Recently I’ve been trying to rid myself of Microsoft products and looking at online alternatives. So far I’ve switched my main email over to gmail whilst using Mozilla Thunderbird as a POP client onto my gmail account and this is working great. One thing I was missing however was a calendar, Thunderbird currently only has a Beta plugin to handle calendars plus I really wanted something accessible online and could be easily shared. First I looked at Google Calendar, it’s got a nice UI, it’s speedy, integrates into your google search homepage as with GMail but it was lacking one crucial thing, sync with my Palm PDA. After much searching I gave up trying to sync (I did have some success with the opensource remotecal add-in for Outlook but as I wanted to ditch Outlook this was pointless). Anyway then I found AirSet, this is a great online personal information management tool, which provides group and personal calendars, contacts, blog and more. The biggest factor for me was the nice little hotsync component they supply that lets me sync the Palm so I can add appointments or contacts on the Palm or online, very handy!
Anyway go www.airset.com to register for a free airset account and try it for yourself
