OT: Calendar Software Recommendations

Jim Thompson · Jun 1, 2005

I have an ancient calendar software called Perfect Time, dating
wa-a-a-ay back.

Just a plain vanilla calendar, looking much like the multi-squared
thingy on your desk.

But the alarm function is broken on Win2K.

Anyone have recommendations? No M$ products please ;-)

...Jim Thompson
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Rich Webb · Jun 1, 2005

On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 15:40:41 -0700, Jim Thompson
<thegreatone@example.com> wrote:

I have an ancient calendar software called Perfect Time, dating
wa-a-a-ay back.

Just a plain vanilla calendar, looking much like the multi-squared
thingy on your desk.

But the alarm function is broken on Win2K.

Anyone have recommendations? No M$ products please ;-)

Time to pick up a PDA? I resisted the lure for a long time but found out
that the little buggers really are useful.

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Rich Webb Norfolk, VA

Jim Thompson · Jun 1, 2005

On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 23:19:25 GMT, Rich Webb
<bbew.ar@mapson.nozirev.ten> wrote:

On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 15:40:41 -0700, Jim Thompson
thegreatone@example.com> wrote:

I have an ancient calendar software called Perfect Time, dating
wa-a-a-ay back.

Just a plain vanilla calendar, looking much like the multi-squared
thingy on your desk.

But the alarm function is broken on Win2K.

Anyone have recommendations? No M$ products please ;-)

Time to pick up a PDA? I resisted the lure for a long time but found out
that the little buggers really are useful.

480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax

Chuck Harris · Jun 1, 2005

Jim Thompson wrote:

Time to pick up a PDA? I resisted the lure for a long time but found out
that the little buggers really are useful.

I rarely leave the office and very rarely travel... last trip was
February 2; I even have a client that I've worked with for almost five
years, but I've never met him ;-)

...Jim Thompson

I rarely take my PDA anywhere, most of the time it sits in its cradle on
my desk. But, it is the handiest little bugger there ever was. I use the
calander function, and the alarms to orchestrate my day, and help me meet
appointments. The phone directory is better than any rolodex. I keep it
plugged into my Linux PC, and using kpilot, I can keep it synced, and I can
enter anything I need into the PDA, or, I can use the stylus, and the script
that it understands.

Palm Vx's are going for $20 on ebay, complete. As I said, they are the handiest
little buggers.

-Chuck Harris

Joerg · Jun 1, 2005

Hello Jim,

I have an ancient calendar software called Perfect Time, dating
wa-a-a-ay back.

Ancient programs (aka DOS programs) were the best.

But the alarm function is broken on Win2K.

Same here. I believe only Windows programs can alarm reliably via the
Windows OS. Whatever reliable means on that OS.

Anyone have recommendations? No M$ products please ;-)

Ok, I know, I know. But if you bought a PC with some basic stuff
included it may already contain MS-Works or some Office SW. I used Works
for almost a decade to remind me of sales tax filing deadlines and all
sorts of stuff. Worked fine. In the DOS days it cost me about $100 for
the whole package, now usually free because the PCs come loaded with it.
Its new calendar is a bit too glitzy for me but I was told it works
almost as good as the DOS version did.

Just give it a shot.

I rarely leave the office and very rarely travel... last trip was
February 2; I even have a client that I've worked with for almost five
years, but I've never met him ;-)

I have a client whom I never met for technical reasons in over ten
years. It was always electronic transfers, even in the 1200-9600bps
days. Once we did meet but only because the CEO wanted to.

Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com

Jim Thompson · Jun 2, 2005

On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 00:04:56 GMT, Joerg
<notthisjoergsch@removethispacbell.net> wrote:

[snip]

I rarely leave the office and very rarely travel... last trip was
February 2; I even have a client that I've worked with for almost five
years, but I've never met him ;-)

I have a client whom I never met for technical reasons in over ten
years. It was always electronic transfers, even in the 1200-9600bps
days. Once we did meet but only because the CEO wanted to.

Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com

480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax

James Meyer · Jun 2, 2005

On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 15:40:41 -0700, Jim Thompson <thegreatone@example.com>
wroth:

Anyone have recommendations? No M$ products please ;-)

...Jim Thompson

Most applications running under a M$ operating system, whether the
application was written by M$ or somebody else, make so much use of the M$
operating system, that they might as well have been written by M$.

Unless you have an old CP/M system or an Apple ][, I don't think it's
possible to get completely away from M$ and its software tenticles.

Even those old systems made use of M$ Basic.

Jim

Chuck Harris · Jun 2, 2005

James Meyer wrote:

Anyone have recommendations? No M$ products please ;-)

...Jim Thompson

Most applications running under a M$ operating system, whether the
application was written by M$ or somebody else, make so much use of the M$
operating system, that they might as well have been written by M$.

Unless you have an old CP/M system or an Apple ][, I don't think it's
possible to get completely away from M$ and its software tenticles.

Even those old systems made use of M$ Basic.

Jim

Poppycock!

You obviously haven't heard of Linux, BSD, and the Open Source movement!

There are dozens of free calander programs that are available free that run
under linux, or any other unix variant. Many run under 'doze too.

Put google to work, you can find everything that is out there.

Try something like : calander program, free, windows

-Chuck Harris

Tom Del Rosso · Jun 2, 2005

"Jim Thompson" <thegreatone@example.com> wrote in message
news:r4es91980of8br00s7t34uu44pj9thpktj@4ax.com...

I have an ancient calendar software called Perfect Time, dating
wa-a-a-ay back.

Just a plain vanilla calendar, looking much like the multi-squared
thingy on your desk.

But the alarm function is broken on Win2K.

