Adrian Try has a great post out highlighting five open source alternatives to Microsoft Outlook for the Linux desktop. The usual suggestions are there (Evolution, Thunderbird), but there are some other options you may not have thought of as well, like the Kontact suite for KDE, and Spicebird, a collaboration suite based on Thunderbird.
Personally, I’ve [...]

I noticed a new announcement in that familiar red font when using Google Calendar today. Looks like synchronization with Mozilla Sunbird is now officially supported! I know there have been ways of syncing the two around for quite some time, but it’s always nice get it all officially and (hopefully) flawless. Here’s what you [...]

Check out all the cool screenshots at the Google Code page for Gcalcli

Reader/Listener Greg wrote in a while ago and pointed a really great CLI tool for managing your calendar.
From Roaring Penquin:

Remind is a sophisticated calendar and alarm program. It includes the following features:
* A sophisticated scripting language and intelligent handling of exceptions and holidays.
* Plain-text, PostScript and HTML [...]

When Evolution or Korganizer are overkill for your needs, you may try Gremind. It’s just a simple app that runs in your system tray that provides you with nice, pop-up reminders at specified times. I could see me myself using this for smaller tasks that don’t need to go on my calendar, but that [...]