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Keeping on schedule and
up-to-date on all of your comings and goings can be a hefty task in and of
itself. In this modern, tech-oriented world of ours it’s easy to see why
mobile, electronic calendars were one of the first tools to get a facelift and
help us stay on track.
It could be easily argued
that the iPhone calendar app heyday took off about a year ago, but there have
been quite a few advancements made since then. Now savvy e-calendar tools like
Sunrise, Tempo and Fantastical have developed that have not only re-shaped the
conventional face and usage of calendar apps, they’ve brought them to an
entirely new level of functionality. Thus the e-calendar battle has begun, and
it’s starting to spill over into the iPad neighborhood.
Particularly noteworthy is
Sunrise which is an app created by two ex-designers for Foursquare and was
recently put underway for iPad. It carries all of the benefits of the model
specified for the iPhone, but it even offers a few new additions to the mix.
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The iPhone-specific Sunrise
version has been updated to allow users to view a three-day work week schedule,
but with the iPad design users can scroll-view a list of a particular day’s
planned events, as well as a new weekly and monthly screening mode that
poignantly illustrates exactly how much free time one would have in between
your various activities.
Let’s face it, the Sunrise
app has really pulled out all of the stops for both the iPhone and iPad
versions making it incredibly simple and easy to schedule your short-term and
long-term events, even while you’re on the go. Quick, fluid pull-down listings
of common events like scheduling call-reminders, meetings, etc. can be easily
tapped and put into place in seconds. You can even add in a map of the location
of a specific meeting spot, contacts of others who will be attending and other
notes of interest. Supporting both Google and iCloud calendars, the Sunrise app
also draws related information from your social networking presence, mapped
directions courtesy of Google Maps and even the day’s weather report. This is
far more than a simple meat and potatoes calendar app.
Guest Author Bio :- Ezra Melino is an all-around-geek turned serious blogger out of
North Carolina who not-so-secretly relishes an in-print love affair with everything
from technology and multimedia entertainment to film and the hopper. He has written for
and managed multiple tech blogs that are devoted to exploring new technological
developments all around the world.
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