CalendarReview

Sarah Perez of ReadWriteWeb reviewed Outlook connector: “For anyone who uses multiple calendars, you know that one of the big issues that’s being addressed by numerous applications is getting your calendars to sync up with each other. We’ve covered some solutions to this problem before, but we had not seen a truly integrated offering that allowed you to sync up a work calendar in desktop software with an onlne calendar without need of a third-party app of some sort…that is, until yesterday. It seems that Microsoft has finally given the people what they want and have provided a calendar sync tool that actually makes all of Microsoft’s calendaring programs work together.” Read teh whole article here.

Presdo just launched their new, innovative event scheduling tool. According to the website, Presdo “takes the hassle out of trying to find the best time to get together with people. Use Presdo to minimize the annoying ping pong of email, texting, and voicemail when organizing the next team lunch or trying to grab coffee with a friend. ”

Presdo is entirely web-based and has a simple natural language interface for entering the information needed to create events. It can export events to many calendars, such as Microsoft Outlook, Google Calendar, Yahoo Calendar, and Apple iCal.

The company was started by one of LinkedIn’s founders.

Online travel organization startup TripIt will today release some new features that aim to further simplify booking travel online. TripIt now syncs itineraries with any personal calendar that supports iCal, including Google Calendar, Outlook 2007, Plaxo, and others. What this means is that TripIt users no longer need to manually update their calenders with trip information; TripIt now does it all, adding details such as flights, hotels, rental cars, restaurant reservations to supported apps.

SyncMyCal released SyncMyCal Mobile, a Pocket Outlook-Google calendar sync tool for PDA’s and SyncMyCal 1.8. With SyncMyCal Mobile, you can manage all your calendars, keep yourself updated and in touch with your family and friends, anytime, anywhere. It allows you to synchronize your Pocket Outlook’s calendar with your Google calendar, over the air, and hence keeps you updated and in touch. SyncMyCal Mobile can presently be used with Windows Mobile 5.0.

Introducing the brand new OggSync Google Calendar Sync for Outlook, as well as enhanced new features in OggSync for Mobile.Now you can take charge of ALL aspects of your life while at the same time keeping them separate! Combined with the power of Google Calendar, OggSync for Outlook and OggSync for Mobile allows you to share information with those who need to see it while at the same time giving you a full unified view of your scheduled life!

Stop sharing your calendar, Start sharing your availability is the Availitime motto.

Think of AvailiTime as instant messenger for your availability. Just add your calendar and invite your contacts. The private details of your calendar are kept safe and secure while your contacts can see when you are available.

You control what portions of your calendar are shared. Only available to vendors in the afternoon? AvailiTime lets you manage that. Evenings reserved for friends and family? Done. Works for Outlook, Lotus Notes, Google Calendar and Salesforce.com

Have you ever wondered why it’s such a pain in the butt to use calendaring programs on your computer? It’s simple: they don’t mimic their real life counterparts very well. People who use calendars to organize their daily lives have them visible in plain sight nearly all of the time. Yet, on the computer, you have to go through a myriad of windows and clicks before you can even see your calendar. So to bridge the gap, I’ve come up with this little program that will place the Microsoft Outlook Calendaring system right on your desktop. The calendar object gets pinned to your desktop and stays there all the time in plain sight so you can always see what’s upcoming. Of course, the benefits don’t stop there … because it’s the actual Microsoft Outlook calendar, you get all it’s functionality, such as direct editing, drag and drop of files, etc. You have to see it to believe it.

Go to Michael Scrivo’s Outlook on the Desktop page 

For three weeks this March and April, Microsoft warns that users of its calendar programs “should view any appointments … as suspect until they communicate with all meeting invitees.”Wow, that’s sort of jarring - is something treacherous afoot?

Actually, it’s a potential problem in any software that was programmed before a 2005 law decreed that daylight-saving time would start three weeks earlier and end one week later, beginning this year.

The US congress decided that more early evening daylight would translate into energy savings.

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Go here (MS website) to solve this problem.

SyncMyCal syncs Outlook (2003 , 2007), Vista calendar and Google Calendar:

• Two-way calendar synchronization – Outlook to Google and Google to Outlook.
• Selective event synchronization through date range selection.
• Flexibility of publishing/not publishing private events in Outlook Calendar to Google Calendar.
• Multiple Google Calendars can be connected to single Outlook Calendar and vice versa.
• Support for Time zone differences in calendars through automatic schedule adjustment.
• Synchronize event information with your PDA (coming soon).

Company Blog:

• Syncmycal now supports "Contacts Synchronization"
• SyncMyCal features on PC World's “101 Fantastic Freebies” list
• SyncMyCal now supports Paypal as a payment option
• SyncMyCal now supports Full Category Sync
• SyncMyCal Mobile now supports Smartphones
• SyncMyCal 2.2.170 released: Now supports Dual interface operation
• Outlook 2007 compliant version of SyncMyCal 30Boxes released!
• SyncMyCal 30Boxes edition released
• 64 bit OS compliant versions of SyncMyCal rolled out
• SyncMyCal 2.1 - Now supports Color labels during synchronization
• SyncMyCal 2.0: Now supports Category based synchronization
• SyncMyCal Mobile and version 1.8
• Support for Outlook 2003 Basic Added
• Google Enterprise Apps Listing
• Windows Vista Support Added
• Outlook 2007 Support Added
• Google Code - Featured Projects: SyncMyCal
• SyncMyCal 1.5 RELEASED
• New version of SyncMyCal released
• Good Reviews - Part 2
• SyncMyCal 1.4 released
• SyncMyCal version 1.3 released
• SyncMyCal and 30 Boxes
• Good Reviews for SyncMyCal
• SyncMyCal releases a new version (1.2)

You can upload your Outlook Calendar and Contacts to your iPod, giving you portability to your info. Just follow this tech-recipe.