Please could you explain how the trial is restrictive? You can run it 40 times, with each trial lasting 24 hours. Unless you quit it every five minutes, it will be a long time before you use up the trial. The trial was designed to be more flexible than one that ran out automatically after a month.

The idea of a trial for me is to see how a product works in its full capacity. Being nagged or reminded all the time that its a trial or placing restrictions and limits on the products functionality just interferes with the experience and annoys the hell out of you. I start and restart my computer several times a day. This "Trial" will not give me the full experience of using the product unimpeded. There is enough annoying stuff being thrown up at us on our computer screens as it is. Drop the 24 hour limitation and get us hooked and watch the sales increase. PreMinder at least "Looks" like it might be worth the asking price. We just trailed Memoires and it was a total pain. But it did run for a week before it hit the annoying threshold and it was sent straight to the trash. Your product at least look nice and we would give it a second look if you drop the 24 hr run limit. Where as Memoires unless they give it a total rethink and reprice are out of the race. It appears we are still looking for that calendaring solution. If we can have an uninterrupted look at your product for a reasonable time frame it may be PreMinder. Utill then unfortunately not.

The idea behind the trial was not to lock it to a fixed period of time, so you could use it for a day then leave it for a few days without the trial period expiring. Thanks to your kind 'review', not actually based on my product's performance, I am now saddled with a half-star rating. You could have at least sent me an email and I could have worked out a different demo for you.

As I’m sure you can appreciate we all work differently on our computers. It is difficult to create a solution that suites all users. But perception is key. We did down load the product and launched it and liked the look of it but once we read there were restrictions it was unfortunately all over. We perceived the restrictions like most of these products were just another waste of our valuable time. We didn't bother any further. We didn't want yet another product wasting our time with restrictions and limitations. 40 did stand out as an interesting number how ever but so did 24 hours and 24 hours over rid the interest in 40. 40 sounded high and 24 sounded too low so we didn't investigate any further. And this was on the back of the week we just wasted reviewing Memoires . We didn't want to wast any more time with functionally limited software. We want a solution we can use for a period of time (much more than 24 hours) and that when we become hooked will seamlessly allow us to go to the Web site and make our payment and automatically have the registration entered for us. It needs to be easy for us. But then it is also unusual to have a developer respond to a post on their products at all never mind with in minutes of posting and then offer to negotiate on the trial restrictions. Kudos to you and yes if you are prepared to drop the 24 hr restrictions we are more than willing to give it a proper trial. But it will need to be at least 10 days. We just spent 7 on the last product and it wasn't near enough. I cant count the number of emails I have sent developers over the years that I have never received a reply too (even for products I have actually paid for) so who would have thought you would respond so immediately. So over to you.

Oh and just a note about your rating... Yes you see the problem with placing limits and restrictions on your "trials" is that as is happened here you run the risk of your review being based on the restrictions you have placed on your trial and not the actual software itself. If there were no restrictions on the trial software then the review would have been based on the software and not the restrictions that have ultimately gotten in the way of reviewing the product sans restrictions. Again perception is everything. Remove the restrictions and give us the opportunity to actually review the product and not its perceived/documented limitations. I know its a catch 22.

Oh my, so much agitation and a bad rating because of the trial options. I cannot follow the complaint at all. You can start it 40 times and it will work 24 hours each time unless you do not quit it sooner. Without any limitations in functionality. That is a very fair and clever offer in my opinion.
I remember many apps which had trial periods for 30 calendar days and often I did not find the time to check them out when my business took too much hold of me. I would have loved to have PreMinder's trial options then.

Its simple.If you want to sell your product, then make it easy for people to see if they like it and see if it works for them with out impeding the use of the application with too many limits and annoying reminders. If not there are a lot of other products around. And I have sent you an email asking to take advantage of the alternative trial as you suggested but have received no response from you. This is not "agitation" is just telling you what clearly most people are thinking but not telling you by the plethora of absent ratings posted here in the last 3 years and none for this version except for me. Make the trial 40 days on one trial and we will give it another look. Otherwise we are moving on. And I’m sorry but I think it is still a bit over priced for what it dose. But I also have to say its one of the nicest looking apps of this type we have seen so we are at least willing to give it another look if the trial restrictions were eased.

Oh boy. Clearly you are not reading my responses here. I’ll say it again for you. Everybody works differently. We reboot our computers up to 4-5 times a day so your restrictions would mean apart from having to click the splash screens telling us we have xx numbers of diminishing launches 4-5 times a day (Very annoying) the trial for us will be over in under 10-15 days. Not worth our time. Perhaps for others this would be tolerable. But not for us. This is the end of the discussion. Thank you for your time.

A 40 launch trial is more than generous. As a developer my own shareware grants 15 launches and there has been no negative feedback.

Hi,
The .ics/vcalendar import feature does not currently import alarms. I am planning to add this feature in the future, but it may take me a while. The other feature you appear to want is an option to automatically add alarms to new events; again this is feasible but will take a while to implement. As I'm just one person working on this in my spare time, development doesn't quite have the resources the iCal team no doubt have!
cheers
Alec

Hey Alec... thanks for the response. I appreciate your efforts, as well as all developers who create applications for us. As a retired and currently unemployed teacher (with NO income), I am very grateful for freeware available that makes me more productive and makes my life much easier. Your efforts are to be applauded.

George

Hi, not sure what you mean exactly by 'business weeks' but if you want the week display to start on a Sunday then you can set that. Choose from menu 'File > Preferences' and click on the 'Appearance' button. You can set whether to start the week on a Monday or a Sunday here.

Hi,
The only way I can reproduce this error is with a low screen resolution (800 x 600). Could you tell me what screen resolution your monitor has?
thanks

Alec

Hi,
I have now reproduced the bug at a screen resolution of 1024x768 as well. I have just posted a 0.5.0 update which should fix the problem. Please let me know if it works for you,
thanks
Alec

Hi Again... My MacUpdate notified me of the lastest version. I'll download it after I return home tonight, and install it in the morning. I'll be happy to let you know after I've installed it. Thanks for the response. It's a nice program, and after I do the update, I'll be happy to write the very good review I believe it deserves.

Hi... I just installed the latest update, and it was fine. I tried it on both of my Macs- a G5 with a 20 inch monitor, and my G4 iBook. No problems!

Hi,
Thanks for testing that, I'm glad to know it is working. Look forward to your review,
thanks
Alec