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Rainlendar 2.4 is available from http://www.rainlendar.net. The listof changes is to long to mention here but you can find the features here.

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A new Rainlendar version has been released: lots of bugs have been solved and some new features are introduced.

Rainlendar cannot read the Google calendar files directly from the net but it is possible to use a 3rd party tool for this. Here are quick instructions how to do it.

Rainlendar has released a new version: 2.0.2.
Here is the list of changes:

• Tooltip window didn’t accept any mouse input. Fixed.
• Fixed text margins in the tooltips in the legacy skins.
• Function keys didn’t work as hotkeys. Fixed.
• Added ‘/’, ‘.’ and ‘-’ characters to the white bitmap font in the Shadow4 skin.
• Added skinning instructions to the help.
• Strings with border effect were clipped. Fixed.
• Some legacy skins didn’t show the today item. Fixed.
• When editing an event the alarm dismiss is reset only if there are some changes to the alarm values.
• The until date in recurrence is automatically moved if it is before the start/due date.
• The repeat day was set incorrectly in the ics-file if a weekly recurring event’s start time was moved to another day because of timezone adjustment.
• All day events that were set on the start day of the DST spanned on two days. Fixed.
• Implemented a new time format parser.
• Some fixes to WeekNumberDelta feature sthat it doesn’t show negative/too large values.
• Alt+F4 crashed the application. Fixed.
• Added DisableShortcuts advanced options to disable all keyboard shortcuts (does not affect hotkeys).
• Added support for Asturian language.
• Fixed event list images in some of the legacy skins.
• Alarm sound set for an event was not played. Fixed.
• Added “Keep offline copy” option to network calendar.
• Fixed a hang when a recurring task was set to completed.
• Pre and post days were shown always in the Dec-Jan. Fixed.
• The Private-checkbox didn’t work. Fixed.
• Tooltips shouldn’t pop up anymore if the menu is open.
• Improvements to the legacy skin support.
• EventListShowComingEvents didn’t work from the advanced settings. Fixed.
• Removed Cleartype related code as it didn’t work very well.
• Importing ics files which doesn’t contain UIDs works now.
• Improved compatibility of the exported ics files.
• Remove button caused crash if no calendars were selected. Fixed.
• Added EventListAgeFromStartOfWeek to advanced options which defines how the weeks are shown in the event list header.

Lifehacker: Rainlendar is a slick-looking lightweight calendar and todo list which runs on your Windows desktop.

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What Rainlendar says about itself:

Rainlendar is a feature rich calendar application that is easy to use and doesn’t take much space on your desktop. The application is platform independent so you can run it both on Windows and on Linux. The appearance can be customized with skins and you can even mix different skins together.

It is possible to use Rainlendar with other calendar applications too. Rainlendar uses the standard iCalendar format to store its events and tasks so you can easily transfer them between applications. You can also subscribe to online calendars and see your Outlook appointments directly in Rainlendar.