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BZ-01:  Appointment, Calendar Programs


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#27013/0766 Appointment Calendar & Scheduling          Small Programs Disk
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Appointment Calendar 1.9 (APPCAL)
   FM Software
   $10
is a quick, easy and simple appointment calendar program. The main display shows
the current month on the left with days that have appointments marked with a
dot. Appointments for the selected day appear in a box on the right. Appointment
files can be searched a year at a time and six months can be viewed at once. The
day, month and year can be quickly changed with the cursor keys.

Calendr 1.2
   Wright, David S.
   $15
displays events and appointment messages.  By pressing the appropriate key,
you can see entries for the current day, the next seven days, the last seven
days, or the next 30 days.  It is easy to enter, edit, delete or print
messages.

Daily Calendar (DCAL)
   Spencer, Garry
   $0
will display a three-month calendar centered on the system date or a
specified date. The program makes attractive use of colors.

Easter
   Schimmel, Fred
will calculate the date that Easter falls on between the years 1900 and 2099.
'C' source code is included.

EzTickle 2.0 (EZTICKL)
   Beltech Service
   $25
maintains and produces to-do lists. You can enter up to 400 characters (8
lines of 50 characters each) for each task. It provides you with assignment
billing information with each task. Billing information consists of 3-digit
client code, 2-digit project code, 2-digit subproject code, initials of person
assigned, and number of units. Units can be days, hours, dollars or any other
unit you can bill by. Wild-card dates let you code activities to show up on
the first Monday of the month, every Friday of every month, or Tuesday of a
specific month, etc.

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#27013/1097 Calendar Printing Programs          Small Programs Disk
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Almanac
   gives you a list of birth and death dates of famous individuals, historic
events and a few holidays.

Big-Cal
   Ford, Nelson , ASP
   $15
creates a large one-month calendar with a big square for each day for entering
appointments, etc. The calendar is formatted to print out either on two pages
which are to be taped together side-by-side to create one big monthly
calendar, or on just one page either vertically or horizontally.

Big-Cal saves the selected month's calendar in a text file which you can
simply copy to the printer or edit with your word processor to add fancy
touches, appointments, or any special features your word processor and printer
support.

CAL-1MO
   prints a calendar to the screen from DOS.

CAL2
   Burke, Dan
   $?
will display the calendar for any month of any year.  The full screen is used
for the display.  Arrow keys are used to move to the next day or month.

Calendar 2.2  (CALENDA)
   McClendon, Judson
   $0
will create a one-page yearly calendar for a specified year with the holidays
for the year listed at the bottom and the holiday dates printed in bold in the
calendar. It will print the calendar or send it to a disk file. BASIC source
code is included.

Calender Report 2.04 (CALRPT)
   WetZoft Applications
   $20
allows you to produce nicely formated calendar reports from Sidekick+'s
Calendar without invoking Sidekick. It will print to the screen or printer.
There is a switch for Weekly Separators, allows current date and time in
heading; print tasks after appointments; 12/24 hour clock support
(installable); appointment capacity is 845 and the calendar record capacity
will hold 64k.

CopyApp
   is a utility which copies an entry from a Sidekick appointment calendar,
rolling it forward on a weekly, yearly (annual) or daily basis.

HPLJ Calendar Printer 4.0 (HPCAL) (11-93 CD)
   Nakakihara, Douglas J.
   $0
prints out a one-page calendar for any year on an HP Laserjet II. It may
work on other Laserjets if they have the line printer font. The HPLJ 4
is also supported.

YearCal
   Sittler, Paul
   $0
is a step up from the usual run-of-the-mill calendar printing programs.  This
one will not only print a calendar (to screen, printer or file) for any year,
it will also print 12- and 13-month fiscal year calendars starting with any
month.

It prints calendars in hex and octal, as well as decimal, in Julian dates, and
in 16 different languages, including Cantonese, Gaelic, Irish, Japanese, and
Turkish. It also prints fiscal year calendars and schedules for month, week or
year, starting on any day you choose.

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#2670 Appointment Calendar & Scheduling #2          Small Programs Disk
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Job_Jar 08-93 CD
   Pinkerton, Bill
   $0
lets you add, delete, view and print job tasks. Up to 500 entries are
allowed. A monthly calendar is included.

Mjog 2.17
   The Cove Software Group
   $0
is an appointment reminder program that is fast and easy to use.  It is
primarily designed to be run as a reminder from your AUTOEXEC.BAT each
morning.  You can add entries from the DOS command line easily at any time.
You can define different lookahead periods for each reminder.

