SaiSuke
Unless you want your blog that looks like a failure whale, you must find ways of business for blogs in your life.
Google Calendar has been an asset for me (as far as programming is), but unless I got a strong signal for my iPhone, the Google Calendar web application has been totally useless (at least on AT & T).
Fortunately, I discovered an iPhone app called SaiSuke (Say Software), which allowes me to synchronize with Google Calendar (both directions) on the air without touching Outlook or iTunes.
Since the iPhone app is quite expensive (around $ 10), May you want to check the review below to decide whether this is good to soft skip lunch in a restaurant (and brown bagging just for a day).
The Good
One feature I really appreciated SaiSuke was the ability to easily create calendar events, and configure alerts. Like Google Calendar, you can choose to be notified by e-mail, SMS or a pop up (or even three).
I find this to be very useful for blogs as life can sometimes drown in your blog hobbies, and having a little reminder is an excellent way to maintain the momentum (especially during this political and financial tragedy we are all in life).
Another feature is the ability to share your calendar by SaiSuke, which is great for the group blogs with multiple authors (or even for those of you courage to share your calendar with the display of your readers).
Last (but not less) I appreciated the opportunity to settle my calendar week. Users are able to shorten your week from 7 days to 5 (just in case you want to avoid posting on the weekends) or even choose what day your blog week should start on (for example, as a Wednesday or Thursday instead of Sunday or Monday).
The Bad
While SaiSuke do a few powerful features, he had some trouble too.
The first was unable to create repeating events, which means that if you want to set up a calendar dedicated to blogs, you have to do from Google Calendar to the end, not SaiSuke.
To add more salt to the wound, the repetition of events created on Google Calendar are unalterably on SaiSuke, which means that I must change from my computer later if my schedule changes, instead of easily from my iPhone.
Last but not least, there is no SaiSuke in landscape mode, which means that those of you hands with basketball (like me) do not type in the layout which is the Portrait default for most applications iPhone.
No Aspiring rivals?
Although there are many power applications in the calendar app Apple store (like SmartTime the Left Coast Logic), most of them do not allow you to synchronize your data elsewhere (a Deal Breaker for me as the iPhone and your computer can still be damaged in a storm relief or worse, stolen).
Although there is another iPhone app called GooSync which SaiSuke May challenge in the future by the iPhone synchronize your calendar with Google Calendar, their app May never realize its potential as Steve Jobs did not fire Green for third party applications to connect to the iPhone calendar (and I suspect it never will).
Conclusion
SaiSuke is an interesting application, and is one of the many applications of time management that I use to help me blog.
Hopefully Saysoft examine not only the addition of landscape mode (for those who have no piano fingers), but also extended to other online calendars such as Yahoo Calendar and Zoho (not all blogger loves Google).
