My sister wants me to find an app/utility that will allow her to enter
calendar events such as birthdays and other anniversaries, and get reminders
without her having to do anything else! (We live in cities 500 miles apart)

She and my brother-in-law do not have MS Outlook. And do not want to buy
it.

I have no problem using an app named Calendar Creator, as I bring it up and
look ahead for events I need to do something about, such as create a
birthday card and mail it. My sister wants to be more passive, and have an
app that is more active.

Her ideal is some utility/app that will pop up on her Win XP desktop when
she boots up that will tell her of upcoming events that she has input
previously.

I suggested Google Calendar, but she says that there are too many steps that
she would have to take to use this functionality.

You may detect that I think that she is asking for too much, and may even be
lazy. But maybe, just maybe, there is a freeware/share/really cheap
app/utility that will meet her wants.

I have not found such a piece of software by my searches thus far.

Do you know of something that will meet her wishes?

rsl18 wrote:
> My sister wants me to find an app/utility that will allow her to enter
> calendar events such as birthdays and other anniversaries, and get
> reminders without her having to do anything else! (We live in cities 500
> miles apart)
>
> She and my brother-in-law do not have MS Outlook. And do not want to buy
> it.
>
> I have no problem using an app named Calendar Creator, as I bring it up
> and look ahead for events I need to do something about, such as create a
> birthday card and mail it. My sister wants to be more passive, and have
> an app that is more active.
>
> Her ideal is some utility/app that will pop up on her Win XP desktop when
> she boots up that will tell her of upcoming events that she has input
> previously.
>
> I suggested Google Calendar, but she says that there are too many steps
> that she would have to take to use this functionality.
>
> You may detect that I think that she is asking for too much, and may even
> be lazy. But maybe, just maybe, there is a freeware/share/really cheap
> app/utility that will meet her wants.
>
> I have not found such a piece of software by my searches thus far.
>
> Do you know of something that will meet her wishes?

I'd push Google again. It would work from everywhere, it would not care if
she was on her own computer, yours, a friends, a work computer or if hers
melted and she had to get a new one.

GMAIL, Google Apps, etc. Get the whole family on it - share calendars,
share documents, work on documents together, share picturtes - all on the
Internet, should be free. And I don't know what those 'steps' are she is
speaking of - but there will be steps for whatever calendar solution she
uses and at least for Google - it's one-time - no matter what happens to her
computer/her life/her data. It can email her reminders, text her reminders,
etc... etc.

Otherwise - what OS is she using, what email client is she using, etc?

And/Or have her use Google another way... *grin*
http://www.google.com/search?q=Calen...inder+freeware

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<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>My sister wants me to find an app/utility that will allow her to enter
>calendar events such as birthdays and other anniversaries, and get reminders
>without her having to do anything else! (We live in cities 500 miles apart)

Describes "UK's Kalender", and I use it. I keep it on a separate
partition with other stand alone programs (you don't need to install
it). While I've never had a need to use it, there is a network
feature.

site: http://freenet-homepage.de/ukrebs/

A view of mine; February, cause I have no appointments listed at that
time. The holidays can be toggled on or off.
http://i47.tinypic.com/25kmq2o.jpg the entire program (Plus 15
backups) is just over 3 Megs.

I noticed that it's been upgraded + .1 from my version, I don't have
that side bar shown in the snapshot on the site. Going to have to
update mine as well.


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(E-Mail Removed) said this on 12/27/2009 8:32 PM:
> My sister wants me to find an app/utility that will allow her to enter
> calendar events such as birthdays and other anniversaries, and get reminders
> without her having to do anything else! (We live in cities 500 miles apart)
>
> She and my brother-in-law do not have MS Outlook. And do not want to buy
> it.
>
> I have no problem using an app named Calendar Creator, as I bring it up and
> look ahead for events I need to do something about, such as create a
> birthday card and mail it. My sister wants to be more passive, and have an
> app that is more active.
>
> Her ideal is some utility/app that will pop up on her Win XP desktop when
> she boots up that will tell her of upcoming events that she has input
> previously.
>
> I suggested Google Calendar, but she says that there are too many steps that
> she would have to take to use this functionality.
>
> You may detect that I think that she is asking for too much, and may even be
> lazy. But maybe, just maybe, there is a freeware/share/really cheap
> app/utility that will meet her wants.
>
> I have not found such a piece of software by my searches thus far.
>
> Do you know of something that will meet her wishes?
>
>
>

