Sunbird Calendar Program
It was Shakespeare who said, “Know thyself.” I have come to realize that I am a calendar freak. A freak, I tell you. I have tried dozens of them and still cannot find my true love. I have even tried those “free to try” calendars with the intent to BUY them if I liked them enough. I just haven’t found the *perfect* calendar. In my dreams, the perfect calendar starts up when my computer starts up. It warns me with a gentle little beep and a window to remind me of my appointments that day. It has wallpaper capabilities– it can incorporate itself as my interactive desktop wallpaper. I can enter information or remove information. I can see all that information on my desktop. And the calendar boxes for each day are large– enough for me to type in the meticulous information that I like to have on hand, on my desktop. It’s also a calendar with customizable colors and sizes. It’s not too complicated.
Haven’t found it yet. The closest I’ve found is Tinnes Desktop Calendar. I love that in every way except that the calendar boxes are too small. I need more room to enter my appointments and information in.
I tried Sunbird. It is actually the best of all the calendars that aren’t what I am looking for, lol. Sunbird is clean, simple, and very configurable. However, the main downfall is that it doesn’t start up with the computer and doesn’t have an interactive interface on my desktop. Big downers. But still, I do like this calendar of all non-desktop calendars I ever seen. Maybe you’d like it, too.
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You are not alone, Mrs. M. I, too, love calendars! Just wanted to let you know that I finally settled on Sunbird, and it does open when I reboot. Maybe you have an older version? Mine is 0.9
The one I loved the most - I mean absolutely loved! - was desktop-icalendar-lite. It sat on the the desktop and didn’t take up much space. It was intuitive (important to me!) and it had all the features I wanted - and it was free! Only problem? The first time I rebooted - it stopped working!!! I just had a little white box!!! I uninstalled and redownloaded three or four times, and could never get it to work again. I sent emails to desksware, put comments on their blog and on c-net … and never heard a thing from anybody.
I was ready to go through hoops to get it working again, but, alas, nobody would help me! Then again, that was a couple months ago. Maybe it’s time to try again. 
P.S. I’ve been snooping around here, bookmarking all kinds of cool stuff. I guess I’ve gotten comfortable enough with Vista to want to spread my wings. Thanks for all the great tips!