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lem
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I just noticed that I check my calendar frequently during the day. I am sick of double-clicking the time to bring up my calendar.

I would like a calendar that is embedded on my desktop. I know webshots does this, but every system I have ever seen with webshots on it was either bogged down or had system problems.

I don't trust the calendars I am finding on google because I am scared of the webshpots effect. Can anyone reccommend a desktop calendar you are using?

It doesn't need to be fancy--just free. Thanks!

Maybe I can use a widget?

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erosomniac
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Mac, PC, Linux or other?
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Miro
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Since he's talking about widgets, I would assume he has a Mac.
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I always use my Outlook calendar because I can access it from my home computer as well, but that requires at least as much clicking around.
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Nope, it is a pc with XP professional on it. I was thinking of using Yahoo's widget engine, but I think I would rather use a small program that someone I trust has had luck with.
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Oops. Sorry. I was under the impression that widgets were a Mac thing exclusively.
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I never even see my desktop -- I always have so many windows open -- so a desktop calendar I don't think would be helpful if you are working at your PC alot. Because choosing "show desktop" is almost as much trouble as double clicking the clock.

FG

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I was actually looking for the same thing not long ago, and there were several options available from www.download.com that would incorporate directly into your desktop. I tried almost all of them, and they all function very similarly, and I didn't notice a significant drop in system resources from having them run constantly, so it's mostly a matter of features and aesthetics.

What I discovered, though, is that it's just as much of a pain to minimize all your windows to see a calendar as it is to double click the windows time.

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Baron Samedi
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You know, if you unlock the taskbar and drag it up to 2 rows, it'll put the date in under the time automatically.

{does this mean I just taught lem something about Windows? [Eek!] [Eek!] [Taunt] [Laugh] }

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Windows keyboard shortcut to minimize all windows/display desktop: Windows Key+D
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You know, if you unlock the taskbar and drag it up to 2 rows, it'll put the date in under the time automatically.
Mine doesn't; it just creates a whole lotta gray! [Taunt]
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You know, if you unlock the taskbar and drag it up to 2 rows, it'll put the date in under the time automatically.
Mine doesn't; it just creates a whole lotta gray! [Taunt]
That's also assuming you have a taskbar. ^_^

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Ah Crap, the Baron was right! [Grumble] I tested it on my 2000 machine, but on the XP machine it shows the date.

Bah! I like as much visible screen as possible, so a double taskbar is not worth it to me. Plus I want to see a calender, not just the date.

I decided I like the yahoo widgets.

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Yahoo widgets comes from Konfabulator, which use to be on the Mac WAY before Apple photocopied it as "Dashboard".
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I like as much visible screen as possible, so a double taskbar is not worth it to me.
Autohide the taskbar. Make it two rows wide. Ta-da.
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You know, if you unlock the taskbar and drag it up to 2 rows, it'll put the date in under the time automatically.
I just did that. And as I have Windows XP, it worked. Sweet!
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