PlainSight Desktop Calendar for Windows

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Editors’ Review

Download.com staffAugust 9, 2013

As unpredictable as April showers, this weather-and-calendar application combines good looks with a quirky interface and irritating stability problems. Fundamentally, PlainSight Desktop Calendar is a simple desktop organizer. Double-clicking its system tray icon brings up an attractive desktop calendar with a choice of three skins. In addition, the program retrieves weather forecasts from the Web and displays them as small graphical overlays (clouds and suns, for instance) on the main calendar or as large icons on a separate weather calendar. The stylish graphics give a good first impression, but the interface is hugely frustrating. Double-clicking the system tray icon may display your calendar, but double-clicking again doesn't hide it. For some reason, setting window transparency to 0 percent makes the calendar invisible, rather than the other way around. The seven-day forecast doesn't display dates or the names of days, and some of the icons appear to be unavailable. As for the organizing functions, to enter a note you have to right-click the calendar and select Browse instead of just double-clicking a date. This calls up a different calendar view, where once again you have to right-click the day in question. Adding insult to injury, at this point in our tests the program displayed an "Invalid Class String" error and wouldn't let us proceed. Inexcusable. PlainSight Desktop Calendar is promising, but right now it makes us feel like someone rained on our parade.

PlainSight Desktop Calendar for Windows

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GENERAL

Release: August 10, 2013

Latest update: August 9, 2013

Version: 2.6.2.2

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Windows

Operating System

Windows XP
Windows 2000
Windows Vista
Windows 10

Additional Requirements: Outlook 2003 and later

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Total Downloads: 4,318

Downloads Last Week: 1

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User Reviews

3/5

2 User Votes

Great desktop calendar!
Jacky ShawMarch 16, 2006
Pros
This desktop calendar syncs beautifully with Outlook, and it worked perfectly with syncing back to my Pocket PC no matter where the changes were made (via the desktop calendar, directly in Outlook, or on the PDA). And I like the weather forecast feature, I can know weather in my city at a glance.
Cons
Many tasks will make the task window too big. It is better to add a scroll bar or something like that.
Summary
Good start but far from being ready to publish
piratelordJune 14, 2005
Pros
I liked it that you can set up reminders, it was really easy to figure out. I really like that it it a quick click and write application.
Cons
The program does have a glitch, the graphics mess up, once I lost the whole calender. You cannot easily make reminders or write messages for yourself in the future with out clicking through one month at a time. I wanted to put a little reminder up that my wedding is July next year and I had to click the next month option too many times to get there. I would also like to say that if you allow the end-user to delete info from the search, you should allow him/her to add an entry. Take it back and fix it.
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Developer’s Description

Display a calendar on your desktop and connect it to your personal data.

PlainSight Desktop Calendar is a great looking calendar which can be full integrated with wallpaper. It can stay on your desktop and show the days of current month. It can get data from Outlook and display them on the desktop. You can directly manipulate the data. It can also get weather forecasts from a weather information server. And it is a pretty looking calendar with different skins. High quality fonts are used in this calendar.