scheduling

Tuesday At 3pm Is The Most Agreeable Meeting Time

5:00AM Kevin Purdy | Meeting scheduling service When is Good looked at 100,000 responses to 34,000 events logged to their service over 2 years and found that 3pm—specifically Tuesday at 3pm—seems to be the most agreeable time for a meeting. More »

WakeupOnStandBy Pulls Your Computer Out Of Standby On Schedule

1:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows: Having your computer wake up with you or wake up in the middle of the night to do routine tasks is a handy trick. WakeupOnStandby makes it easy to schedule that wake up call. More »

Jiffle Shares Your Availability More Effectively

7:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Jiffle is a scheduling tool which seeks to put an end to the back and forth deliberations that proceed a properly scheduled meeting. Plug in your availability and let people request a slot. More »

WhichDateWorks Takes The Guesswork Out Of Event Planning

7:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | If you need to pick the best date for a group of people to meet, WhichDateWorks is a simple service with a polished interface. More »

Deferred Sender Schedules Future Emails For Any Email Account

4:00AM Lifehacker US Edition | Web application Deferred Sender sends post-dated email from any email client, including Gmail or Yahoo webmail accounts, helping you replace the frenzied middle-of-the-night email with a responsible first-thing-in-the-morning message. Once you’ve created an account, you can schedule emails by sending an email to Deferred Sender with the intended email address and future date on the first two lines of the email, followed by the email as you would normally send it. The service understands many date formats, so you can write “in 8 hours” or “tomorrow at 8pm” and the email will be sent on that date—though you can login to their panel and reschedule or delete the email if necessary. Built-in rules in Outlook offer the same functionality, but this service will work regardless of your mail client. Deferred Sender is a free service, works with any email account. Thanks, EveDarnified! Deferred Sender More »

Calaboration Syncs iCal And Google Calendar With Ease

2:00AM Adam Pash | Mac OS X only: Google announced CalDAV support in Google Calendar earlier this year, which meant that with a little know-how, you could sync iCal with Google Calendar. Now the Google Mac Blog has officially announced CalDAV support for iCal, and to go along with the announcement they’ve released a new iCal sync application called Calaboration. With Calaboration, you can quickly and easily set up bi-directional syncing between iCal and Google Calendar with just a few clicks of your mouse. It’s quick, it’s easy, and it works like a charm; just run it once to set up your calendar syncing and you shouldn’t need to run it again until you need to add a different calendar. Calaboration is a free download, Mac OS X only. If you’re not on a Mac, check out how you can sync Google Calendar to any desktop calendar you’ve got. Calaboration [Google Code via Official Google Mac Blog] More »

Freckle Tracks Time And Clients Quickly And Simply

9:00PM Kevin Purdy | Just-released webapp Freckle isn’t, as it proclaims, a whole-cloth re-thinking of time tracking, billing, and client management, but it is refreshingly light, agile, and easy to get into. Like Remember the Milk and other text-aware apps, it doesn’t require learning an entirely new input system, but knows that “1h35m” and “1:35″ mean the same thing. The AJAX-saturated interface requires very few refreshes, and the smart tagging system works well for those who tend to “organise” on the fly. The fleshed-out version of Freckle isn’t free, but they do offer 30-day trials on any account type, along with a very limited free account. Walk through screenshots and analysis of using Freckle for organizing billable hours and client work below.

Windows Automation Macro Recorder Free Today Only

12:00AM Kevin Purdy | Windows only: The Giveaway of the Day web site is featuring a small, simple, but effective macro recording tool for free until 3 a.m. EST on Dec. 2. Windows Automation Macro Recorder (WAMR), normally $US30, has a nicely clean interface that focuses on two main buttons, Record and Execute, and it records specifically timed mouse and keyboard movements and actions by default. You can choose what WAMR does and doesn’t notice in the options, rename your created macros, and schedule them inside the application for running whenever you’d like. For those without the programming chops or interest for AutoHotKey, or seeking a simple automation tool, WAMR could easily fit the bill. WAMR is for Windows systems only; the Giveaway method requires downloading, installing, and activating this software before the expiration date (17 hours from now in this case). If you only need to automate your web actions, try the iMacros Firefox extension. Windows Automation Macro Recorder [Giveaway of the Day] More »

Doodle Updates with Power Features, Facebook Integration

12:00AM Kevin Purdy | Doodle, the fast, free, and clean poll-maker/event-scheduler we last visited about two years ago, has updated with some helpful power-user features and web hook-ups that make organizing your parties and meetings easy. A new “Power Doodle” option appears when creating a meeting planner or poll, letting people answer with “If need be,” hiding certain poll options from certain respondents, and other tweaks. Doodle also has added exporting to Outlook, Google Calendar and other iCal-based calendars, and a Facebook app that lets you poll your friends without a separate URL—they don’t have to install the app, and non-Facebook-users can still be added. All in all, a pretty cool and non-spammy way to organize a party or meeting. Doodle [via Download Squad] More »