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Looking for a Stand-Alone Calendar App?
Chadduss asks: "I don't know about all of you but I've been looking for a good calendar application for quite sometime. I have used the Mozilla calendar extension for Thunderbird but I had problems with it several times. Enter Mozilla Sunbird. That's right, another bird! It's still only version 0.1.1 but I for one hope to see it come out on top."
Disclaimer: I don't work for, nor am I associated with Rainlendar. For the record, I use iCal with my YzDock (OH NO APPLE'S GONNA SUE ME) dock.
Condemnant quod non intellegunt.
simply put, sunbird will run on windows, linux, and os x. it will run decently on all 3 platforms (thanks to XUL and the new os x pinstripe theme used in firefox and thunerbird).
people won't have the excuse of "i can't run that" or "it costs money", etc. it's quite a nice thing, actually. and the bigger plus yet is i don't have to ask people to download the entire mozilla suite + a plugin.
- tristan
eventually the gecko runtime will be a separate library such that you can install it on the machine and then no longer have to distribute it with every app. give it time. as it currently stands you still have to install the entire mozilla suite in linux to install epiphany or galeon.
i think another welcomed edition to this of suite of apps would be a contacts editor, and task editor (much akin to the outlook suite's combination of apps). the day you can syntax exchange amongst the mozilla suite across all 3 big platforms (*nix, windows, mac) would be a great day.
- tristan
I use the Firefox calendar plugin instead, it's the same thing - but without all the bloat :)
Of course, you can't really launch it just by itself (or maybe you can - pointing firefox to the main XUL file of the app should be enough?).
Anyone else here use Rainlendar? :)
I find its a VERY nice piece of software, even if it doesn't have all the fancy contacts/synching/whatever features of other calendars. Nope, its pretty much just stick notes on the days, and glance at your ToDo list. Nothing professional, but for me it works really well.
No, its not perfect... but hey, it IS open source, so you could mod it yourself if you wanted!
I'd reccomend it to anyone whos at that awkward stage between "No calendar" and "Bloated calendar". Heck, maybe even if you're already using a bloated calendar and just want something simple. Give it a whirl, it cant hurt.
I really liked the Calendar component on Mozilla before, but there's one thing that keeps me far far away from it and it's ilk: the TODO app. As of yet there are very few full-featured todo applications that will allow you to sort by category, view by category, list with date, category, and summary, add notes, and sync with the Palm. Evolution is the closest I've come thus far, and even it has trouble with category support for the Palm (I've managed to work around it, however). Until that point, these calendaring applications are nothing but mere toys.
Your in luck. I've been looking for something similiar and I bothered to search the web.
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Freshmeat is always worth a look too. The biggest problem I found was too much choice.
So far I've tried Chronos but I found that not all it's CPAN dependancies were resolvable for me. I've also tried MyCalendar.
It's nice and simple, accessible via the web, but unfortunately it's webpages are too big to fit in my cellphone's memory. My ideal solution would serve up some tight WML when necessary and possibly be accessible via Outlook for my secretary.
So, I haven't found my ideal solution yet.
If anyone has any opinion on the other web calendaring solutions, please share...
TimeCalendar seems pretty good as a stand-alone. Last I checked it hadn't implemented the iCalendar standard like Calzilla or iCal, but I emailed the chap and he said that it was in the works. I need that, so am holding off buying the full version until then. Otherwise it seems like a pretty good thing. The free version is limited to two 'categories' such as work or home that can be switched on & off relatively easily.