In today's issue of TechnoLawyer NewsWire, lawyer and legal technology legend Dennis Kennedy covers a utility for managing, merging, and synchronizing multiple calendars, a business productivity suite, and a backup utility with versioning and open database capabilities. Don't miss the next issue.
Below you'll find one of the three articles from today's edition:
Your Nine Lives Each Deserve Their Own Calendar
By Dennis Kennedy
It's hard enough to keep up your calendar and contact list at work, but we all live double, triple, or even quadruple lives, each with its own calendars and contacts. For example, most lawyers do not place doctor's appointments, soccer games, and other family events on their work calendars. Yet synchronizing these other calendars can be a major chore.
Tanner Research's ClearSync gives you a way to manage calendars and contacts for all of your lives — "groups" to use the company's vernacular. Using ClearSync, you can set up multiple calendars and contact lists, and share, protect, and synchronize them as you need.
ClearSync works with PCs and Palm devices, including Palm OS wireless devices like Treos. Using a browser, Macintosh and Linux users can also view calendars and contacts.
The result: Wherever you are — work, home, school, sporting events — you can access contact information, dates, and times for everything going on in your life, thus reducing your chances of missing school plays and birthday parties, or finding, to your surprise, that your kids don't have school on the day of an important work meeting.
ClearSync supports bi-directional synchronization so you can enter or make changes to contacts or appointments on your PC or your Palm device. You can also synchronize your Outlook contacts and calendar.
On both your PC and your Palm device, you can keep multiple calendars, color-code them, and display them one at a time, side-by-side, or as merged calendars. If you use the merged view to show your full agenda, ClearSync maintains the separate underlying calendars, and lets you share each of them — or not — in accordance with the rules you establish.
ClearSync comes in three versions — ClearSync Free, ClearSync Silver, and, ClearSync Gold versions. ClearSync Free enables you to view shared calendars in your browser.
With ClearSync Silver ($19.95 plus $9.95 for each subsequent user), you get the more functional desktop application as well as the ability to create your own calendars, view them side by side or merged, synchronize them with your Palm and over the Internet, and share them with others.
ClearSync Gold ($59.95 plus $29.95 for each subsequent user) provides wireless synchronization, encrypted online synchronization, and telephone support. Learn more about ClearSync.
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