The Backpack Calendar

Very iCal-like month view, which is a great design. Borrow from the best, I say. And it one-ups iCal with its slick natural-language date parsing — just type “10am client meeting” to get an event titled “client meeting” that starts at 10:00 a.m. Also does SMS reminders for events, which another area where web-based calendars are better than desktop calendars.

★ Thursday, 27 July 2006