Our Webtop family has grown to include a personal Calendar, a perfect complement to Laszlo Mail and Contacts. As we said earlier, Calendar is the most requested application and, while we’ve taken a lot of time to get this right, we have decided to release it a little early — as a Preview — because we want to know what you think.

There is a lot to experience on goWebtop but here’s a few highlights:

• Check out the cool transitions between Day, Week and Month views
• Quickly drag and drop in day or week view to quickly create or move events
• Easily edit details for an event in the details panel. Set events to recur, change the start and end time, go all-day etc.
• Add and subscribe to loads of Calendars: Make sure you check out icalshare.com and add whatever interest you.
• Share your Calendar: Easily publish your calendar so others can see it. Just select your calendar, click publish, copy the URL and send it out to friends so they can subscribe to it. Simple.
• Jump around … on the mini-calendar
• Take a step back and admire the newly implemented z-ordered windows for Mail, Contacts and Calendar. Bring any window or app to the front at anytime.
• We’ve also beefed up the help so you can get a good overview of all the features
• Check out some of the screen shots to get a quick idea of what it looks like - recommend you try it and see what it’s like - it’s free
• We’ve also added a FAQ to answer some of the more traditional questions, so let us know if something is missing

This Calendar preview is for exploring, testing and impressing friends, family and pets. While we plan to migrate your calendar entries to future deployments, remember this is beta software, so make sure you keep your important events stored in an alternative location.

More features are coming in the final 1.0 product but are not in this preview release:

• Unique event SmartObject! You will be able to drag an event into an email compose window, where your event will appear as an attachment. While non-webtop users will see it as an iCal file, Webtop users can simply drag attachments into their Calendar.
• Set reminders so you don’t forget an upcoming event
• Handy ‘Today’ button
• Change which calendars an event is associated with

Let us, and everyone else, know what you think — your feedback will help us make it even better.

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