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Presdo is an online scheduling application that helps you to quickly, and attractively, schedule events with a group of people.  It’s very minimalistic from the get go, only requiring you to type in what you want to do with your guests before bringing you to another page where you can add locations and more event details.  It understands basic commands like “dinner with Jerry next week at 8pm” and remembers contacts you’ve added in the past.  You can add a location by entering in the exact address or you can do a search based on the type of place you’re looking for and the location.  Your guests can suggest different times and you can message back and forth from your event page, all without them having to sign up.  All of your events are listed on one page and you’ll be notified any time someone has made a change.

I really, really hate using the word “sexy” when referring to Web applications, but I’ll make an exception for Presdo.  It’s especially weird to refer to it in that way because it’s an online scheduling application — who knew scheduling dinner with friends could be so hot?  Here’s my screencast tour of Presdo:

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Wakerupper is a free wake-up call service that also doubles as a reminder service. You can try it out from the homepage without signing up for anything by entering in your call details. If you sign up for an account you can add multiple phones to receive calls on, keep track of your calls, and set up ongoing calls. You can also record audio and Wakerupper will call you and play your message whenever you need it. It’s extremely straightforward and easy to use — no fancy features to get in the way of what the service is supposed to be used for.

One thing I was surprised about when trying it out, was that there’s no initial phone number verification call so I could schedule a call to anyones phone as long as I know their number. I do like the fact that I don’t have to worry about receiving and replying to annoying verification text messages, but I wonder if it would actually be useful to avoid wake-up call spam. There is an option at the end of the call to let Wakerupper know if you didn’t schedule the call, so that could be how they’re planning on policing the service. Here’s my screencast tour of Wakerupper:

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