Remind Me! (REMNDME)
   RSE Inc.
   $10
alerts you to important events before they happen.

Tikler 5.3 (12-93 CD)
   Olsen, Richard A. ASP
   $15
is an appointment reminder that automatically looks ahead a specified number
of days and displays any appointments within that range. Features include the
ability to edit prior entries, select another event file, view a monthly
calendar, password protection, file encryption, and protection against
erasure. You can also specify the event file you want the program to access
when it starts.

ToDo 3.99
   Hill, Art
   $29
is an appointment scheduling and reminder program. It displays a list of
entries in date order. If you select an entry and press Enter, an additional
note field will be displayed. (Since the note is optional, we think there
should be some indication on the main screen of which entries have notes -
just an asterisk or something.) Entries can be easily added and deleted. The
program is also DESQview compatible.

VAC
   and its associated files help schedule vacations for up to 50 people.
(Requires Basic)

What's Up 1.32 (WHATSUP)
   Nassar, Nassib & SoftBrush, ASP
   $20
displays reminder messages on specified dates. It is easy to use with many
functional options such as wild card dates; week days allowing recurring
reminders; user specified advance date displays; missed messages; three month
calendar; reminders for any date; and calendars in your choice of English,
Spanish, French, German, or Italian.

Yellow Sticky (YSTICKY)
   Henning Associates
   $10
is a daily To-Do manager. It displays the current month and the following
month, and lists current and previously unfinished projects. This is an
excellent tool to help you priortize daily tasks.

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Personal Appointment Calendar 3.1 (PAC31)
   Mears, Larry
   $5
creates a calendar for remembering appointments and special days. Notes
of 11 lines by 19 characters can be attached to each day. (Special order
from the December 1993 CD-ROM: 102K)


ApCal 3.20
   Gamma Software , ASP
   $35
   #3979
is a flexible and powerful time management tool. It provides full-screen
monthly calendars with day blocks in which you can type notes. It has a
customizable holiday file for birthdays and anniversaries which are
automatically included in the proper calendars.

Appointments can be scanned, searched, moved, copied, and printed. Alarms can
be set to remind you of an appointment a given number of minutes before the
appointment is due. Other features include boot alarms, which remind you of an
event when you start up your computer, and a snooze alarm.


Ample Notice 3.0
   Harris, Mark , ASP
   $35
   #27112/1041
is an appointment calendar with resident alarms. It accepts entries such as
"third Thursday in November", or "every other Wednesday for two months".
Archiving and sorting options let you keep track of past activities, and
various types of printouts let you keep track of appointments when you are
away from the computer. The pop-up alarm clock reads the appointment file
automatically or can be used manually apart from Ample Notice. Many other
features are included.


Calendar Mate
   Hawk Software , ASP
   $25
   #27112/2125
is an appointment calendar program. It can produce daily or monthly calendars.
They can be printed in English, French, German, or Spanish. Printers supported
include Epson and compatibles and HPLJ II/IIP.

Features include the ability to compute the date for Easter, compute the lunar
cycles and print when a full moon and new moon occur in the month, print
events in compressed format on a monthly calendar, display the future
occurrences of a repeating event, automatically reschedule events, print a
single calendar or a range of calendars, print a yearly calendar on one page,
and more. Requires 384K.


DayMaster 4.0
   Unicorn Software Limited, ASP
   $20
   #27112/2126
will list all the events, birthdays, anniversaries, and appointments for the
date as well as a quote for the day. Any events, or births/anniversaries that
you enter will have a small arrows displayed next to them, appointments will
flash. The year of the specific event will be displayed along with what was
significant about it. Other features include the ability to create multiple
data disks and a reminder system for any range of dates.


Flexical
   Forester, John
   $?
   #27112/1914
combines two useful desk accessories, a flexible calendar and a complete
address-book and mailing system, with a runner's and hiker's diary.


H & P Calendar
   Pfannenschmid, Harold F., ASP
   $?
   #27112/1322
prints year or month calendars. You may select from 24 different graphics to
add to the calendar and you can add text directly to the calendar by typing it
in when the calendar is displayed on the screen. The screen is printed by
means of a graphics screen dump. A database is included to let you keep track
of occasions, but it is not integrated into the calendar printing.
CGA-compatible video and graphics screen-dump software and printer are
required. Also on the same disk by the same author is a loan amortization
program.


Make-My-Day
   Universal Business Concepts
   $0-$50
   #27014/1042
besides having a very clever name, is an Appointment Calendar, a Job
Scheduler, a Time Log and an Expense Account Manager for one or several
people. Printed reports and worksheets keep you on track away from the
computer. Not as flashy as the other programs, but still very solid. Days are
broken down on the screen into quarter-hours when entering appointments, etc.


