe to start it up) here: http://chesscalendar.googlecode.com/files/ChessCalendar.v11.7.10.zip
FYI, the Project Page: http://code.google.com/p/chesscalendar/
Hopefully the Chess.com people won't kill me. (at least I don't think they will. I'm posting it here so they will have a chance to weigh in)
So I created a small open source program to log the chess.com RSS feed for a user to Google calendar.
I'd been using the RSS reader on my Yahoo home page for a while now but all it does is show the entries on my Yahoo news page.
Google calendar is cool because it will let you have it send pop-up reminders to your phone or computer and, since it is logged in the calendar, gives you an opportunity to analyze how often an opponent moves, and what times of the day.
I'm not done yet, but my proof-of-concept works. Its functional, but there is no error checking on it (like if you type in a bad username, or bad Google username).
Take a look. (as its under development I can't guarantee that the latest version will work, but it should. I'd suggest only people familiar with coding or C# look at it at the moment..)
http://code.google.com/p/chesscalendar/
As far as your Google password security, I'm using Google's controls, so I can't vouch for if your password is being sent in the clear or not..
*warning*, as this is open source, if you modify it to ping the crap out of chess.com's rss feed I have a feeling they won't take too kindly to it and might ban your IP Address or something..
Kevin