Look at "Active Desktop Calendar". Its not free. But I like it, it
has no 'reminders' but the notes (or events like doctor visits etc) are
all display on the wallpaper down the right side of your desktop. And
are updated all the time, so obviously the top item is the next event
you have to take care of. You can make layers for different purposes,
I use one for family birthdays etc, one for Nascar races, one for doctor
visits etc. You can turn each layer on or off if you wish, and make
different events different colors.
http://www.xemico.com/adc/screenshots.html

<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
news:(E-Mail Removed):

> My sister wants me to find an app/utility that will allow
> her to enter calendar events such as birthdays and other
> anniversaries, and get reminders without her having to do
> anything else! (We live in cities 500 miles apart)

<SNIP>

"UK's Kalender" looks pretty good but it may be overkill. Look
through some of the programs on this page. MOST are organizers,
but many will do what she wants.

http://freeware.intrastar.net/organize.htm

The site is full of other great free programs of all kinds.
Worth looking at.

[Site has been around for a /long/ time - you can tell by the
design - and SOME of the links are dead... Many are brand new...
Many of the old ones work just fine...]

Just looked at this one, out of curiosity. Tiny and seems to do
it all.

http://www.spacejock.com/RMP3.html

thanatoid <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>"UK's Kalender" looks pretty good but it may be overkill.

"UK's Kalender" has no fluff, other than holidays packs for almost all
cultures, and countries.

You've tried any of the prgrams you listed, or were all the ones you
attempted dead links?
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(E-Mail Removed) wrote in
news:(E-Mail Removed):

> thanatoid <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>"UK's Kalender" looks pretty good but it may be overkill.
>
> "UK's Kalender" has no fluff, other than holidays packs for
> almost all cultures, and countries.

It looked like more than the OP seemed to want (of course, we'll
never know). And AFAIAC, being able to choose a wav sound per
reminder is, well... a little fluffy.

> You've tried any of the prgrams you listed, or were all the
> ones you attempted dead links?

I have nothing to do and nothing to be reminded of so WHY would
I try ANY of them? The one I suggested, RMP3 is a really nice
small one, and whose author's excellent work is familiar to me.
The screenshots looked pretty damn good, too.

I also recommended the site /in general/ because it is one of
the best freeware sites out there, as old fashioned as it may
"appear". Most of the new freeware sites are NOT freeware, "FREE
download!!!" means just that - if you want to use it for more
than 30 days, you gotta cough up $40. That's not freeware,
that's scamming. I have had to delete the majority of "freeware
sites" from my URL Organizer.

AFA dead links, I always get a dead link or two when I look for
something but it's a totally free site for totally free software
and I guess the guy doesn't have time to check the hundreds (if
not more than a thousand) of links he provides. Small price to
pay methinks.

Just checked now, and the FIRST link on the organizer page is
from 2000, and it works. They are chronological so if one wants
a lower probablity of a dead link, and possibly cooler looking
(read: bloat, eye-candy, crap, useless features, etc.) stuff,
one can start from the bottom.

The "organizers" page has about 50 programs from under 100KB to
almost 40 MB in size, /all free/. That looks pretty good to me.
I have found MANY great programs through that site.

On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:32:58 -0800, <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>My sister wants me to find an app/utility that will allow her to enter
>calendar events such as birthdays and other anniversaries, and get reminders
>without her having to do anything else! (We live in cities 500 miles apart)

Minireminder www.minireminder.com will do very well for you.

It is not a calendar but it will allow you to enter all your important
days and remind you in advance by a number of days specified by you.

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Archer