PAL
   PAL Software
   $35-$50
   #27014/0442
lets you get more out of Borland Software's SideKick program's appointment
calendar module, which is fairly limited as it stands. PAL will let you search
your appointment file to report all your appointments within a specified range
of days from today, or from a date that you specify or which contain a match
for a string that you specify and which fall on or after today or on or after
a date that you specify. It will purge old entries not deleted by SK. PAL will
also report all upcoming appointments within a range of dates, search for an
appointment, auto-repeat appointments, nag you if you don't get a task done,
and more. PAL can also be used as a stand-alone appointment calendar program, so
you do not have to have Sidekick to use it. Alarms can be used for unattended
operation of the computer by passing commands (or any keystrokes) to DOS or an
application.


TickleX 6.4 [TICKLEX]
   Kelly, Richard A.
   $60
   #27014/1043 (12-93 CD)
is a major tickler program for appointments, deadlines, reminders and
timetables. Reminders are used to jog you a couple of days before the
actual appointments or deadlines. If you change the date of an entry, a
unique feature of Ticklex is that any associated reminders that you have
set are automatically changed too. One Ticklex installation can keep
track of appointments (et al) for up to five people. The program is very
slick, seems bullet-proof, and installs easily.

Features include the following: memory-resident alarm holds up to 20
events per day and can be scheduled days, months or years in advance;
tracks income, expenses and time worked and produces itemized reports;
prints calendars; rank deadlines; and faster mass rescheduling and
record omission when used on networks. It will also sort through
scheduled events by not just one, but several employees at once; you can
even get two weekly views of anyone's schedule, and a weekly calendar
print-out. and give the user the option to alter CONFIG.SYS himself. The
output options include two variations of the standard report, a printed
wall calendar, a simple Gannt chart, and a time-scheduled report. It can
track the schedules of up to 200 people simultaneously, either on a
stand-alone computer or on a local area network.


TimeSaver III
   MicroCon, Inc.
   $25
   #27014/0554
is an appointment calendar program that displays a calendar for a month. Each
day is divided into time slots on the screen and a solid bar across the time
slots indicate appointments. By using the cursor keys, you can quickly move to
any day to see the detail of the appointments. PgUp and PgDn changes months.

Other features include overlapping appointments, 24 hour-a-day scheduling
capability, one-minute time increments for appointments, 5 and 30 minutes
automatic with pointers, complete task management apart from appointment
scheduling, special day tags.


Reminders
   Micro Data Assist
   $20
   #27113/1344
is an appointment calendar program. Ten codes are used to group each reminder
under specific headings: 0=hold open, 1=closed, 2=holiday, 3=deadline,
4=appointment, 5=meeting, 6=other, 7=birthday, 8=anniversary, and 9=special.
You can view the calendar for a whole month with a single screen display. All
your days are flagged to show reminders important to you. You can display a
summary of the entire calendar for the current month, and create a handout
file containing reminders that can be passed on to other users.


Resident-TaskManager
   WetZoft Applications, ASP
   $30
   #27113/2010
is a memory-resident program to manage lists of tasks, reminders or ToDo's for
an individual in as little as 6k of DOS RAM. Data stored for each entry
includes description, project name, date, priority, and up to five lines of
notes. The program has very few features. The author says its main attraction
is its TSR capability, which pretty much requires either a hard disk or EMS.
If you have EMS, you should really get DESQview and put one of the more
powerful time managers in a window, which is at least as good as having a TSR.
Additional features include searching of the main task file, single file
swapping, a DOS shell, extended attached descriptions, and short cut keys to
menus for reference.


Schedule
   Dunn, Stephen M.
   $20
   #27113/2328
is an appointment calendar, reminder, and memo program. It works well for a
single user, but it will also support multiple users on a network by recording a
name and access code for each. There does not appear to be any option for
printing a combined schedule, so we are not sure what the advantage to this
being multi-user is. In addition, we would like to see a command line or set-up
option for skipping the log-on part for single users, for whom it is just a
nuisance. Aside from that, the program is well designed and easy to use.

The appointment scheduling part of the program allows repeating entries for
holidays, etc. Memos can be made in Month, Week, Day and subject files. A
week-at-a-glance is offered and a monthly calendar can be printed, but it does
not display appointments on it.


Tickler
   Canning, Lynn
   $0
   #27113/1279
is an appointment reminder program. It will print a list of your appointments
for a specified number of days. It allows reminders allows messages to be
tagged as recurring annually, quarterly, monthly, weekly or temporary. It
automatically removes reminders into an archive file when their date has
passed. It has a memory resident editor for adding appointments.


