March 13, 2011
Do you remember, before the advent of palm pilots, blackberrys and smartphones, carrying around one of those leather bound planners, to keep track of your daily schedule? Opus Domini [App Store Link] is the ideal solution for someone looking for a virtual version of that kind of daily planner. The virtual daily planner is divided [...]
October 26, 2010
Last month, we wrote about how you can use Google Calendar to keep multiple instances of iCal and even your Android calendar synchronized. This applies to people who want to keep their own calendar up to date on multiple machines. Publishing and subscribing to iCal feeds allows you to watch other people’s calendars relative to [...]
September 19, 2010
One way to avoid procrastination and general tardiness is the regular use of a calendar. Mac OS X comes shipped with iCal, a great free calendar application. The slick looks and features make it almost everything a punctuality-freak wants. By synchronizing iCal with Google Calendar, you can bring your calendar to the cloud, use it [...]
November 24, 2009
In this digital era, every part of human life which can be digitized has been digitized. From work documents to personal conversations, everything can be transferred into bits and bytes. Even social communities are moving into the virtual territories. Facebook is one of those e-areas. The millions of Facebook users around the world is the [...]
November 17, 2009
On my way to have a more organized life, I’ve tried to utilize iCal to the fullest. I have found the quickest way to add tasks and events to iCal, but have yet to find the quickest way to show them. I figure that instead of opening another app just to show my tasks and [...]
November 8, 2009
When it comes to managing life and work, I used to be the kind of person who relied on memory alone. The furthest path I took was writing tasks on a small piece of paper and threw it away after everything was done. Call me disorganized, but somehow I survived. But recently, I could barely [...]
August 31, 2008
Most things will work well on Mac but unfortunately, every operating system has its limitations. On Macs, we have what we call “quirks”. These quirks are random issues which are pretty simple to solve but Apple just won’t. OS X users will then rally on the Apple Support forums to try and unravel the solution. [...]
August 13, 2008
One cool thing about Macs is that most of their applications interrelate and communicate with each other out of the box. Information bounces across multiple applications seamlessly. Data from Mail can be sent to iCal and Address Book without raising an eyebrow, as I have written in a previous article. Many Mac users embrace this [...]
August 11, 2008
The availability of desktop calendars like MS Outlook Calendar and iCal and free online calendars like Google Calendar have certainly made managing schedules quick and easy. However when it comes to sharing and syncing calendars, there are still not many good solutions available which are free and convenient to work with. It’s not an easy [...]
December 28, 2007
Rainlendar2 is an easy to use and lightweight desktop calendar for Windows and Linux computers. Although, it’s available both as lite (free) and pro (€15) version, here I am only looking at the lite version. With the lite version you can: Schedule events, tasks, and alarms, Manage multiple calendars, Import / export / backup / [...]
