Comments on: A Touch of Daylite

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:50:55 +0000

Actually, SmartTime by Left Coast Logic has had a landscape week and month view since last year. Here’s a link: http://www.leftcoastlogic.com/smarttime/

The Week view shows busy time in the margins, and also can show each entire day, instead of a snipped. The Month view shows how busy each day is by the background shading.

By: Daylite Reviews

Daylite Reviews — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:32:14 +0000

@iPhone app reviews Daylite Touch really is a great product, killer interface, great price and the ability to work with the team on the go is the biggest pro to the app. The only downside is it’s syncing ability, I’ve spoken to people at MarketCircle and I was told the syncing issues on Daylite and Daylite touch is a Apple problem, the thing is if it’s an apple problem and you build apps for their platform it’s your problem too.

By: iPhone app reviews

iPhone app reviews — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:22:40 +0000

Daylite is another advancement to the iPhone which is storming its way into the enterprise world. Daylite sounds very useful, and the screen shot alone is amazing. I like the way it uses the full screen to display schedules.

By: Donovan Roddy

Donovan Roddy — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:02:08 +0000

I’ve been running a small 5 man team with each person in a different part of th US and other areas internationally. I will say Daylite had very few bugs when I used it as an individual project with billings (billings works great but lacks on features) but as MarketCircle pushed out Daylite server to allow teams to collaborate easier I’ve only had headache after headache with the the program. For instance, the way they handle licensing is awful, at times if you don’t log out prior to closing daylite it will tell you that all your licensing are in use so the person who has access to the Daylite Server has to log in and wipe any local databases in order to get it to work properly. Another thing you may experience is Daylite will continuously crash if the system crashes once and you try to reconnect to the database. The only work around I’ve found for that is to create a temp database, connect to it and then delete it and then attempt to reconnect to the database that was crashing. The newest bug I’ve found since the latest build release 3.9.3 (As of July 10, 2009); I have daylite set up as an automatic start up program as with mail, if Daylite has not started completed I receive an error with my mail application saying I can only connect with one database at a time. If I don’t use daylite as the start up program Mac Mail starts perfectly each time. Some may say it’s a Mac Mail issue (I believe this is a Daylite Mail Integration Issue), being that its an OS native application I think Daylite needs to look into it and give their subscribers on possible issues and keep their customers in the loop which they fail to do (being on twitter and trying to cut bad buzz about their products doesn’t count). Another thing potential buyers should be aware of is if you’re purchasing this platform to work for teams Daylite currently has it priced at $189.00 but it’s $449.99 with support ‘Which You Will Need’ because for MOST USERS who just expect software bought to ‘just work’ out of the box you won’t find it with this product and if you didn’t purchase the support Daylite expects you to wait 3 days for them to respond to any issues you have and if you’re like me I can’t wait 3 days or more to have data that is critical to my business working. I questioned Daylite Staff on that issue and their reasoning was because they released a new product (Daylite Touch for the iphone) they couldnt answer support questions as fast as they used to because they were busy with the new product, so in other wards what they are saying is we’re going to be concentrating on the potential new wave of customers (more revenue) and put the customers that have already purchased on the backburner… temporarily… Ask yourself this question, when Microsoft or Apple pushes out a new product do they do stuff like this to their existing customers…?

The bottom line, I’m really upset because Daylites possible capabilities is the best in this realm for Mac users, I’ve seen the rest and I was really looking forward to using this with my team and being that I’ve purchased multiple licenses, plugins, hosting & computers It’s been a very bad experience. And I will continue to point out all the issues I run into in the hopes that people will not make the same mistake as I did or until Daylite corrects these issues and pays attention to the people that have already paid and not just potential new revenue.

Donovan Roddy
1.702.448.3435

By: Macworld Day 3: Best of Macworld 2009 | TheAppleBlog

Macworld Day 3: Best of Macworld 2009 | TheAppleBlog — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:26:01 +0000

[...] to the new scripting features, but the UI overhaul is just something that’s long overdue. Daylite Touch really redefines what an iPhone app is capable of doing. We had a chance to talk with Marketcircle [...]

By: MacWorld 2008: Novidades do dia 1 | bernabauer.com

MacWorld 2008: Novidades do dia 1 | bernabauer.com — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:29:49 +0000

[...] Filemaker Pro 10 foi lançado, Toast 10, um software de gravação de CD também foi lançado, Daylite Touch, um software ao estilo iCal para iPhone foi mostrado, Elgato liberou um novo hardware para os [...]

By: Macworld Day 1: Calm Before the Storm | TheAppleBlog

Macworld Day 1: Calm Before the Storm | TheAppleBlog — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:32:15 +0000

[...] Daylite Touch info was released by Marketcircle. Matthew Bookspan wrote a preview of what to expect from Daylite Touch. [...]

By: WebWorkerDaily » Archive Daylite Touch Coming Soon «

WebWorkerDaily » Archive Daylite Touch Coming Soon « — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:30:28 +0000

[...] though Daylite Touch won’t be released for a few months yet, The Apple Blog will be getting a look at the new app at next week’s Macworld [...]

By: T55

T55 — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:39:23 +0000

@Major Havoc: you probably can judge the ‘richfulness’ of Daylight Touch only by working with the actual app, but Marketcircle’s daylight touch page provides more info & screens. That’ll give you a pretty good idea for now.
http://www.marketcircle.com/daylitetouch/index.html

By: Matthew Bookspan

Matthew Bookspan — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:15:09 +0000

@Major Havoc – Fair point. I will write more later this week after I see the app in person.

By: Galley

Galley — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:49:09 +0000

BTW, that screenshot as viewed in NewsFire would probably have filled my 24″ screen.

By: Major Havoc

Major Havoc — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:30:42 +0000

That looks very nice. I love the fact it looks like it was designed, from the ground up, to look good and readable on the screen. Too many phone apps are just scaled-down versions of their full-screen originals and it shows. It looks very easy to read.

I have to disagree, though with this:

“From this screenshot, we can see a pretty rich Calendaring application.”

No, we can’t. There’s not enough to tells us much more than 1pm, 2pm, Monday, Tuesday, etc. It’s very readable but “pretty rich… application” is stretching it. We’d need to see more.