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Originally published at Internet.comActive Desktop Calendar is a PIM that appears on your desktop wallpaper. This customizable calendar with notes, tasks, alarms and contacts provides integration and interactivity with the desktop background.
Features include:
- Organize your data in layers and share them with other people on a local area network
- 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
- 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 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
- Desktop pictures option will let you add some of your pictures to the 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
- For Tablet PC users: The program detects desktop orientation and changes automatically
- Comes with world clock screen saver that shows your computer's system time, plus five major time zones around the worldAuthor: Company Rep
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