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Windows 2000/XP (Sorry, no Win9X/ME/NT systems)
Free-Cal is a simple calendar program. It won't keep track of appointments and it doesn't try to "simplify your life." Instead, it just displays a calendar, sort of like the one in your check book. It's for those times when you want to know things like, "What's the third weekend in July?"
With that in mind, I set out to find a program that just displayed a calendar. Well, I couldn't find one. It seemed that the calendar program was always an adjunct to some other function, like appointment tracking, or sat in the system tray, or was too big and slow.
The goal was to keep Free-Cal small and fast. Free-Cal is just 48k. It can sit in your quick launch menu and launch as fast as if it were memory resident. It can display one or more months and doesn't take up a lot of screen real-estate.
Free-Cal also keeps tracks of all federal holidays and many secular and religious events. You can edit the Free-Cal.ini file to add your own events. In a future release I hope to add a dialog to add and remove events without the need to edit the Free-Cal.ini file. I'm also working on moon phases (the calculation is straight forward) but have not come up with a good idea for indicating them on the calendar. Got an idea? Send it to me. Users often have the best view of how these things should work.
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