TimeSaver/MC
   MicroCon
   $69
   #27114/2197
has all the features of TimeSaver plus other multi-user oriented functions. It
is ideal for a local area network server where each individual can interact with
other users on the network for requesting meeting times, coordinating conference
rooms, or for scheduling facilities or equipment. It is compatible with most
local area networks including IBM, Novell and 3Com. However, a network is not
required to benefit from TimeSaver/MC.


Today
   Kincaid, Patrick
   $0
   #27114/0871
is a reminder program for your appointments, but it also comes with a set of
files that tells you what happened on "this day in history" - just like on the
radio.  Interesting, entertaining and useful.  Features include the ability to
set a reminder for a range of dates, the ability to have multiple databases,
and several other technical changes.


Year Planner
   Flowsoft
   $10
   #27114/1729
is an organizing tool which mimics the familiar "write-on, wipe-off" wall
planner calendar system most businesses use to schedule important events.  You
are allowed to write deadlines, appointments, and other important information
into "day blocks" which can later be printed out in a large standard calendar
format.  (Numerous printers are supported.)  Information can be easily updated
or erased altogether and reprinted.  Features include an overlay template to
apply similar messages in many "day blocks", an onscreen year summary so you
can see the whole year at a glance, large calendar printouts, and all major
holidays already built in.  Our only suggestion is that it would be easier to
read and grasp if the day and date were across the tops of the day-blocks
instead of down the sides.  Requires 512k.


Absent
   Micro Masters Software
   $20
   #27115/2566
is a fast and easy way to track and keep employees aware of absences. Reports
give breakdown of vacations, illness, and other absences.


Employee Scheduling Assistant
   Guia International Corp., ASP
   $39
   #27115/3896
keeps track of vacations and other activities such as sick leave, education,
personal days off, work time and wages, shift assignments and so on. Calendars
show holidays and schedules and can be viewed for a day, month or year. Employee
start and stop times are graphically displayed.

You may have up to 99 departments per directory with up 50 employees each.
Several report options are built in. You can easily view and edit past, present
and future schedules.


Office Time Manager
   Lamb, Ken
   $20
   #27115/3038 [2 disks]
will help maintain and track personnel time off, including vacation, leave of
absence, funeral, jury duty, sick time, etc. It can produce calendar reports
by selected month, which include all persons having time off during that
month. Requires 512k RAM and 700+k of disk space. (The author can no longer be
reached at the address provided in the documentation.)


Vacation Schedular
   ANYKey Software
   $20
   #27115/2329
is a vacation scheduling program.  It is fast, menu driven and easy to use.
Schedules are entered and viewed via monthly calendars.  Months can be quickly
changed with the cursor keys.  For each employee, the program keeps track of
the number of days vacation allowed, number of days scheduled, and number
already taken for the current and following year. Calendar schedules showing all
vacation schedules can be viewed on-screen or printed out. The maximum number of
names in a roster file is 150 and up to 200 files can be displayed in the
roster file selection window.

When testing the program, don't make the mistake we did and try to make
entries for dates prior to the current date and end up thinking that the
program does not work. You are not allowed to make or delete entries in the
past. (It pays to read the documentation first.)


Mayan Calendar 3.62
   R. K. West Consulting, ASP
   $29
   #1493
is based on the use of the Mayan's ancient system of two calendars running
parallel with each other.  The program will allow you to calculate 20th
century dates or dates outside the 20th century for the Mayan Calendar and
optionally display a horoscope for that date.  A pop-up chart of Mayan and
Aztec day and month names is included.


Appointment Calendar
   Weinberg, Alan
   $40
   #27646/2920
is an appointment calendar that works from a month-at-a-glance, block calendar
display. Each day/block says how many appointments you have in the a.m. and
p.m. Selecting a day brings up another screen with half-hour increments for
the day in which you can view and enter more detail. We prefer the approach
used by TimeSaver (#0554) in which the monthly calendar indicates appointments
by the half-hour with grids in the box, but this program is fast and easy to
use with some nice features too, such as Btree files for fast data access.
Requires 512K.


Calendar Keeper
   Dataphile Software, ASP
   $33
   #27646/3217
maintains up to ten separate calendar databases. It supports five event types
including current-year-only events; permanent events; consecutive days (range of
dates); every x number of days; monthly on day-of-week events. There are three
report formats including monthly wall calendar, week-at-a-glance calendar, and
the year-at-a-glance calendar. It works with all printers. Requires a
high-capacity or hard disk and DOS 3+.


