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Calendar applications are everywhere, built into mobile phones, e-mail clients, and even e-mail services themselves. This integration is often handy, but for users who prefer a stand-alone, PC-based calendar, there's Desktop Events Planner. This basic calendar lets users keep track of what's going on right on their desktops, and it's a nice choice for those who don't need to share or remotely access their calendars.
The program's interface is plain, just a basic calendar that can float on the desktop or be minimized to the system tray. Despite the calendar's no-frills appearance, the program does offer a fair number of customizations, including options for adjusting color, menus, and time and date formats. Users can add events to the calendar by simply double-clicking on the appropriate day and choosing whether the event is a one-time occurrence or one that repeats weekly, monthly, or yearly. Reminders can be set to alert users to an upcoming event minutes, hours, or days beforehand. A backup feature lets users save the calendar's contents so that it can be restored in the event of a data loss, but we wished that the program let users select the destination of the backup so that the calendar could be saved, for example, to an external hard drive. The built-in Help file is brief but adequate. Overall, Desktop Events Planner works just fine, and we recommend it to users who need a stand-alone calendar. Users who want to share or sync their calendars, however, will need to look elsewhere.
Desktop Events Calendar installs and uninstalls without issues. We recommend this program to all users.
Editors' note: This is a review of the full version of Desktop Events Planner 2.3. The trial version is limited to 30 days.Publisher's Description
From Robertson Software Solutions:
Desktop Events Planner is a way to keep track of events such as business meetings, birthdays, anniversaries, or just about any event you want. It sits on your desktop to remind you of your events for the month. You can enter events as Today Only, Weekly, Monthly or Yearly, and set Reminders about any important events that you don't want to miss. Make it small, medium or large, and turn it into just a Title Bar with only the date showing. It stays out of your way, is simple to use, and very convenient.
What's new in this version: Version 2.5 revised to some of the options in the Preferences Dialog and removed the ability to automatically transfer the user Event file.
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"easy to use"
Version: Desktop Events Planner 1.3
Pros
seems fairly good so far.
Cons
it says something in the setup agreement about donating 10 dollars if you want to be able to print. easy to get around that. <print screen> copy to and print from PAINT.
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"awefull!!"
Version: Desktop Events Planner 1.3
Cons
every time you want to change something, you have to click the "help" button to read about which "F" key to push.
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"great"
Version: Desktop Events Planner 1.3
Pros
easy to use
Cons
nothing
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