Calaboration lets you have it all by allowing you to keep both iCal and Google Calendar in sync so you never need to choose between using one or the other again. And it works absolutely seamlessly. All changes you make in either iCal or Google Calendar are synced in real-time (assuming of course that you are connected to the internet). If you're not, then the two applications will update the next time you are connected.

Setup is extremely easy. You're asked to enter your Google Account username and password so that iCal and sync with it. You're also asked if you want to add the e-mail address you've supplied to be added to your iCal contacts. From them on, it's plain sailing. Simply add and change appointments in either app and the two update simultaneously.

There's little to fault with Calaboration. It does a simple but effective job of meaning your iCal and Google Calendar appointments and reminders are always in sync.

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The application makes use of Leopard's Calendar Store function so syncing with both Mail and iCal works seamlessly. We enjoyed the sleek dark grey interface, which lists up tasks, with the total number appearing at the bottom of the window. You can check or uncheck these and swap between different lists by clicking on the drop down title list.

Anxiety also makes it very easy to create and add new notes in a second. You can also choose to have the program's icon appear either in your menu bar or on the Dock. Anxiety can hide away when inactive and appear at login.

Anxiety is a simple, unassuming yet attractive to-do list which syncs perfectly with Mail and iCal.

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Adobe Photoshop Elements integrates seamlessly with Adobe Bridge CS5 software and provides instant organization of your images. Most importantly, it also includes a custom viewing workspace and full-screen previews and locating images is made easier thanks to tagging options.

Previously, Adobe Photoshop Elements lacks some of the more advanced features available in Windows but version 10 means that it now includes all of the intelligent photo-editing options as found the Windows version. Particular features worth noting are Photomerge Exposure, Recompose and Quick Fix previews and an excellent Scene Cleaner for brushing away unwanted elements from images. The Scene Cleaner also allows you to touch-up photos such as whitening teeth or intensifying colors to give your images a true professional touch.

There are very few downsides to Adobe Photoshop Elements although it can be very slow to open. However, when it finally does open, all actions are performed at lightening speed. Version 9 has also addressed many of the drawbacks from the previous version including the ability to quickly share photos and videos on Facebook and support for Mac multitouch. The new Photomerge technology also allows you to take the best of two photos to create an improved image.

The only issues some users have with Adobe Photoshop Elements is that Adobe still don't issue incremental updates for it.

Overall, Adobe Photoshop Elements is a superb photo editing application that offers all the power you need to create stunning professional results.

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DateLine attempts to distinguish itself from the bunch by displaying a linear calendar on your desktop in a solid color or transparent line. This means that along your desktop, you have a piano keyboard-style layout of days of the month which you can double click on and then edit directly in iCal.

You can customize the background and text colors of the days, or simply turn them transparent to make them a little more discreet. I would recommend this because otherwise, it does tend to blight your desktop a little.

Overall though, there isn't much point to dateline. There are a host of applications for making iCal more easily accessible and the best solution of all, of course, is to have iCal open all the time. Dateline doesn't even highlight important daily events either which means it's only useful as a tool to access iCal and not to see what's coming up.

If for some reason you don't like having iCal open all the time or have your dock hidden, you may find some use for Dateline, although it's hardly a revolutionary app.

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The calendar is for the period from 2008 to 2015 and will give you both the name and percentage of a moon cycle. For example 75% is disseminating and 25% waxing crescent. Moon Phase Calendar is essentially an ICS file, which you will need to save somewhere where your sure not to lose it. Double click on it to launch it in iCal. You'll then have to select which calendar to associate it to.

It would have been nice to see a bit more information in the Moon Phase Calendar, like some details of the different moon cycles or an image of what the moon looks like during one of them. Still, Moon Phase Calendar is very simple to add to your iCal and doesn't take much space either. You can even edit the events if you wish to add your own details or an alarm.

Moon Phase Calendar adds the moon cycles to your iCal calendar.

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In just a click, you can reveal a monthly calendar view of all your iCal entries. Note that although most features are free to use, some advanced features require registration.

There are an impressive array of customizations possible including the possibility to enter birthdays, filter which iCal calendars you want it to integrate with and configure Hotkeys to activate it.

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Unfortunately, not all of Mozilla's software is as good as Firefox but Sunbird is still a worthwhile cross-platform calendar application that's built upon Mozilla's XUL language. Note that Sunbird is still very much a work in progress and as such, even the name of the application could change soon according to Mozilla.

The interface of Mozilla Sunbird is very simple. Adding an event simply involves clicking on the 'Add Event' box in the top left-hand corner. The same goes for New Tasks. There's also a powerful search tool that finds events by keyword. Like most of Mozilla's products, it also seems very safe and allows you to set a password to access it. You can also extend Sunbird with a series of free add-ons from the Sunbird site.

On the downside, Sunbird doesn't feature integration with either iCal or Google Calendar, which you'd expect as standard really. You can, however, export the calendar. It also doesn't seem to be updated very often and looks like that Mozilla have put it on the back-burner for now.

However, if you use both Firefox and Mozilla's e-mail client Thunderbird, Sunbird is an ideal calendar component although most would probably be better sticking to iCal.

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CalendarBar shows a list of upcoming events in your menubar and automatically syncs with all three applications meaning that your events are dynamically updated. However, you can't manually sync your calendars - you must wait for CalendarBar to do it automatically which may be annoying for some.

You also have to trust it with your login credentials for each calendar, which may raise security concerns for some. You can choose which of your calendars you want to be displayed though and the slick interface integrates with your OS X desktop beautifully.

