Calendaring Software

August 23, 2005 9:04 AM

Calendaring Software?

I'm looking for a simple, color coded calendaring software. By simple, I mean Mac/PC compliant, with the added bonus of being shareable. Sounds easy?

Has anyone used any similar tools they can recommend? I love the look of iCal, and wish it were a PC compliant package (which, it may be in the very near future).

Thanks!

posted by jazzkat11 to Technology (9 answers total)

I love the calendar extension for Firefox. It's based on iCal. I don't recall offhand if it's shareable or not because I don't have it installed here at work, but it's worth a look.
posted by undertone at 9:12 AM on August 23, 2005

check out versiontracker.
posted by mecran01 at 9:20 AM on August 23, 2005

Sunbird (a stand alone calendar from the Mozilla family) is iCal compliant.

Combine it with Sunbird Tray for a really great product package.
posted by oddman at 9:22 AM on August 23, 2005

Response by poster: I like the functionality of the sunbird product, the deal killer for it is that it doesn't print in color, along with multi-line items..

Other than that, it seems like a nice software package.
posted by jazzkat11 at 9:38 AM on August 23, 2005

I would also like to know a good solution for this. Although more important for me is the sharability across multiple computers (PC).
posted by letterneversent at 10:18 AM on August 23, 2005

There's huge distinction here that is being missed. iCal and iCal(RFC 2445) are not the same. Thanks so much to Apple for stomping all over the terminology.

That said, Sundbird/Mozilla calendar will do webdav sharing of RFC 2445 compliant iCalendar files. iCal (the app) uses these. Sunbird also will allow you to write other people's files which works great unless you modify one created with iCal (the app) because the "master" copy will overwrite the server. This isn't really sharing in the sense of sharing but instead is pure publish and subscribe.

That said, shared calendaring is much better accomplished with MeetingMaker or the much maligned Microsoft Exchange.

If you only need cross platform file compatibility Sunbird/Mozilla Calendar is really the only option.
posted by shagoth at 12:26 PM on August 23, 2005

I looked into the sunbird/ical biz and i just don't think it's quite ready for prime time.

I use a program for my business called now contact / up to date It's not free, but it's affordable, and quite tolerable.
posted by freq at 12:41 PM on August 23, 2005

Now Up-to-Date & Contact

Mac and Windows, moderately priced, fully shareable and been around forever. New version just out.

(disclaimer: day job)
posted by cptnrandy at 12:44 PM on August 23, 2005

I don't know if this is what you need, but I'm pretty happy with Palm Desktop, even though I don't have a Palm Pilot. It's free.
posted by muckster at 9:34 PM on August 23, 2005