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Last Update:
  • June 27, 2010
 Calendar Reminder screen shot

This program has been discontinued

Evan's Calendar Reminder is a freeware reminder program designed to allow the user to enter reminders using a calendar-like interface. These reminders then pop when the appropriate day rolls around. A friend of mine said he needed a program to remind him to call certain clients on specific days and I figured he shouldn't have to pay for software to do this, so I made this simple reminder program.

The application features an easy to user calander-like grid interface with point-and-click reminder editing. The application runs at startup and will pop up if there is a remdinder for that day.

Credits:

Interface icons and textures are by Paul Davey. You can visit his page here: Link to Paul's site

Version History:

Version 1.1.0.3
  • Fixed a line break encoding issue.

Version 1.1.0.2
  • Fixed a crash when editing a reminder.

Version 1.1.0.1
  • Fixed a crash when restoring the application after shutting down another full screen application.

Version 1.1
  • Added the ability to use your Google Calendar as your data source.
  • Fixed a spelling error.

Version 1.0
  • Rewrote the application in C# to be more manageable. Many stability problems have been fixed in the process.
  • Improved the usability of some of the interface controls.
  • Icon quality has been improved. The previous version had icons that had reduced quality, with respect to the artist's (Paul Davey) original creation. The application icon is now the author's original file.
  • Switched to XNA based rendering. The application now requires shader model 2.0 compliant rendering hardware.
  • The application now has an installer, which takes care of setting the program to run at startup.
  • Changed the data file location to a more correct location (not the user's documents folder anymore). If the data file from an older version is found, it will be converted, re-written to the new location, and then deleted.
  • The application no longer pops up when the time rolls around to the next day at midnight. The tray-icon will flash if there's a reminder for the new day, but the application will not pop up.
  • Added a countdown timer feature with an optional sound when the time expires.

Version 0.5.0.9
  • Render engine being a pixel-off was fixed.
  • Fixed innacuracies in date algorithm.

Version 0.5.0.8
  • If a reminder pops for a day and you click the check to return to calendar view, you can now switch back to message view with the same button.
  • When restoring from the tray icon, application window pops to front.
  • Render engine included with this release uses latest version of DirectX. You must have the latest version of DirectX 9 to use the program.

Version 0.5.0.7
  • Fixed some things with startup. If the render engine doesn't initiaize, it will retry a few times. Upon failure, the user now can click the "Retry" button in the failure message box. Since the render engine sometimes does not intialize if the system is still booting up, this allows the user to retry after the system has loaded up.
  • When browsing on the active month, the month text will be green rather than white and the current day is highlighted orange.
  • A few button animations added.

Version 0.5.0.6
  • Updated to use a render engine that does not require a supplement download.
  • Made the interface lines a more mild blue color.
  • Support for Winamp vis link (not yet released).
  • A few misc. bug fixes.

Version 0.5.0.5
  • Fixed issues with moving the window.
  • Fixed a grammar error in one of the messages.

Version 0.5.0.4
  • Program now waits 10 seconds when running at startup to avoid errors loading the graphics device while the system is booting up.
  • The program now prompts the user before setting itself to automatically run at startup.

Version 0.5.0.3
  • Fixed issue where the rendering device is lost when certain applications, such as fullscreen games, are run and cause the program to not render anything in the interface (requires render library version 0.5.0.1 or later).
  • Added option for "nobmfont" runtime parameter to use text-rendered fonts for the day numbers rather than image based numbers.

Version 0.5.0.2
  • Changed startup type from registry to shortcut in start menu.

Version 0.5.0.1
  • Added 5 second delay parameter to startup command in registry since the program sometimes would not run correctly at bootup.

Version 0.5.0.0
  • (first release)