Open-Source and Free Software

RE: Calendar Software

NCrabtree — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:14:00 GMT

Thanks for your reply. I also tried viewing their "cached" copy from Google and it looks like they are doing a MAJOR site overhaul. I now have my calendar back on my website, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed!
NC

RE: Calendar Software

MeganKeane — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:45:00 GMT

Hmm, a quick Google search didn't show anything about them going out of business. Some links on their site worked fine, but the search went really slow, which leads me to think that they might just be having server or site issues.

--Megan

RE: Calendar Software

NCrabtree — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:13:00 GMT

I have been using Localendar for 5 or 6 years now and suddenly...IT'S GONE. I'm hoping they are either updating or having server issues. Does anyone know? They haven't gone out of business have they?

RE: Calendar Software

ahz — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 03:51:00 GMT

For several months, I have actually been using Mozilla's Lightning Calendar extension for Thunderbird. It has significantly improved somewhere around 6-9 months ago. It's pretty usable for personal use. While today it is not ready to challenge Outlook in the enterprise, but I have high hopes for Lighting/Sunbird and Chandler in the next 12-24 months.

RE: Calendar Software

natrixgli — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 06:54:00 GMT

For non shared calendars: Mozilla Thunderbird with the Lightning extension is pretty good. It can subscribe to iCal calendars as well.

For shared calendars: Zimbra Collaboration Suite if you can host, if not then I recommend Gmail. You can configure it to receive/send mail for your domain for free, with almost 3gb of storage and shared calendars, documents, etc.

-n8

RE: Calendar Software

timyounglightsys — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:18:00 GMT

I use google calendar, and I like calgoo as an off-line google-calendar app. Calgoo currently works pretty well, though they are going through some growth from a beta-app to their for-fee model. Their free version works fairly well at the moment.

RE: Calendar Software

kfh099 — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:32:00 GMT

I think a good solution would be google.

With a google account you can download your corporate mail and use their calendar. The Calendar has a sharing function that seems to work well.

For a small office, it's hard not to want to do a hosted solution to save support time.

RE: Calendar Software

MeganKeane — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:58:00 GMT

I'm not sure if I understand your problem. Are you having trouble getting any of the article links and links from posts to load in your browser? Where are you copy and pasting html from? You can open link in same browser window by clicking the link. Or you can right-click the link to open in a new browser window (or tab, if you're using Firefox or Internet Explorer 7).

Let me know if that answered your question or if I misunderstood.

Best,

Megan

RE: Calendar Software

umich — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 01:58:00 GMT

Hi - This was a helpful article, but for some reason, when I copy and paste the HTML onto my Wordpress blog, all i get is a microsecond glimpse of the calendar, and then it disappears. Am I missing something here? Do I need an RSS feed? It happens for google, localendar, and spongecell...

amateur here! thanks for any help!

RE: Calendar Software

eleland — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 22:38:00 GMT

Great article. I have also found RSS Calendar easy to use and to incorporate on websites.

- Eric

RE: Calendar Software

bsatterfield — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 04:13:00 GMT

Bob,

Thanks for the note, glad you found something you could use in the article.

RE: Calendar Software

bchapman@lan2wan.com — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:04:00 GMT

Thanks to your recent article I am now using the free web based calendar at www.localendar.com . It was extreamly easy to set up and updates are a snap. I love it.

Bob

[updated to fix URL link]

Calendar software article on TechSoup

wcook — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:47:00 GMT

For those of you who have come to this thread through the forums, TechSoup has just published an article on the subject, Three Free, Easy Ways to Add a Calendar to Your Web Site, where we explain how Web calendars work and describe the features of Google Calendar, Localendar, and Spongecell.

After reading it, share your feedback here.

RE: Calendar Software

EvilNetworkOverlord — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 06:30:00 GMT

"But I suggest not explaining anything. Just show it to them. Or if you have found something really good, just say, "This is the new system."

ahz,

With all the time and effort we put into technical detail and precision, it's very sad that we so often have to resort to "tactics" of any kind.

But I agree. Sometimes you just have to say, "Here it is".

-ENO

RE: Calendar Software

Susan_Tenby — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 22:18:00 GMT

We just added a few to the free downloads section. I use Palm Desktop. It's in the section, it's free, and it does the job for me.

HTH,

Susan