CalendarBar is a treat for anyone that wants to stay organized in style in OS X.

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RescueTime is a Web-based time management and analytics tool which automatically tracks the applications are taking most of your time. It sits quietly in your status bar and discreetly takes note of which windows are most active and being clicked on at any time. It also intelligently realizes when you've left your desk (obviously by monitoring keyboard and mouse activity) and stops recording at the right moment. You can even instruct RescueTime to prompt you how your time had just been spent.

There are a few other useful features too. One is a block mode which allows you to block certain websites for specific periods so that they don't distract you. Another is an alert feature, which reminds you when you've spent more time than you planned on a certain application or website. At the end of it all is a well-presented graphical representation of where your time was spent.

The idea behind RescueTime is a good one and it could be a useful way for companies to track how employees are using their time. However, for those users who are trying to discipline themselves in time management, the frequent alerts or blockages that you impose will no doubt frustrate more than they aid.

If you've got no self control at all, or you simple find yourself addicted to certain applications or websites, RescueTime will help you regain control over your time.

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This download automatically installs into iCal so you you don't need to download any files onto your hard drive. Keep up to date with the latest holidays in Canada with Canadian Holiday Calendar.

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In the realm of schedulers, there seems to be those that fall into two categories: To Do list apps and straight-up calendars. Neither really gets the job done fully if you're a college student. Get Organized fills in the gaps in that respect, letting you be as specific and detailed as you want.

The nice thing about Get Organized is that it's more than just a calendar, and far more than a simple to do list. Get Organized seems to be targeted specifically for university students, although high school students will also find most of the features useful. You first sort your courses by school term. Then start adding in the classes you're taking in a given semester or quarter. Courses are differentiated by the color of your choosing. Define the dates the class runs from, the days of the week it meets on, and even list the room number and other important information.

Get Organized even takes it a step further from there, however. By allowing you to note all of your assigned homework, assign a priority level to each one, and even input information about the required textbooks per class, you really have no excuse for not getting things turned in on time. There's also a really helpful option to email your professors via one simple click if you've added their information into the proper field.

The only hang-up a user could possibly have with Get Organized is that there are so many features that it's possible you might miss one or two. Luckily, Get Organized also comes with a very handy help prompt upon start-up that you can later choose to disable once you've learned all the tricks.

Get Organized is also available in a portable version, allowing you to take the program virtually anywhere you can imagine going yourself.

For a comprehensive class scheduler and assignment organization tool, Get Organized is not to be missed.

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First of all, don't worry about losing all your iCal info and events. PreMinder lets you easily import all iCal information. The application is built in a multi-windowed interface, which has always turned me off a bit, as I find it unpractical to work. Not only do you have the big calendar window, but also the reminder window at the bottom, an events window on the left and a floating mini-calendar.

PreMinder provides multiple ways of scrolling through items, from a very handy monthly slider at the top to the daily notifier on the left or the quick back and forward buttons in the Calendar window.

PreMinder lets you create your own events, alarms and reminders. These can be repeated, stretched to multiple days or weeks and moved around very easily.

The search box at the top right of the PreMinder interface makes it easy to find any piece of data in seconds.

Although still in development, PreMinder is a promising alternative to iCal with lots of flexibility and features.

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There are many major options on the Mac such as Entourage and iCal, and The Hit List is an attempt to gatecrash the market. The Hit List looks and feels very elegant presenting with you what looks like a page from a diary or schedule. You can enter a task simply by hitting enter and typing. All other commands, such as "Task Complete" and "Edit" are listed as keyboard shortcuts along the bottom of the interface. This makes adding tasks extremely quick. You can also open multiple tasks in different tabs if you're working on more than one thing at a time.

For those on the move with an iPhone, you can sync The Hit List with it although this is where the mobile features end. One of the big downsides of The Hit List for many users is the fact that, without an iPhone, you won't be able to access your schedule from any computer wherever you are. When you consider that there are other free options out there that do so, then the appeal of The Hit List looks limited.

The Hit List looks and feels good as a task management application but many may be put of by the fact that it can't be accessed anywhere and the cost of upgrading.

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By organizing your tasks in a better way with Task Coach, you'll notice an increase in your productivity, making use of your time in a more optimized way and therefore gaining time for other tasks - or to enjoy your hobbies once work is over.

The tasks in Task Coach can be organized in categories and seen as list or tree structure. They can also be configured separately, which means that each one of them will have its own title, description and percentage of effort that has been applied on its completion.

Plus, Task Coach can be run from a removable USB device, so you can take it anywhere with you. If you don't have your USB memory stick with you, then you can always export the task list to HTML.

It would have been nice to have more exporting formats in Task Coach, as well as other small tools we missed like task reminders. But these are just little details that we can forgive in such an useful application.

Use Task Coach and improve the way you organize tasks. Boost your productivity and save time!

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TinyCal appears in your menu bar as a drop down item. Even though the icon will not show the month nor date it will display the day. You can set multiple calendars to appear from the drop down, and have them either in a line or a row. TinyCal integrates both Google Calendar and iCal well, which does come in handy if you have different notes saved in each. It will also display days with corresponding events, which are shown right under the calendar.

One of the strengths of the applications is that it is not limited to the Gregorian calendar but will also show Buddhist, Hebrew, Islamic and Japanese. Our only disappointment though is that you can't set the start day of the week, and will have to settle with Sunday.

TinyCal works great at integrating both your Google and iCal calendars.

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