my365 For iPhone: Apply Filters, Share Photos & Pin Them To Calendar

my365 is an iOS app that has grown quite rapidly in popularity despite being associated with two of the most crowded categories in the App Store; photo editing and social networking. The reason for its popularity might be the perfect blend of these fields that it offers. The app allows you to browse photos from your friends and other users and has a pretty thorough photo editor (including quite a lot of filters). In addition, you can pin every photo you snap with my365 to a particular date on the built-in calendar. For more on these features, read on past the break. Read More

Day-O Adds Customizable Clock And Calendar To Mac Menu Bar

Day-O is menu bar clock for Mac OS X that provides users with what native Mac OS X menu bar clock doesn’t – a pop-up calendar. Not only does it add Windows system tray like calendar to Mac OS X menu bar, it also allows you to change the way digital clock appears. You can customize the AM/PM position and add custom text/characters to make hours, minutes and AM/PM text look prominent. Although Mac OS X native menu bar clock comes with both digital and analog versions, it doesn’t allow configuring clock text and layout. Day-O, in contrast, is highly configurable menu bar digital clock, allowing you to define text that you want to show alongside the clock. Read More

CodeTwo NetCalendars: Create Group Calendar To Let Network Users Collaborate On Tasks

Need to share details of office appointments, events, meetings and work schedule with your team members but don’t want the fuss of having to manually manage and update each event? CodeTwo NetCalendars is an application to streamline the management of office appointments, events and schedules that you want to share with others. It lets you create a group calendar, which can be accessed by your team members connected on network. Not only can you share the calendar with others, but you can also allow your team to work on it at the same time. Once the calendar is shared on network, users can access it, make changes to events, create new events and update the existing appointments. It automatically syncs all the changes made to calendars, so that you won’t have to manually open the calendar from shared location to view the latest event details. Read More

Calendar Silencer: Sync Calendar Events & Schedule Sound Profiles For Each

Looking for a task management app that automatically syncs events from multiple calendars and puts your device into silent/ringer mode for selective scheduled events? Developed by XDA Developer’s member Swarly, Calendar Silencer is an Android app that might put an end to your search. Apart from serving said purpose effectively, the app provides its users with an option to create, edit and schedule custom events, exclude syncing/scheduling events from calendar that contain specific keywords and manually enable/disable silent mode for specific events. Read More

DesktopCal Calendar – Create Events, Schedule Tasks & Change Wallpaper

The default Windows calendar located in the system tray is quite handy for viewing current month and navigating between months and years, but doesn't provide other options to set reminders, create and schedule events, etc. DesktopCal is a desktop calendar application which lets you add custom shortcuts, events, and reminders.  It completely blends in with your wallpaper and enables adding quick notes (when you double-click on a specific date). DesktopCal can use your current wallpaper as its background or loop through images from a specified directory to update the desktop background periodically. By default, it takes less than half of your screen size which is sufficient for viewing purposes. In case you find the default size to be undesirable, you can resize it according to your screen dimensions. It supports adding files, folders and shortcuts to date boxes along with small notes, which makes it easier to remember important tasks. Read More

Quick Event For Android Converts Simple Text Into Calendar Events

Ever since I laid my hands on my first Android device, one of the few things that really had me flustered was the Calendar application and its many features. The large number of separate fields that have to be filled just to add a simple meeting with one of your friends to the calendar can turn out to be quite a hassle and can easily distract you from the actual purpose itself. Quick Event for Android is an intelligent app that extracts all the required parameters (date, time, duration, location etc.) for a calendar event from simple text entered by the user and adds them to their respective fields within the native calendar. Effectively, Quick Event works in the same way as Google Calendar’s much-applauded Quick Add feature. Read More

Smart Desktop Adds Important Shortcuts In Tabs On Your Desktop

Smart Desktop is a dynamic application to overhaul your desktop by replacing your desktop shortcuts with a feature rich overlay menus. It contains weather, calendar and system monitoring widgets, as well as time and date display. The system monitoring widget contains information regarding CPU and RAM utilization, Network traffic and used disk space. Numerous shortcuts within the Home tab are divided into convenient sub-tabs which allow easy access to browsers, MS Office programs, Google Search, Dictionary Search, media players, system utilities, Windows accessories, etc. Similarly, the Weblinks tab from the top of the interface provides quick access to commonly used search engine, social media, news and other related websites. Smart Desktop seems to be a viable replacement for the previously reviewed Rainmeter. Smart Desktop can not just be a good replacement for multiple application shortcuts on the desktop, but also a useful way of monitoring essential system components such as the CPU and memory utilization. Read More

Free-Time For iOS Tells Your Friends When You’re Free

Having trouble planning get-togethers with your friends or scheduling meetings with your co-workers? Free-Time for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad provides a new way to tell your friends when you’re free. The app takes data from your calendar application, couples it with your pre-defined daily routine and displays intervals where you are free, allowing you to copy the info to clipboard or share it with your friends via SMS or email. And that’s not all. The app lets you determine times when when both you and a friend are free simply by bumping devices together. The app is relatively new to the App Store and is far from perfect. However, for the new concept it brings to the table and the flexibility it incorporates into its implementation, we give it a well-deserved thumbs up. Read More

