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Design Your Own Photo Calendar In Windows, Mac & Linux With Pically

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An album is about the past and a calendar is about the future, but that doesn't mean they have to be mutually exclusive. A great way to combine looking forward to the time ahead while reminiscing your glory days from the past is to make your very own picture calendar with Pically. Pick out one favorite photo for each month, add holidays and special occasions, print the resulting calendar, and hang itin front of you – a portrait of what you have been, and a canvas for what you may yet become. The java-based app is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. Details to follow. Read More

Easily Transfer Contacts & Calendar Events Among iOS Devices Over WiFi

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The fact that iCloud has the capability to keep your contacts and calendar entries synced across multiple iOS devices might have contributed towards repressing the development of alternative ways to get your personal data transferred to a new device whenever you purchase a new iPhone or iPad. In case you keep all your contacts and reminders synced with a cloud service, this isn’t much of a problem, but if your data is scattered across multiple services or is only available offline, shifting from one device to another can be a real headache, even if the newer one is an iDevice as well. In the past, we have seen solutions like securedContacts, which lets you export your entire address book as a CSV file, but this option only works for jailbroken devices and requires a few extra steps even then. With Device Switch, you don’t need to sign up for any account or perform any complicated procedure; all it takes is a Wi-Fi connection, a few taps and you are done transferring your address book and calendar events to your new iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Read More

Osito Brings Google Now-Like Traffic, Weather & Event Alerts To iPhone

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When it was initially released, Sherpa gained a lot of acclaim as many iOS users felt that the app brings the best bits of Google Now to iOS. As great as the app was, it was still in its beta until now. Things have finally changed though, and Sherpa has shed its beta tag. Not only that; the team behind the service has also decided to rebrand it to Osito. For those who didn't use the app previously, Osito analyzes your activities, location and calendar entries to come up with highly personalized notifications that can help you in a number of situations. The best thing about Osito is that you don’t have to configure the app to send you notifications; it does all the work automatically, and makes sure you are never late for an appointment or in danger of missing a flight. Read More

Auto-Open Files, Apps Or Scripts On Mac When A Calendar Event Is Due

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One of the things I love about well-built reminder apps - like the stock Reminder app in iOS - is that alerts can be triggered not just by time but by location as well. While the Reminder app in iOS has only limited choices as to what can trigger an alert, there are other apps available that give you a richer choice. As far as triggers are concerned, you will find apps supporting quite a variety of them, but alerts are a different story, and are often limited in type; you’ll get an audio alert, or a notification on your screen but there seemingly isn't much else that can be done. The stock Calendar app in OS X is pretty smart when it comes to alerts; not only does it give you audio alerts and on-screen notifications, but it will also allow you to open a particular file when an event is due. Read on to see how it works. Read More

Kahootz: Create, Share & Follow Calendars; Import Facebook & Google Events

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Birthdays are normally the only events that I find hard to remember; for everything else, there are post-it notes or reminders set on my phone. The easiest way to remember birthdays is, of course, Facebook. The other important events in my life I commit to memory, and hope I don’t forget any one of them. This approach won’t work for everyone and, on occasion, it fails me too. Kahootz is the first web app ever to compel me to use an online calendar for tracking all my important events. It imports events from both Google Calendar and Facebook, and allows you to create calendars as well as events. You can invite people to your events, and follow the calendars they've created. Kahootz gives you the option to add reminders to your events and create as many calendars as you want. Events and calendars can be either public or private. Read More

Event Book Is A Calendar App For iPhone With Weather, Maps & A Flipboard-Like UI

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You can find all sorts of feature-rich third-party apps for your iPhone, but if there is a stock app already there for it, most people prefer to stick with that. Many good to-do and task list apps have failed to make their mark because people are rarely willing to part with all the data they have stored on their existing calendars. Event Book is perfect for those of us who want to get a taste of something new without sacrificing the use of all the services synced with the stock Calendar app. The app displays all your appointments and upcoming events from every calendar service associated with your iPhone. It also shows you the current weather conditions on its main page, and you can embed location data pinned on maps in all the events you create within Event Book. Read More

Easily Mail All Attendees Of A Calendar Event On iOS With ‘Reply To All’

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Organizing a successful event requires frequent correspondence among the host and invitees. Trying to make a new mailing list for every new event is not very practical, and leaves room for some contacts getting left out from the correspondence. There are third-party apps that offer some pretty neat solutions to this problem, but most people prefer using the stock Calendar app in their everyday routine. Reply To All is a really simple app that lets you mail all the contacts that have been invited to a particular event. Reply To All uses the stock Calendar and Mail apps to ensure that you aren’t forced to switch to a new email client or calendar to get such a simple functionality. Read More

