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installed it,

came to the prompt about importing your contacts,

decided that I didn't want to do that,

found that I could not continue setting up the app without doing so,

deleted the app.

This is exactly what I did.

Too bad, it looked like it might have been a cool app.

Same exact comment. Definitely not giving them access to my contacts.

I rather pay for an app than spam my contacts.

exactly what I did..don't want to grant access to my corp calendar..not sure if it would copy my schedule to their servers...

Do not want to give it access to my contacts..

deleted the app.

same here...

My main problem with it at first glance is that in the month view it does not highlight which days have events, so you need to click to see if there’s anything on that day.

Since we're talking calendar apps, thought I'd post this thing from Teehan+Lax called Upcoming. It's a calendar UI experiment. I'm not sure they nailed it, but it is great to see people trying new approaches...

http://labs.teehanlax.com/project/upcoming

Not nearly as experimental as Upcoming, but Sunrise http://www.sunrise.am/ has been my goto for a while now. A bit buggy but pretty, functional, and improving.

This could be really huge for me. I've tried using Google Calendar to get Google Now, but none of the todo apps I prefer sync with it, and Google Now isn't that useful on a Wifi-only tablet anyway.

EDIT: Wow. This is the best-designed (both looks and interaction) calendar app I've ever used. Everything you want is immediately available - maps show up if an event has a location (wish you could switch to Google maps instead of Apple maps, but no biggie), instant contact buttons show up if a contact is recognized at an event, when you delete a repeating event it asks you if you want to delete all of them, etc, etc, etc. It's taken almost every pain point I've had with other calendar apps and fixed them almost perfectly. The gesture-based navigation is also really good, though a couple of the thresholds need slight adjusting.

This is great.

Edited again for typos: "which" != "wish"

I installed http://radicale.org on my server, http://acal.me/wiki/Building_aCal on my android phone and the Lightning extension for Thunderbird on my laptop. Seems fine so far.

Hey, radicale looks pretty nice, thanks for the tip.

How is it free? Are there ads? Is the project a portfolio-demo for an agency? Are they hoping to get bought out by Apple/Google, and then replace the app with a knock-off version discombobulated by the whims VPs and PMs?

Ah, the price is giving the devs a copy of my address book. To sell? rent? analyze?

17 person team! That's a lot of payroll.

Indeed. Surely they must have more than one project in parallel.

It wasn't the technology that made auto-playing video/animations bad. Just because you can now do it with native html rather than flash doesn't make it ok.

I don't think people generally care about auto playing if there is no sound. At least I don't.

The auto-playing video on this site is Flash, though ... ?

    <object width="480" height="270" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" id="big-video-vid_flash_api" name="big-video-vid_flash_api" class="vjs-tech" data="http://vjs.zencdn.net/3.0/video-js.swf" style="width: 1208px; height: 679.5px;"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><param name="wmode" value="opaque"><param name="bgcolor" value="#000000"><param name="flashvars" value="readyFunction=_V_.flash.onSWFReady&amp;eventProxyFunction=_V_.flash.onSWFEvent&amp;errorEventProxyFunction=_V_.flash.onSWFErrorEvent&amp;autoplay=true&amp;preload=auto&amp;loop=false&amp;muted=false"></object>

It's using a video tag for me; sounds like it fell back to Flash for your browser.

Weird. I'm on the latest stable FF; I only knew it was Flash in the first place because it triggered my Flashblock.

I think it looks nice. Why didn't you like it?

I really like Any.do but if you download it and sync it across the web via the Chrome extension, don't be surprised when a bunch of random tasks show up on your manager.

I emailed them about it and they said tasks are added as part of the tutorial and that it's intended functionality. I thought that was kind of weird.

I can't get my eyes to look at the demo playing on the iPhone.

I keep staring at the background video.

For anyone looking for a todo + calendar style app, http://weekplan.net is inspired by the 7 habits of Highly Effective People. (I am the developer of the app)

I don't understand the big blank iPhone at the top?

Edit: Nevermind. Tested in Safari, and it's just broken in Chromium.

The top area is supposed to show/open 1 (or two) movie file(s) through Flash.

It's not Flash - I have Flashblock, and there is a flash video on the page lower down, but the upper two are some HTML player. Right-clicking them doesn't show the Flash context menu items, which is another giveaway.

Looks like the site uses Flash.

Doesn't work on Firefox either. It's just a see-through iPhone at the top.

I love it, b/c I hate every single calendar app I've ever used to date.

Timeline on android version?

I played around it for 5 mins and deceided to delete it. Too fancy. Fantastical is much better IMO

So, I guess, blurred background image is not cool anymore.

I set it up (and allowed access to my contacts), but it only shows me like 5 people when I try to add events/tasks with a person.

Am I doing something wrong?

<title> tag has a typo.

is this better than UpTo? seems like that is a like of "press"

cute url but what a turn-off with the iphone.

Great looking app and all, but it assumes you have good looking contacts AND high-resolution pictures of them. I wonder what visual effect it will have without all those fancy photographs of both people and scenery.

This! I personally really can't stand these apps anymore who only show us the best case scenario design on their website or screenshots. I have exactly 0 photos assigned to contacts on my phone. Also, why is there a picture of a city at night for the 'woodwork workshop'. Makes sense, huh? We're not all hispters.

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