What does a calendar widget do to market to a mom? I'm kinda scared. I'm okay with the calendaring I have no, and I've also installed Executive Assistant Free on my tablet to pull my Google calendar info and my Touchdown into one widget. But it's not so good that I want to install it on the phone if I can find something a) not ugly and b) flexible in terms of sizing.

Well, I mean, first it's called Cozi with an i. There's a red flag right there. Heh. It's probably nothing you'd notice in the widget, it's just the program as a whole is not a businessy type of thing. It has a shopping list and place where you can keep track of "family memories," you can import your kids' school schedule, that sort of thing.

The widget is available 2x3, 3x3, 4x2, 4x4. I use it 4x2 over top of my Astrid premium 4x2, so those two take up that whole screen. But it works; it caused me to remember I had the convention scheduling call today, so I had the papers out and ready when they called.

What does a calendar widget do to market to a mom? I'm kinda scared.

"Keep your family connected" type messaging, meal planning tools, sponsoring mommy-blogs and parenting podcasts. Nothing to be scared of, I don't think.

A widget has podcasts? I was kinda just looking for something that read existing Google calendars. Not an app. It does use Google calendars, right? Will I have to wade through a forest with a machete to get it to do just that?

A widget has podcasts?

No, I mean they sponsor parenting podcasts - that's who they advertise to.

My HTC calendar widget integrates everything--both google calendars and the facebook birthday and events calendars, plus whatever is synced from my PC.

There's a month view, an agenda view (both full-screen), and a 4x1 that lists one or two upcoming appointments. It's fine for what I need.

I was kinda just looking for something that read existing Google calendars.

Oh, okay, this probably isn't for you, then. The option to sync it in with Google Calendar is pretty simple. [link]

But it's not a back and forth. It shows up as a synced, uneditable, calendar event. I'm playing now to see how easily it updates once I update over on Google.

The widgets in Honeycomb and Gingerbread that come with the OS (including whatever came on with Touchwiz and Sense) were just fine. Naked ICS is no happy for me.

Yeah, all I need is widget, not app.

I really like the widgets that come with Business Calendar, but that's mostly because I really like Business Calendar. Best Google Calendar syncing calendar program I've ever used, though I hear CalenGoo is nice too.

You ever get the feeling a company slid sideways into their software niche? Touchdown is the only Nitrodesk application I've ever had any use for, and it's AWFUL. Unfortunately, it's the only Exchange solution approved by my bosses for Android, but I've never seen a worse Android interface on any serious app.

Not only were they persistently uninformed when I tried to ask them about Tasker/Locale (seriously, we both have Google), but now I'm at their website because I can't find out within the software how to set my signature or change my Exchange server setting, and the help is in PDF form. I'm on a tablet, so it's not the worst, but when your biggest app is for the phone form factor, WTF PDF?

Also, really, I'm not supposed to have to go the help documents (which are 5 separate PDFs) to find either of those two functions. It's not supposed to be complicated, and using the "menu" option would be a great leap forward for usability. I would assume it's a port, but I can't imagine what it was ported from (and why they thought wood grain was a good look--I need to find a new skin, stat--my tablet feels like a station wagon now).