桌面iCalendar輕
逗人喜愛，但兒童車。 幾乎產品。
我愛這本逗人喜愛的小的日曆神色。 窗口景色現在來與叫的一本幾乎能幹日曆，毫不奇怪，窗口日曆。 它有它自己的套臭蟲，但它幾乎運作足够很好。 特別是，它可能訂閱對在網或在局部網絡的日曆以ICAL (.ics)格式，并且它可能當地也出版一本日曆以那個格式或在網。
因為我有二臺計算機，維護日曆在景色桌面上和安排XP膝上計算機「訂閱」對那本日曆是方便的。 不幸地，雖然，窗口日曆在膝上計算機不跑和在膝上計算機的微軟日曆不是與ICAL格式兼容。 如此查尋為在XP將跑的一本兼容日曆，更好地一自由一個接著而來了。
桌面iCalendar輕 被發布了少於二個星期前，并且似乎有我想要的所有特點。 最好所有，它是自由的。 我在兩臺計算機安裝了它，并且它似乎確切地運作在上，相同在作為它在XP x32做的景色x64上。
什麼我喜歡多數是涼快的出現。 screenshot在右上角顯示XP便攜式計算機的桌面，與日曆在一個繁忙的桌面題材(早餐頂部!)。 它更加清楚表示反對黑背景，我通常使用。 
這是透明「皮膚」 (出現)，我特別是喜歡，但日曆也有各種各樣的主題和顏色不透明的皮膚。 文本大小、安置和顏色是幾乎完全地可調整的。 幾天以預定的任命或任務在顏色，而無幾天是白色的。 盤旋老鼠在所有天，并且上升流行音樂顯示那天的事件一個小的窗口。 在兩個我的計算機我告訴iCalendar輕訂閱對Windows出版的日曆Calendar在景色臺式計算機和那個部分似乎運作。
這設施問題名單：
- 在初次啟動，錯誤出現以美國假日問題。
這通過增加一本新的美國假日日曆解決從Google公開日曆，然後刪除其中一個美國日曆詞條。 - 幫助在起動菜單沒有運作，從節目(用鼠標右鍵單擊和幫助)或從幫助捷徑。 這是通過給文件改名解決的桌面iCal Lite.chm對Help.chm。 現在它從兩個地點運作。
- The calendar kept prompting me for a Google username and password, even though I do not use Google Calendar. I set up a dummy Google Calendar and eventually the problem went away, though I think a reboot was part of the solution.
- Initially when I clicked on the “setting” function, the program reported an illegal integer value.
That problem eventually went away. - The hourly time announcement is optional. If you select it, the default sound file is in the folder c:\WINNT\Media, which folder does not exist on either XP or Vista. I changed the default to point to a file in c:\Windows\Media and then it worked.
- It has a setting called “Run the program at start up.” If this is NOT checked, iCalendar nevertheless runs at startup anyway. I deleted the offending registry entry, which was disclosed in MSCONFIG, and that issue went away.
Ongoing issues:
- The HELP file discusses a “weather” function, which does not seem to exist in this “lite” version of the program. In addition, the HELP file is very, very skimpy.
- IMPORTANT: The REMINDER function does not seem to work properly. For example, if the reminder is for 5:00 pm iCalendar may or may not chime at that time. Further, it may show a popup at the correct time, or perhaps later, and the popup seems to disappear almost instantly. I can live with the other bugs, but this one is serious. If you set a reminder, you need to be confident that you will GET the reminder at the set time, not one minute sooner or later.
Windows Calendar has this same failing, by the way. It has a setting in Options labeled “Reminder should show when Windows Calendar is not running.” But the reminder doesn’t always appear, even with that setting checked. I think it always works if Windows Calendar is minimized, but of course that unnecessarily consumes taskbar space.
Rant: I’ve had a calendar with reminders working on a real-time computer (HP 1000) for over 20 years. I wrote it myself; it’s NOT difficult! Is this a problem with Windows, or did two different calendar authors both screw up? Either way, Microsoft certainly screwed up. Why is Microsoft always such a paragon of mediocrity? Heaven knows they have enough money to do the job right the first time if they care to.
The non-Microsoft author might be excused, but not Microsoft for Heaven’s sake. If they’re going to act like the big boys they should do the job right, but somehow I doubt they ever will. End of rant.
Perhaps the solution to the buggy iCalendar is to try the “full” version; it’s only $20 if it works, otherwise nothing. I like the look so much, I’ll probably do that. I hope it has a simple digital clock too; I’d like to move that off the taskbar.
Still no response of any kind from Brigadoon Software, by the way. See previous post.
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