View Mac iCal Events From Menu Bar With Calendar

If you hate to launch iCal each time from dock just to view and create events, try out freshly baked Calendar. It’s a miniscule menu bar application which not only puts iCal events in menu bar but shows complete calendar with marked events to quickly find all the scheduled tasks. The application has the capacity to synchronize with iCal default and customized calendars events. Since iCal differentiates between two calendars, lets say, work and home calendars by colors, you will get to see events scheduled in both iCal calendars on Calendar in separate categories. Read More

Create Calendar Events On Android With Audio & Photos Using ClickCal

Creating calendar events and managing them on your Android device has been made a whole lot cooler, thanks to ClickCal. One often finds oneself in a hurry while adding an event on the go, only to end up in a tedious battle with the virtual keyboard. With ClickCal, not only can you add events simply by taking photos of any related documents or webpages etc., but you can record an audio and add it to your event as well, removing the need to enter descriptions or anything. Read on for screenshots and how to use the app. Read More

Fully Customize Your Windows Desktop Background With SE-DesktopConstructor

SE-DesktopConstructor is a dynamic tool that can be used to completely customize your desktop background. It allows you to automatically change desktop wallpapers after a set period of time (with selected images, solid colors, color gradient, etc), place a clock and calendar on the desktop with several customizable designs, color areas of icons, and so on. Although Windows 7 does have some of these features by default, the customization options are limited as compared to what this application has to offer. Read More

Clock On Tray Extends Windows 7 Default System Tray Clock [Giveaway]

Clock On Tray is a complete Windows system tray clock and calendar extension. By default, system tray clock does not provide many options except some basic functionality. Also most developers do not bother giving attention to this part of Windows. This nifty little application hosts a great deal of features, tools, and different options which abets user in carrying out diverse tasks and also to schedule them promptly with an intuitive alarm system deployed within. It comes with some beautiful visually aesthetic themes which helps a user in customizing the system clock to match Windows theme. Read More

Bring Outlook 2010 Inbox, Contacts, Calendar, Notes, And Tasks On Desktop

Outlook On The Desktop is an extremely useful application which brings the most important Outlook 2010 items including Calendar, Inbox, Tasks, Notes, and Contacts, right on the desktop. Since opening Outlook 2010 application each time to view Calendar, Inbox, Contacts, etc., is nuisance-driving, this innovative application eliminates the need of navigating through Outlook to access these items and offers a simple desktop solution. Previously we have reviewed a tool called DeskTask which only brings calendar and tasks on the desktop, Outlook on The Desktop puts the whole email client on the Windows Desktop. Read More

Stick Applications On Windows Desktop As Widgets

Stick is a simple utility which is designed to stick multiple windows on the desktop as widgets (called screentabs) to keep customized folder explorers, web browsers, notes, and RSS feeds window always open for quick access. The screentabs supports full customization and let you change the overall look of the sticky windows. You can change the size, transparency depth, color, tabs themes, and play around with whole lot of other features and options. Read More

RM3Full: A Simple Event Management Tool With Calendar Overview

Do you count yourself in forgetful ones who always miss out important events, such as, birthdays, anniversaries, meetings and other schedules. If yes, then RMP (Remind Me Please) can lend a helping hand. It is a small reminder with lot of options & features to let you remind about an event on specified date/time. What make it distinctive from other reminder programs is neat interface & simple usage. It also contains a simple to-do list manager with an option of printing the tasks list. Read More

Calme: Create Beautiful Printable Calendars For Free

Despite the fact that almost every PIM (Personal Information Manager) software carries calendar to let user easily schedule tasks, meetings and appointments, they severely lack full calendar customization support. Considering this downside, Calme, however, is not a PIM software but allows to you make a fully-customized calendar & planner in hardcopy. It holds multitude of options & features to create an intriguing and flamboyant calendars. Read More

Easily Create And Organize Events With Doodle

People who work in corporate setups or in any such capacity where they get to use Microsoft Exchange, often praise the convenience it brings to their lives by making appointments easy to manage. With shared calendars and information, you never have to worry about your participants availability, their schedules, etc, because these things are taken care of automatically. But what if you do not have the luxury of Microsoft Outlook/Exchange? What if the event in question is a personal one, between friends? How do you judge people’s availability in such a case? Read More

Install Windows Calendar In Windows 7

A couple of days back I posted about a Windows sidebar widget that showed appointments from Windows Calendar right on the desktop. While useful enough for Windows Vista users, Nakodari was kind enough to point out that Windows 7 did not by default come with the Calendar bundled. Since I had indicated in my post that it was possible to use Windows Calendar on Windows 7 as well, I thought it better to have a guide on how to do that. Read More

Monitor Windows Calendar Appointments From Your Desktop

One of the best bundled application in Windows Vista was the Windows Calendar. With its wonderful syncing abilities, flexibility and ease of use, it was a top choice amongst users, and the decision to take it off in Windows 7 was certainly not well received. Time Keeper is a sidebar gadget for Windows Vista and 7 that relies on Windows Calendar, and brings a neat feature to your desktop. Read More