If a full-blown calendar application like Evolution of Lightning is overkill for your needs, try Day Planner. This simple yet efficient calendaring utility sports a refreshingly simple interface and it's ridiculously easy to use.

In this short video tutorial, I explain and show you how to set up Mozilla's calendaring application Sunbird to synchronise with Google Calendar.

"If you're the kind of person who likes scribbling free-form tasks and notes in your day planner, then Planner might be a good fit for you. In this blog post, I'll show you how to use Planner to organize the things you need to do by the day you need to do them, check the things you need to do, mark tasks complete, and review what you've finished. I assume that you've already got GNU Emacs 22 installed and that you're comfortable with using Emacs as a text editor, although it might not yet be your way of life. (Just you wait! Planner was the thing that pushed me over the edge. ;) ) ..."

Mozilla's Sunbird calendaring application lives perpetually in the shadow of its siblings Firefox and Thunderbird, garnering just a fraction of the developer effort and publicity lavished on the browser and email client. Nevertheless, it is slowing maturing into a reliable tool worthy of the Mozilla brand.

Sunbird, Mozilla's calendar application, supports extensions just as Firefox and Thunderbird do. What kind of extensions work with a calendar? How about being able to get a weather forecast when you're setting up a golf date, or exporting your desktop calendar to a Web service?

"I am happy to report, that the 0.7 of Lightning and Sunbird has been completed and is now available via AMO and the Calendar Project website..."

The Mozilla Calendar Project developers have announced the last and final release of their standalone application Sunbird 1.0 Beta 1 as their focus moves to the Lightning calendar add-on for Thunderbird

Sunbird is a calendar application built by the people at the Mozilla Foundation. It s entirely standalone: it doesn't require the bulk of another application to manage all of your appointments and events.

After about five years of development, the Mozilla Sunbird 1.0 is nearly ready to fly out the door. The 1.0 beta made its way to the servers this week, and Mozilla’s calendaring app is almost gold.