The folks behind the Pocket Informant calendar and task manager app for iOS are preparing to launch version 2.0. It will be available as a free upgrade for existing users.

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One of the most powerful, customizable calendar apps for Windows Mobile, iOS, and BlackBerry is now available for Google Android. After several months of beta testing, WebIS has officially launched Pocket Informant for Android. It’s available from the Android Market at an introductory price of $5.99.

The app offers month, day, week, and agenda calendar views and you can customize the look and feel of each. For instance you can choose whether to show text for appointments in the crowded month view on a tiny screen. And you can choose between a column week view which looks like the default Android calendar or a week view which gives each day a box and populates it with appointment text so you can see a whole week at a glance.

Aside from offering more control over the look and feel of your day, week, and month views, Pocket Informant also makes it easy to create and edit appointments — and offers a feature that is missing from Google’s calendar app for Android for some baffling reason: the ability to move an appointment between different Google calendars.

Pocket Informant also has an integrated task manager which allows you to sort apps by status, category, priority, or other criteria. If you like you can also configure the app to show tasks with due dates in the calendar view.

The Pocket Informant calendar can be synchronized with any or all of your Google Calendars, and you can configure the task manager to synchronize your data with web-based to do list Toodledo.

If you were using the beta version of Pocket Informant for Android, you’ll have to uninstall it before installing the full version. Some of your settings will still be saved though.

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Astrid is a To Do list or task manager app for Google Android. I’ve never really loved the user interface, but I’ve been using it almost as long as I’ve been using Android, because it’s one of the only free apps that supports synchronizing your tasks with the web-based Remember The Milk task service. Unfortunately, the developers pushed out a new version of the app today, along with a note that future versions would no longer support Remember The Milk sync.

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Astrid 3.5 does add beta support for synchronizing your tasks with Google Tasks, but Google Tasks is a pretty barebones task manager. You can also sync your data with Producteev.

In the meantime, existing Astrid/Remember The Milk users have a few options. You can either continue using the current version of Astrid while declining future updates, pay for a Remember The Milk Pro account at $25 per year so you can use the official RTM app for Android, or find another solution.

I’m thinking about switching to Toodledo for my task management anyway, since that’s the service Pocket Informant already syncs with, and I’m a big fan of Pocket Informant’s mobile task and calendar apps. But I really do like Remember The Milk, so I might just pony up the cash for a Pro account eventually.

Out of Milk is a free app for Google Android 1.5 and up that lets you create three different types of lists: Shopping, To Do, and Spice Rack.

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The To Do list is probably the simplest of the bunch, letting you create multiple lists with as many items as you like. When you’re done with an item on your list, just tap on it and click “Done.” You can also edit, move, or delete items on your list.

The Shopping list works pretty much the same way — but there’s one killer feature: Support for barcode scanning. Want to add items to your shopping list without taking the time to tap out words on the keyboard? Just scan the barcode on that empty cereal box in your cupboard and Out of Milk will add the item to your list.

The Spice Rack lets you create a list of spices in your cabinet and includes a preloaded list of common spices so you can just pick the ones you have instead of entering them manually.

Out of Milk also lets you share lists by email or SMS.

The only thing keeping me from switching from Astrid to Out of Milk full time is that it currently doesn’t offer a way to synchronize your tasks with an online service such as Remember the Milk.

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Remember the Milk is a popular, web-based tool for managing tasks. You can use it to store reminders to take out the trash or pick up groceries, or just about any other task you’d like a reminder for. You can set due dates for tasks or sort tasks by tag, location, or other criteria.

The folks at Remember the Milk also offer a Pro service that lets you sync your task list to apps for Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, Android, and iPhone. A Pro account will set you back $25 per year. The mobile apps are all available as free downloads, but you need to pony up for a subscription if you want to keep using them after  a free trial period expires.

Or at least, that’s how it used to work. Today Remember the Milk launched a new version of its iPhone app which works without a Pro account. What’s the catch? You get a limited feature set. If you’re using the free version, you’ll only be able to synchronize your tasks once every 24 hours — and you’ll have to do it manually. Still, this is a great way to try the service before deciding if you’re going to use it enough to justify paying for a full year’s membership.

Pro users will continue to get unlimited auto-syncing, the ability to keep your tasks synced across multiple devices, and push notifications for reminders. You can either sign up for a Pro account at the Remember the Milk web site or make your purchase from within the iOS app.

The Blackberry, Windows Mobile, and Android apps still require Pro Accounts to function.

Remember the Milk for iOS is available as a free download from the App Store.

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WebIS has launched an updated version of Pocket Informant for the iPhone. As I’ve mentioned in the past, Pocket Informant provides iPhone users with a highly customizable calendar and contact app. The company also makes Windows Mobile and BlackBerry versions of the software.

There’s a huge list of new features and bug fixes in Pocket Informant 1.3. But here are a few of the big ones:

• Add map locations for events
• Email tasks and events
• New landscape column week view
• Add Task button in the Celandar and Today views

There are also improvements that should improve synchronization with Google Calendar. You can find a complete list of changes in the release notes. And you can find a more detailed look at the mapping feature at the WebIS blog.

Pocket Informant 1.3 for the iPhone is available from the iTunes App Store for $12.99. There’s also a free version available with limited features, but it hasn’t been updated since March — so it doesn’t including location mapping or the other new features.