InFocus Pro: iOS Project Management Suite With A Sketch Pad For Notes

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It’s always nice to see a feature-rich app, but when an app offers way too many unrelated features, people seldom like it. A successful app strikes a fine balance between being full of useful features while maintaining an acceptable level of understandability. You might be tempted to think that InFocus Pro tries to do too much, but all the features it offers are interconnected in one way or the other. Basically, InFocus Pro is a project management app incorporating task lists, notes, sketches and calendar appointments for each project. There might be other apps available for iOS that do the same things, but InFocus has the advantage of accepting handwritten entries for almost any field. It is also possible to make the app read your notes and lists out loud. Read More

View iCloud, Google Or Yahoo Calendar Events On OS X Desktop With ICEfree

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One of our top Mac apps from last year was Mindfu - a $1.99 productivity app that puts the day’s iCal (Calendar in Mountain Lion) events on your desktop in an elegant chronological timeline. Though if you aren’t in the mood for spending money on an app like that, ICUfree is a free alternative now available on the Mac App Store. At the core, it does what Mindful does but in addition, it can display events up to 3 months in advance. The app gives you the choice to view events from your local, iCloud Google, or Yahoo! calendars, though at present, you can only view events from one type of calendar at a time. Currently happening events and those that are coming up are all distinguished from each other. Read More

Calendar Pro: All-In-One Journal, To-Do List & Notes App For Android

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If your daily routine involves handling and keeping track of a lot of events, to-do lists, tasks, notes and reminders etc. on the move, you might be in search of a comprehensive personal schedule management app for your smartphone. Cloud sync support and an intuitive interface are two important aspects to consider for such an app, and those are exactly what Calendar Pro delivers. Fresh to the Play Store, Calendar Pro aims to be the only calendar and personal journals, notes, to-do lists, reminders, events and activity management app you’ll ever need on your Android device. Sporting an uncluttered UI, the app comes with Google Calendar and Facebook integration to let you sync your events and friends' birthdays. In addition, it also comes with extensive weather details for multiple locations, horoscopes, themes, a unified view for daily activities, and plenty of other options. Read More

Sync Google Calendar With Windows 8 Calendar App

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Most of us these days use a calendar to organize the tasks in our life. If you also use a calendar, you might need it with you most of the time. The one I use is Google Calendar. Since I'm on Windows 8, and there's a pretty awesome calendar app pre-installed, I would want my Google Calendar events to appear in my Windows 8 Calendar app (and I know you want to do the same!). Let's see how it's done. Read More

Add Upcoming Facebook Events And Birthdays To Calendar

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If you linked your Facebook account to your Mac running OS X 10.8.2, Mountain Lion, you would have noticed there was an option to import your Facebook friends to the Contacts (previously called Address Book) app. As far as automatically importing data from your Facebook account to Mountain Lion goes, this is the full extent of it. There is still other information, like Facebook events that you could do with viewing in Calendar (formerly known as iCal) but there isn’t an apparently easy way to do it. It is extremely easy to import your Facebook events to Calendar and the process only seems obscure because you can’t import them to Mountain Lion from Calendar; rather, you have to export them from Facebook to Calendar. You’ll need to open Facebook in your browser on Mac, not necessarily Safari, but you will need to be using your Mac. This isn’t something you can do by accessing Facebook on your iOS device. Read More

Add Events To OS X Calendar Directly From Conversation In Messages App

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OS X is a very smart operating system and you don’t really realize that unless you start paying attention to the minor details and minute functionalities it has at the system level. One of the intelligent functions you might have observed if you use the stock Mail app is that it detects date and time. It creates a connection between the Mail and the Calendar app and allows you to record an event on the said date directly from the Mail app. This same functionality exists in the Messages app; should you find yourself talking to friends and family deciding dinner, a co-worker discussion a meeting time, or just someone reminding you to take your dog to the vet, if the date and time of the "event’ is mentioned in the conversation, you can create a Calendar event from it within Messages. Read More

