

This fully customizable calendar with notes, tasks, alarms and contacts provides seamless integration and interactivity with the desktop background. You can organize your data in color coded layers and share them with other people on a local area network. The program can integrate with Outlook to show its appointments and tasks on the desktop. Preset calendars with holidays for many different countries are included with the program. 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. More than 250 icons divided in 9 categories are available for marking notes. 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. Printing calendar data is easy and includes an option to choose date range for printing notes. Built-in address book allows you to maintain detailed information about all your contacts, personal and business alike. Importing contacts from Outlook, Outlook Express and Windows Address Book is possible. Google and other web based iCal calendars are supported through direct connection with their ICS files. Special desktop pictures option will let you add some of your pictures to existing desktop background. For importing and exporting calendar data the program supports iCal and comma separated values CSV formats. The program saves daily backup automatically. 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.
Type : Shareware ($29.90)
OS Support : Windows All + Vista
Date / Size : Apr, 4. 2008 / 4052 kBytes
Requirements : unspecified
Update history of Active Desktop Calendarv7.55 (July, 16. 2008)
Version 7.55 allows you to set text color for an entire layer so all notes from that layer are displayed in the same color automatically.
v7.53 (July, 1. 2008)
Version 7.53 allows you to change the text color separately for each note in the calendar.
v7.52 (June, 12. 2008)
Version 7.52 improves Notes Week View with an option to show five days instead of seven in a smaller window.
v7.5 (May, 28. 2008)
Version 7.5 comes with Notes Week View that shows calendar details for seven days in a row.
v7.49 (May, 17. 2008)
Version 7.49 adds refresh interval options for shared data layers and a new option for adjusting monthly calendar printout.
v7.48 (April, 26. 2008)
Version 7.48 allows opening Day View directly from the desktop.
v7.46 (April, 4. 2008)
Version 7.46 adds an option to filter information by data layer in Day View.
v7.45 (March, 14. 2008)
Version 7.45 adds several options for customizing information shown in Day View.
v7.42 (February, 22. 2008)
Version 7.42 allows opening notes for editing directly from Day View and adds more options for calendar navigation in that view.
v7.4 (January, 29. 2008)
Version 7.4 brings Day View that shows calendar details for a chosen date.
v7.33 (January, 19. 2008)
Version 7.33 adds sorting options to contact cards view.
v7.32 (December, 15. 2007)
Version 7.32 introduces a special tag for counting note recurrences.
v7.3 (December, 1. 2007)
Version 7.3 features one more choice (text banner) for desktop calendar style.
v7.27 (November, 10. 2007)
Version 7.27 includes replicate wallpaper option for dual monitor configurations.
v7.25 (October, 14. 2007)
Version 7.25 brings extended desktop interactivity through additional options available on right-click.
Distribution permissions for Active Desktop Calendar
Provided that you verify that you are distributing the Shareware version
you are hereby licenced to make as many copies of the Shareware version
of this software and documentation as you wish; give exact copies of the
original Shareware version to anyone; and distribute the Shareware version
of the software and documentation in its unmodified form via electronic means.
There is no charge for any of the above.