Re: [WinMac] Calendar/Contact Mgmt. Software

Curtis Wilcox(cwcx[at]uhura.cc.rochester.edu)
Wed, 24 Feb 1999 13:35:06 -0500

At 06:21 PM 2/23/99 +0000, Bill Chapman wrote:
>
>
>On 23 Feb 99, at 17:11, Bruce Johnson wrote:
>> I need a scheduling program that hunts me down wherever I am, slaps me
>> upside the head, and says "You have a meeting now, you idiot!" as it
>> drags me down the hall to the meeting ;-) A bit beyond any of the
>> software I've ever found...
>
>That's one of the things I like about yahoo's calendar. It will e-mail
>me two reminders at selected times prior to the events I enter.
>Kind of like slapping me upside the head, since I always keep my
>mailer running.

I use Yahoo's calendar to send reminders to my pager. A beeping/vibrating
box on your hip is about as close as you'll get to Bruce's dream scheduler :-)

However I would be nervous about relying on a free calendaring system
that's just "out there" somewhere for a business unless the
access-from-anywhere attribute was really attractive. Netscape and Lycos
have their own versions and there are sites SuperCalendar and Jump! which
specialize in this sort of thing but who knows if they'll shrivel up and
blow away one day. I'm sure there are plenty of others.

Another calendaring option is Netscape Calendar (software you buy, not the
free thing on their portal). It has Mac and Win clients as well as a web
option (the web version lacks a few features of the client software). The
server runs on NT and some flavors of UNIX.

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Curtis Wilcox
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