Rainlendar Is A Stylish, Customizable Calendar And To-Do List Manager

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I have a very bad habit of forgetting important events and tasks. For this very reason, I keep a tab on my daily agenda using task managers and to-do list apps. I have used various web, desktop and smartphone apps, all of which have always come in handy to manage my tasks. If you’re in the hunt of finding an elegant yet easy to use task manager utility for Windows, take Rainlendar for a spin. It’s a calendar and tasks based utility that sits right on your desktop. This fully customizable calendar allows you to add widgets with changeable skins, mark events, create tasks, and get notified instantly whenever an event is near or a task is due. Since it can be started during system startup, you can take a peek at your schedule the moment you logon to Windows. Read More

iWidgets: Clock, Weather & Other Interactive Widgets For The iPhone Home Screen

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If you are a fan of home screen widgets, Android is by far the most suitable platform for you. Having said that, it’s just not like iOS developers to give up without a fight, and over time, there have been some pretty good attempts at bringing widgets to the Springboards of jailbroken iDevices (the most popular being Dashboard X). The biggest hurdle in the way of such tweaks is the compatibility of widgets. iWidgets is yet another Cydia tweak that lets you pin interactive widgets to your jailbroken iPhone’s Springboard, but it has a slight edge over its competitors in that it deals with HTML widgets, making it easier for other developers to publish widgets that are compatible with iWidgets. To get you started, iWidgets comes with two widgets, the dashboard clock and calendar from Mac OS X. Read More

PubMyCal: Manage & Share Your Google Calendar With Just A Click [Web]

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While dealing with extensive work loads and faced with the challenge of efficient task management in teams, it is quite useful for professionals to jot down time-relevant events overlaid in a user-friendly calendar simplifying access. The online interface allows portability and access from any device that can be used to sign in and manage challenges. For instance, you want your assistant to fully access the calendar configured according to your requirements while you stay away on vacations. PubMyCal is a simple web application that allows you to easily share calendar lists, which are maintained using Google Docs. In simple words, the fully loaded Google Calendar gets imported to this portal, for sharing beyond this domain ensuring ease of access, resource management and alerts. This can then be shared with friends and colleagues through email, instantly. Read More

InstaCC: Get Photography Challenges & View Instagram Images On A Calendar [iPhone]

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If you like photo effects and filters, there are iOS apps that offer more variety than Instagram. If you like photo sharing, you are sure to find networks that have more reach than Instagram. However, if you combine both these features into one app, you begin to understand the reason behind Instagram’s popularity. People love Instagram due to its intuitive interface and the way photo sharing works in the app’s own network. Although the official Instagram app is pretty good, that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for third-party clients of the service. Having iPhone apps like InstaCC provides Instagram fans with an alternative way of browsing through their photo feeds. Not only that, InstaCC also spices up things by providing users with different photo challenges to capture their imagination. At times, everyone is bound to run out of ideas about photos they should post over their network, and InstaCC will help you get over this mental block by suggesting topics for photos. Read More

Moments For Windows Phone: Keep A Journal & Back It Up To The Cloud

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Although the habit of keeping journals has gone somewhat out of fashion in recent times, you can’t deny the benefits and positives that diary-writing can bring to life. Even if you don’t plan to publish your memoirs one day, they can still prove to be an absorbing read for your loved ones, and you can also use them as letters to your future self. Having said that, it is no mean feat to maintain a proper paper diary in today’s fast-paced life. Fortunately, that’s where smartphones can prove to be your best friends. Moments is a WP7 app that you can use to create short entries to record your moods and thoughts at any particular point in time. The best thing about the app, apart from its beautiful interface, is the fact that it really makes your journal everlasting, and backs everything up to the cloud. Read More

D7 For Android: Calendar-Based To-Do List Manager With Metro UI

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The Metro UI has amassed a lot of praise for its elegant and functional interface, and rightly so, for it surpasses most other smartphone OS when it comes to aesthetics. Although there are plenty of Android apps designed using elements of said UI, if you’re looking for a Metro-styled to-do list manager, look no further than D7. Dipped in pure Metro flavors, D7 brings several simple-to-use features to expedite your routine task management. Unlike most to-do list management apps, D7 employs a calendar interface to help you easily create new to-do tasks for relevant days. In addition, the app supports various swipe gestures to let you navigate to the required date/day on the calendar, and to let you mark tasks as done/complete. That’s not all; you can also change the app’s theme color according to your liking, and set custom images as the background for tiles of as many as three different days of the week. Read More

days For iPhone & iPad Reminds You Of & Counts Down To The Days Left To Any Event

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days is a reminders app for iOS, but there are a lot of those already out there, aren't there? So, what makes it special when there are thousands of other to-do apps in the App Store, and since iDevices even have a stock Reminders app that is pretty good. days is different from all these owing to the fact that it doesn’t remind you of your tasks just at the eleventh hour, it builds up to each event, counting down the number of days to go. It is also a useful app if you want to quickly calculate the exact age of any event or person, and the app certainly has the potential of becoming your default to-do list. Read More