CalSK2
   WetZoft Applications, ASP
   $25
   #27646/3285
creates a formatted preview report of appointments and tasks from Sidekick 2's
calendar file without invoking Sidekick 2. You can preview any next number of
days; search and display/print selected tasks and appointments; look ahead for
specially tagged events and list notes that are attached to appointments and
tasks. Requires Sidekick 2 and 320K.


Early Bird
   Allan Computer Products, ASP
   $32
   #27646/2862
is a full-featured, easy to use reminder program. Reminder types can be simple
(daily, weekly, annually), or as complex as you need (3rd from the last Thursday
of every 9th week). Features include desktop calendar and scan modes, pull-down
and pop-up menus, context sensitive on-line help, alarms, DOS shell, mouse
support, file manipulation commands, selectable group printing, and more. The
program also offers user definable classes, notice, print and display options,
and special effects. This is a very well done package, with enough options to
keep the busiest person on schedule.


HiPerCAL
   HiPerSoft Systems
   $43
   #27646/3200
is a block-calendar printing program. You can maintain up to nine different
date lists with up to 500 entries each and print block calendars for one or
more months at any time. Comments of up to 32 characters each can be entered,
and up to four comments can be printed in a day's block. A printer capable of
172 characters per line is required (or an HPLJ in Landscape mode). The
calendars are rather plain, but functional.


in View
   Integrasoft Corporation
   $50
   #27647/3613
is a personal information manager. In addition to the usual calendar, clock, and
scheduling features that are standard on this type of program, it also allows
you to launch programs from your to-do list. Other features include context
sensitive help, a comprehensive tutorial, and text search and retrieval.
Hypertext-like linking lets you associate other pages of text to keywords in
your notepad. Mouse support included and a hard disk recommended.


MaxiCalendar
   Ernst, Thomas J.
   $40
   #27647/2697
is a full-featured appointment calendar system. It can be run in a pop-up mode
in as little as 8k of DOS RAM. It features automatic scheduling of meetings,
appointments, and events that occur daily, weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, or
annually, a "to do" notepad, Month-at-a-Glance view, and a standard holiday
file. It will calculate the number of days between dates and has on-line,
context sensitive help. Independent calendars are available to support more than
one person's schedule. Calendars may be saved and printed.


Personal Calendar 14.62 [PCAL1462]
   FunStuff, ASP
   $35
   #27647/3056 (12-93 CD)
displays a three-month scrollable calendar, a running analog and digital
clock, and appointment and note lists. The program will alert you when a
scheduled event is coming due or overdue. By swapping to EMS or hard disk, the
program only uses 6k of DOS RAM.


Que Accounting/Personal Info Manager
   McHugh, Gerald
   $10
   #27647/2791
is a time management program that also contains a notepad, calculator, phone
directory, appointment calender, and a query and report writer. ASCII files can
be imported and exported.


Business StartManager 4.0 [BPIM40]
   Linnabury, John
   $40
   #12447  (10-93 CD)
is a personal information manager with a very attractive graphical
interface. From a menu bar, you can pop up a phone book, calendar,
infobase, to-do list, reminder, journal, daily planner and more.


Calendar Wise 1.11
   Blue Cannon Software, ASP
   $30
   #4150
is a large, block-calendar type of appointment and scheduling program. Calendar
Wise contains 100 separate calendars for a variety of subjects. Multiple
calendars, such as for different people or projects, can be viewed or merged
together.

Entries can be made using yearly, monthly, daily, and weekly frequencies.
Unlimited entries are allowed for each day. Notes can be attached to items.
Items can be found quickly and easily.

Calendar formats can be changed to view one to 25 weeks. Calendars can be sent
to the printer or file. The program supports a network with unlimited users.
Requires EGA/VGA, 512K RAM, a hard drive and DOS 3.01 or above.


Events
   HAHN Software
   $25
   #2923
is an easy way to maintain a database of events or a set of milestones, and
produce time-period bar charts. The time periods can be 24 months in monthly
increments, six months in weekly increments, or one month in daily increments.
Requires 640K. A color monitor and a hard disk are recommended.


On This Day 1.4
   The Software Construction Co., ASP
   $25
   #3983
is an event database manager which can handle dates in the Hebrew, Islamic,
Julian, and Gregorian calendars as well as calculate weekday holidays and
holidays based upon Easter. A personal database may be created to contain
events important to each specific user. Some other types of information which
may be displayed are astronomical events; birthdays of famous people;
historical events; national observations; and religious holidays and events.
Other features include a compression utility and time zone control.

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