Freeware of the day...... Day 29

Todays freeware is actually two excellent programs that are replacements for the Calender/Datebook and Tasks/ToDo applications built-in to most every Palm handheld, it's KsDatebook and KsToDo.

These two free programs offer you more ways to work with your calender and tasks data and yet both should be very intuitive and familiar immediately to users. By using very similar interfaces and the same databases as the built-in calender and tasks applications, both of these freeware programs can be used to add new entries, and the data will still be hot-synced to your desktop PC. The only bug I have found, for me anyways, is alarms are generated by both the built-in applications and KsDatebook or KsToDo, however it's not really a big problem since they appear at the same time, but others may find it a bit annoying.

KsDatebook offers 5 different calender views, including a useful single, or two week agenda view, and a single month view, both with the option of using tiny fonts to fit more on-screen. KsToDo offers just a few extra functions missing from the built-in tasks application and nicely integrates with KsDatebook to make moving back and forth between the two easier. Neither are very big either with KsDatebook at 298 KB and KsToDo at 69 KB. By offering just the right amount of added features that are missing in the built-in equivalents, KsDatebook and KsToDo create a solid replacement for the datebook and tasks programs, and are worthy of being launched by their respective hard buttons.

For more information and to download KsDatebook, check it out here.

For more information and to download KsToDo, check it out here.