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- Price: Free to try (42-day trial); $19.90 to buy (Buy it now)
- Operating system: Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: February 04, 2005
- Total Downloads: 445,636
- Downloads last week: 1,096
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 102 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This feature-rich program places an unobtrusive calendar on your Desktop. You quickly can access your tasks and see details of upcoming events by double-clicking on the day or in the sidebar. Active Desktop Calendar supports multiple users, using layers to store their profiles. You can connect to other people's calendars via LAN to see changes in their schedule, and you also can have the application display your Outlook information. The utility doesn't consume much memory, especially considering all the cool stuff it does.
We noticed a few shortcomings in this overall excellent program. While the window for adding a new note contains a subject line and a body field, only the subject-line text appears on the calendar and the sidebar. You can switch among several desktop images and set the program as the default screensaver, but we weren't impressed by the performance of these features. The images don't stretch or tile, and the screensaver only displays the time and a line of text. Despite this, the functionality and design of Active Desktop Calendar make it useful for home and business users.
Publisher's description
From XemiComputers :This fully customizable calendar features notes, tasks, alarms, and displays its data on your desktop through integration with existing wallpaper. You can organize your data in layers and share them with other people on a local network. There are options for changing calendar icons, fonts, and colors, marking weekdays of choice and marking dates with notes and/or alarms. You can have a text-only version of the calendar and choose between displaying one, two, or three months on the desktop. Recurrence patterns are available for both notes and alarms. If the interactive-desktop option is enabled, the program accepts direct clicks on dates, notes, and tasks.
Printing calendar data includes an option to choose a date range for printing notes. CSV format is supported for data export and import. Finally, Active Desktop Calendar has its own screensaver with a real-time clock. Version 4.8 comes with the option to include tasks marked as done when printing the list of tasks.
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3 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: Active Desktop Calendar 4.8
"A vry bad program which takes lots of memory"
Pros: Small program to download
Cons: Uses lots of memory
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Active Desktop Calendar 4.8
"It makes the most practical use of the Windows desktop that I have seen."
Pros: I had been searching on and off for a few days and when I found ADC and tried it I was delighted. It is almost perfectly what I was looking for and even better than I could have imagined such a program. It is without a doubt much better any other program of its kind that I have tried to date.
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Active Desktop Calendar 4.8
Pros: have not used it yet
Cons: have not used it yet
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