Best Selling Desktop Calendars

by admin on March 13, 2011

With the use of computers and calendar applications that come with them, it may seem that the old desk calendar is a thing of the past. But that is far from correct – desk calendars continue to prove useful to everyone who wants to be able to be on the top of their schedule. With just a glance, a desktop calendar can tell you about your schedule for the day. If you are at work and are informed on the phone that you have an important meeting with a client in three weeks, a desktop calendar is the best place to note it down; you won’t have time to fumble with your latest gizmo and make an entry in it. Here I will show you the best desk calendars that you can get for your use. Not only the best calendars, I will also inform you about the best selling publishers of desktop calendars.

a desk calendar

Danilo

Danilo.com is Europe’s leading calendar designer and manufacturer. With a choice of more than 1000 calendars, you have a lot of choice with Danilo. Their desk calendar collection includes calendars with different themes, including Dilbert, Simpsons, Manchester United Calendars and more. So if you are the kind to make a statement about your work, you can go with Dilbert themed calendar, but when it is Football season, you can go with your teams calendar (there is Liverpool’s calendar too, apart from other teams).

Calendars.com

This is another leading supplier site for calendars, especially for those of us n this side of the Atlantic. They have quite a huge desk pad calendar collection, with about 760 desk calendars when I checked! With such a huge choice, you are all but certain to find your kind of calendar at calendars.com. What I found especially useful was that I could specify my budget, so that I was shown only the calendars that were within my budget.

Flip-a-Week Calendar from Quill.com

Quill.com does not present a lot of choice with desk calendars, but they have some great

Desktop Calendar

Desktop Calendar by Magellanmerchandise

looking models. Check out this particular model that I liked a lot. Each week can be seen at a glance, and the days of a week have their space for note taking. The incline of the model makes it easy to glance it and check it in an instant.

Custom Calendars from Yearbox.com

What could be cooler than designing your own calendar, and using that every day of the year? Yearbox.com allows you to do just that with its professionally designed templates that you can use to create your own personalized desk calendars. You can select from more than eight layouts on this page. Once you have selected the layout, you can add the images that you want the calendar to be printed with. The steps required to make your calendar are mentioned in more detail on this page.

Choosing Desktop Calendars

I have covered some of the best desktop calendar publishers from Europe and US. The use of a desk calendar is a slowly dying out habit, but for those of us who cannot get by their workday without one, not only we need calendars that are functional, but also need a lot of choice in the type of calendar we want. I am sure that you will definitely get your choice of desktop calendar from the sites that I have reviewed here today.

 

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Coolest Desktop Calendar Software

by admin on March 8, 2011

Calendars are one of the best personal productivity tools one can use. A good desktop calendar acts as your personal secretary that reminds you of your upcoming meetings, events, and other engagements. Whether you are a student facing a mid-term or a professional who attends four meetings a week, and that too on a slow work week, a cool desktop calendar can be your best bet. Here, I will propose and review the four of the coolest desktop calendar softwares. Let me start with the ones that are paid software, and then go on to the cheaper and free ones:

screenshot of iCal - a desktop calendar software

iCal from txdays

Active Desktop Calendar

It is not often that CNET gives any software 5/5 in its official review. But CNET did it for Active Desktop Calendar, and seeing its feature list and screenshots, I am not surprised. The latter link is to its home site by the way. The calendar is free-to-buy, which means that you can try it free for 42 days, after which you can choose it to buy or not. It is priced at $29 as of now, but you can try it for free and see if it suits you. This calendar supports Microsoft Outlook and Google Calendar, so you can be assured that your different applications and devices will remain in sync.

Desktop Calendar

Check out the screenshots of this generically named Desktop Calendar, and be blown away by its design and colors. This is a complete desktop solution, and comes for what may be called steep $19.99 an install. But it also has a trial version for free, so you can try it out before buying it. I checked out the trial version, and found it easy to use. Whenever you start the calendar, if there is a scheduled event for today, it will warn you about it in a message box. This is just one of the features- for complete list check out its features page here. The software comes for Windows 7, Vista and for XP.

Google Calendar

Because it does not have a standalone application, Google calendar is not your normal

Desktop Calendars

Desktop Calendars by google

desktop calendar program. But it still does come with as a calendar plugin or widget that can be used with Google Desktop, so it qualifies in my book. Personally it is my favorite, because I can do so much with it. I can sync my Google Calendar dates with my mobile devices for example. Another advantage of Google Desktop is that it is cross-platform application – so if you use a Windows 7 computer at home, and use a Linux laptop at work, you can use the same calendar in both the machines. There are also a lot of plugins that made available for Google calendar – and all of this for free.

iCal for Mac OS

If you are an Apple user, you perhaps already know about iCal. But if you do not still use it,

take this as a cue to start using it. Supported by Apple, iCal is the primary Calendar application for Mac OS, and like other things made by Apple, it comes with incomparable features and looks in the Apple universe. And if you want to sync your Apple iCal with Google Calendar, you can use Spanning Sync 3.

Whether you want to pay for a Desktop calendar, or not, you should choose one of these cool Desktop softwares to manage your time well, and manage it in style.

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