Active Desktop Calendar is fully customizable calendar features notes, tasks, alarms, and displays its data on your desktop through blending with existing wallpaper. You can organize your data in layers and share them with other people on a local area network. The program can integrate with Outlook and show its appointments and tasks on the desktop. If you synchronize your PDA device (Pocket PC, Palm, smartphone) with Outlook then through this connection you also get a synchronization with PDA as a side effect.
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. An alarm can be stand alone or attached to a note. If interactive desktop option is enabled, the program accepts direct clicks on dates, notes and tasks displayed on the desktop.
You can set each note to normal, private or invisible desktop view. Private notes are displayed as generic text reminder and invisible notes are not displayed at all. Printing calendar data is easy and includes an option to choose date range for printing notes.
Special desktop pictures option allows you to add some of your pictures to existing desktop background. Comma separated values .CSV format is supported for data export and import. Tablet PC users should not worry as the program detects desktop orientation changes automatically. Finally, Active Desktop Calendar comes with world clock screen saver that shows your computer's system time, plus five major time zones around the world.
Features:
- Blends data with desktop wallpaper
- Calendar, notes, tasks, alarms
- Many recurrence patterns for notes/alarms
- Interactive desktop interface
- Fully customizable (icons, fonts, colors)
- Data export/import/print (CSV supported)
- Each user profile has its own data set
- Detects Tablet PC desktop orientation
- Dual/multi monitor systems supported
- Group calendar data in layers
- Share data layers on a local area network
- Direct connection with Outlook?®
- Google?® calendar support
Supported OS: Win 98/2000/XP/Vista
What is new in Active Desktop Calendar 6.8:
- Automatic Data Backup
Starting with this version the program keeps all its settings and data in a single database file and comes with built-in backup functionality. The default backup folder is created under My Documents. You have options to change backup folder and choose how many backup copies the program should keep there as older backups are removed automatically when new backup is saved. If enabled the automatic backup is saved once a day and you can also save it manually at any time. To access backup options bring up Notes View and choose Backup option from the Data menu.
- Important info on this and future versions
Windows 98 platform is no longer supported and the program will refuse to install on it. Therefore the version 6.7 is the last one that works on Windows 98 computers. Additionally, common primary layer option had to be removed for technical reasons so that kind of data sharing is no longer available. If you were using this option then you will still have the data in a new Common data layer, but that layer will not be in sync with other users of that computer as it was the case before. All users of version 6.7 and older that upgrade to version 6.8 and later will experience data migration process during installation. During that process the program transfers all its settings and data to the new database file. The process is irreversible yet unavoidable if you want to upgrade.
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