Mozilla Sunbird 0.8 for Mac OS X

You hate Entourage, and you’re not particularly fond of iCal. You’ve waited endlessly for Nighthawk, Contactizer Pro is too complicated, and you want a native app instead of using Google Calendar or another web calendar. And, since you’re saving money for an iPhone 3G, you don’t want to spend any money on a calendar app.

Maybe it’s instance to look at Mozilla Sunbird 0.8 for Mac OS X. It’s developed by the same citizens who brought us Firefox and Thunderbird. It’s nearly identical to the Lightning calendar plugin for Thunderbird, but doesn’t require that e mail app to run. Upon first

startup, Sunbird will import events and tasks from your existing calendar application.

The UI is plain and simple, probably considering that is a multi-platform application (Windows, Linux, and Solaris in addition to Mac OS X) that shares a lot of cipher amoung the different flavors. Sunbird can tie into CalDAV servers such as the one in Mac OS X Server 10.5, and can subscribe to any .ics format shared calendars. In limited analyzing, Sunbird felt responsive in searches and was quite stable for betaware.

Sunbird, of course, is free. whether you are searching for a new calendar app, give it a try.

[Source] Steven Sande