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TUAW'S Daily iPad App: Pocket Informant HD

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jul 28th, 2011)

WebIS Pocket Informant is an advanced PIM that has been around for years, transitioning from the Windows Mobile platform to iOS quite nicely. The iPad version of this calendaring and task management app is particularly notable for its wonderful layout and efficient use of the entire iPad ...

Blotter for Mac puts iCal on your desktop

by Steven Sande (Jun 30th, 2011)

Back when I was in corporate America, an annual tradition was to order new calendars for the desk. I preferred the "day at a glance" type, but many of my fellow wage slaves liked these large desk blotter calendars that displayed a full month. Now there's a Mac app from WireLoad, Blotter ...

TUAW's Daily Mac App: CalendarBar

by Samuel Gibbs (May 2nd, 2011)

For most office-bound people, checking their calendar is one of the biggest chores of the electronic world. On the Mac, we've got many great options for managing calendars, including iCal, but what about a fast way to check your schedule from your desktop? That's where CalendarBar comes ...

Fluid lets you embed webpages as your desktop or in menu bar

by TJ Luoma (May 10th, 2010)

I refer to my calendar a lot during the day, but I don't always have my calendar program running. Most of the time I just want to glance at something to confirm the time/date of an upcoming event, or just double check a date: "What is the last Sunday in May? Oh right, the 30th." It occurred to me ...

New Mobile Google Calendar on the iPhone too

by Jason Clarke (Apr 8th, 2009)

Hot on the heels of the new version of Gmail Mobile for the iPhone comes a new mobile version of Google Calendar leveraging some of the same technology. The previous iteration was frustratingly feature-poor, allowing you only to view your appointments and add new ones using a natural language ...

BusyMac announces BusyCal

by Christina Warren (Jan 5th, 2009)

BusyMac, makers of the awesome BusySync, has just announced its newest offering: BusyCal. BusySync is a great way to share and sync calendars across a LAN and sync with Google Calendar. BusyCal is a calendar application with the BusySync technology baked in. The screenshots have BusyCal looking very ...

CalDAV support comes to Google Calendar

by Christina Warren (Jul 28th, 2008)

I'm a pretty big user of Google Calendar, because I like how I can automatically sync it with my BlackBerry. The problem for me has been that on my desktop, I really prefer iCal's interface. Syncing the two can be cumbersome. We've written about third-party programs that can sync iCal and gCal ...

BusySync 2 to include Google Calendar to iCal capability

by Michael Rose (Jan 14th, 2008)

If you're iCal-based for your scheduling needs and you want to share calendars with family or colleagues, you're probably already hip to BusySync and the delights of iCal syncing Mac-to-Mac without a .Mac account. Now the BusySync team has announced a key feature for 2.0, shipping in February: ...

TUAW Tip: Google Calendar works well on your iPhone

by David Chartier (Aug 21st, 2007)

Yesterday my co-blogger Dave Caolo was lamenting the fact that there's no easy way to get his iPhone and Google Calendar to sync (although purchasing Spanning Sync is certainly an option). While it is true that the iPhone's Calendar app only syncs with iCal on a Mac (or, via this trick, Entourage ...

Plaxo 3.0 is available

by Dave Caolo (Jun 25th, 2007)

Plaxo is an online address book and calendar manager that can synchronize your information between Outlook, Google, Yahoo!, AIM, your Apple apps and more. Today they released version 3.0 which includes a number of improvements, like: Google Calendar synchronization Calender "countdowns" to ...

Google Notifier update brings 'Quick Add to Calendar' right-click menu

by David Chartier (Mar 30th, 2007)

A recent update to the official Google Notifier app has added a slick (and apparently Mac-only) feature that should make it easier to add events to Google Calendar while you work. A new "Quick Add to Google Calendar" contextal menu item does exactly what you might think - it allows you to ...

Spanning Sync for iCal and Google Calendar goes 1.0, announces pricing

by David Chartier (Mar 13th, 2007)

We've mentioned Spanning Sync, the first utility to truly sync iCal and Google Calendar, once or twice before, but until today it's been in that 'beta' status that's such a hit with the kids these days. As of this morning, however, beta is no more, for Spanning Sync has reached full 1.0 status and ...

Spanning Sync about to go 1.0

by David Chartier (Mar 7th, 2007)

Spanning Sync, the bi-directional syncing utility for iCal and Google Calendar we've been covering, has released public beta v1.0b16 on their blog. Aside from the typical fixes and updates, the more significant announcement here is the possibility that this might be the final beta before going 1.0. ...

gSync offers Google, iCal syncing

by Dave Caolo (Feb 19th, 2007)

iCal and Google Calender synchronization is something that many people want. We've recently looked at Spanning Sync, which gets the job done (Spanning Sync is currently in beta). Today, TUAW reader Jim has pointed out gSync, another application on the scene. I played with it briefly this morning, ...

Spanning Sync public beta re-opened

by David Chartier (Feb 5th, 2007)

Fellow Mac users looking to sync iCal and Google Calendar - rejoice! For the Spanning Sync crew have re-opened their public beta to one and all. After their servers buckled under their first attempt at opening up the beta, they had to shut down temporarily. Fortunately, Spanning Sync's own vendor ...