Anyone have recommendations? No M$ products please ;-)

Do you *want* to keep using the old program? If so, and if it's a DOS
program, then this tool will allow it to use the sound card under Win2k or
XP.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/vdmsound/

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OBones · Jun 2, 2005

Chuck Harris wrote:

James Meyer wrote:

Anyone have recommendations? No M$ products please ;-)

...Jim Thompson

Most applications running under a M$ operating system, whether the
application was written by M$ or somebody else, make so much use of
the M$
operating system, that they might as well have been written by M$.

Unless you have an old CP/M system or an Apple ][, I don't think it's
possible to get completely away from M$ and its software tenticles.

Even those old systems made use of M$ Basic.

Jim

Poppycock!

You obviously haven't heard of Linux, BSD, and the Open Source movement!

There are dozens of free calander programs that are available free that run
under linux, or any other unix variant. Many run under 'doze too.

Put google to work, you can find everything that is out there.

Try something like : calander program, free, windows

Sure do, but I couldn't find any with a "year" view.

Chuck Harris · Jun 2, 2005

OBones wrote:

Chuck Harris wrote:

Poppycock!

You obviously haven't heard of Linux, BSD, and the Open Source movement!

There are dozens of free calander programs that are available free
that run
under linux, or any other unix variant. Many run under 'doze too.

Put google to work, you can find everything that is out there.

Try something like : calander program, free, windows

Sure do, but I couldn't find any with a "year" view.

You don't even have to break a sweat to find one that can do that!

Try Gnome Calendar 1.20, or Korganizer.

-Chuck

OBones · Jun 2, 2005

Chuck Harris wrote:

OBones wrote:

Chuck Harris wrote:

Poppycock!

You obviously haven't heard of Linux, BSD, and the Open Source movement!

There are dozens of free calander programs that are available free
that run
under linux, or any other unix variant. Many run under 'doze too.

Put google to work, you can find everything that is out there.

Try something like : calander program, free, windows

Sure do, but I couldn't find any with a "year" view.

You don't even have to break a sweat to find one that can do that!

Try Gnome Calendar 1.20, or Korganizer.

Yeh, but getting them under windows is a challenge...
I'll check for the gnome calendar though.

Ted Edwards · Jun 2, 2005

Jim Thompson wrote:

I have an ancient calendar software called Perfect Time, dating
wa-a-a-ay back.

Just a plain vanilla calendar, looking much like the multi-squared
thingy on your desk.

Mozilla. It has a calendar feature as well as browser and
e-mail/newsgroups. Best of all it isn't an M$ product and is cross
platform.

Ted

Ted Edwards · Jun 2, 2005

Chuck Harris wrote:

Poppycock!

You obviously haven't heard of Linux, BSD, and the Open Source movement!

You omitted OS/2-eCS which is alive and well with a growing list of free
and not-free apps. A quick look on http://hobbes.nmsu.edu , search on
"calendar" shows 28 of them for OS/2-eCS all free.

Ted

qrk · Jun 2, 2005

On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 15:40:41 -0700, Jim Thompson
<thegreatone@example.com> wrote:

I have an ancient calendar software called Perfect Time, dating
wa-a-a-ay back.

Just a plain vanilla calendar, looking much like the multi-squared
thingy on your desk.

But the alarm function is broken on Win2K.

Anyone have recommendations? No M$ products please ;-)

Try Mozilla's bloat-ware calendar. I don't use it, but I took a look
at it and it appeared to do the right thing. It is a stand-alone app.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/

Mozilla also has a calendar plugin for their Firefox browser.
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=208

Mozilla also has a great AdBlock plugin.

---
Mark

Jim Thompson · Jun 2, 2005

On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 18:59:14 GMT, qrk <SpamTrap@spam.net> wrote:

On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 15:40:41 -0700, Jim Thompson
thegreatone@example.com> wrote:
I have an ancient calendar software called Perfect Time, dating
wa-a-a-ay back.

Just a plain vanilla calendar, looking much like the multi-squared
thingy on your desk.

But the alarm function is broken on Win2K.

Anyone have recommendations? No M$ products please ;-)

Try Mozilla's bloat-ware calendar. I don't use it, but I took a look
at it and it appeared to do the right thing. It is a stand-alone app.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/

[snip]
Mark

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Tim Hubberstey · Jun 3, 2005

Jim Thompson wrote:

I have an ancient calendar software called Perfect Time, dating
wa-a-a-ay back.

Just a plain vanilla calendar, looking much like the multi-squared
thingy on your desk.

But the alarm function is broken on Win2K.

Anyone have recommendations? No M$ products please ;-)

I use the calendar from the Mozilla family:

<http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/>

It has some issues (printing, in particular) but I'm hoping that these
will be resolved in future releases. The problem here is that I don't
know how much (if any) development activity there is on this project and
there hasn't been a release since March. I also don't know if it can
operate stand-alone or if it needs Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird installed
to work.

Whatever you use, I recommend that you choose something that supports
the iCal standard. This *should* guarantee that your calendar database
is portable across supporting applications. I can confirm that it works
(reasonably) well between Mozilla and the net-based calendar at
axentra.net. I keep my calendar db on axentra and can (theoretically)
connect to, and manipulate, it from any computer running Mozilla Calendar.

For simple "remind me in xx minutes" or "at 4pm today" things, I use
Phatsoft TMR:

<http://www.phatsoft.net/format.php?page=project.xsl&id=TMR>.

It is basically a GUI for the Windows task scheduler and I find it works
quite well. It also works as a quick way to schedule programs to run. I
use it to start up my TV card

If you *really* want to go nuts, there are ports of 'cron' for Windows.
I assume there must be lots of *nix calendars that can tap into its power.
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Marmot Engineering . . . . . . . VHDL, ASICs, FPGAs, embedded systems
Vancouver, BC, Canada . . . . . . . . . . . http://www.marmot-eng.com

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