Krzysztof Bu?ko asks:
I am searching for the best calendar application for Windows. Presently I’m using Rainlendar but it’s not perfect. Google Calendar is most suitable for me, it has easy event adding by simply dragging and clicking, it’s clear and would be perfect if it were not an online application.
I’m looking for something similar but it should have offline mode and if possible a desktop gadget. What could you recommend for me? It would be great if you could recommend a good free application! 
Browser: Firefox 13
System: Windows
Tagged: best software, calendar, find software, free software, windows software
System: Windows
Tagged: best software, calendar, find software, free software, windows software
8 Answers -
anhdroid
June 12, 2012I consider Rainlendar to be the best (free) solution out there.
Google Calendar has offline functionality, but only works with Chrome and you will only be able to view calendars and RSVP to events, which is quite limited.
http://support.google.com/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1340696
i agree Rainlendar is the best, i actually bought pro version and i love it
June 12, 2012so simple yet so much customization (if you do use this the first thing i would recommend you to do is put hotkeys to show/hide window)
me too….me too…
i too recommend rainlender, but if you install rainmeter first, you may get more gadgets and a beautiful and more customisable desktop
http://www.rainlendar.net/cms/index.php
http://rainmeter.net/cms/
June 12, 2012Susendeep Dutta
June 12, 2012Mozilla Sunbird is good software -
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/
How to use Google calendar offline -
http://googlesystem.blogspot.in/2011/09/offline-google-calendar.html
If you use Mozilla Thunderbird email client,you can also get Lightning addon for it which is also popular calendar solution -
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/lightning/
Google calendar offline would be nice if i could add, edit and remove events. Without this it’s useless. But i checked lightning addon and it seems to be what i was searching for. Thank you all for the response.
June 12, 2012I concur with Thunderbird and Google Cal
September 2, 2012Alan Wade
June 12, 2012Here’s a few to choose from: http://offline-calendar-organizer.fyxm.net/
Maria Nagler
June 13, 2012the best and most convenient, no frills calendar I have been using for years. Very simple and uncomplicated entry. http://www.chaosmanager.net
Sergio Casas
June 14, 2012You could try enabling google calendar offline functionality. If I recall correctly, the option is available under the gear(settings) menu on the right side.
if it did work that way, it doesn’t anymore. i cannot find any way to access google calendar offline, even after i install google chrome to do so. google mai, yes, i can access that offline.
August 19, 2012vivocoolguy
June 17, 2012In my opinion the calender gadget of windows vista & 7 is the best calender app. It works offline.
Rob Hindle
September 26, 2012As regards SEO – commercial SEOs come in two varieties: affordable but if not actually dishonest then certainly pretty useless or expensive and not necessarily much better.
I’ve not used an SEO myself but I’ve been involved in monitoring the effectiveness for some guys who did sign up.
One, a company with a product designed specifically for the UK market and not shipping overseas, had a year one cost of £25,000 for SEO.
The SEO made a very few minor tweaks to the web site. As the SEO had promised, traffic to the web site doubled – customer happy. But there was NO increase in sales – customer seriously unhappy. That’s when I got involved. Analysed the before and after logs. All the new visits were from India. The implication was that the SEO had bought clicks (yes there’s a market, you can buy all sorts of stuff, facebook likes, twitter followers, website visits or for a higher fee website actions – charges depend on what you want but not much, maybe $100 for 10,000 facebook likes).
Second guy paid a lot less (I think £600 setup and £50 a month, 1 year minimum). Again only very minor changes to the website then a “didn’t we do well” report from the SEO: “You now have 12 search results in the first 10 pages on Google” before they had 2 on page 1 and 1 on page 2. Those were unchanged, the additional 9 were spread across pages 3-10, which isn’t such a great result. Again the effect on sales was zero.
Don’t believe the snake-oil salesmen.
Best just try to follow Google’s advice:
support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35769
Don’t get too obsessive about any particular aspect, they use over 200 factors to evaluate a page’s significance and each factor is made up of loads of smaller indicators. Rather than try to get a perfect score on one of those 200 better aim to get a reasonable score on lots of them – one small problem being that Google don’t tell us what they all are, however the link above does tell you about some especially if you read between the lines a bit.
Androidfan
October 2, 2012Hello, I am a huge fan of android, so i have an android phone. I use the Calengoo app on my phone to have Google Calender for offline use. I can make new appointments even with sms reminders etc. and when i come home i sync the application through wifi. Since i found the BlueStacks App Player for windows i can play android apps on my computer/laptop. Bluestacks is an android emulator. I installed the Calengoo app logged in to my Google account and i have a perfect offline Google Calender. I can make offline changes and sync when i have an internet connection. Even sms reminder works great.
Also Android has more free offline calender apps, but i like Calengoo.
http://bluestacks.com/