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There's no shortage of alternative calendar apps for your iPhone.
They run the gamut from free to pricey and clunky to elegant.
But a new calendar app, Sunrise, combines the best of these – it's free, but it's also easy to use, combining with your Facebook and Google calendars, while looking flashy at the same time.
Check it out in the App Store.
Here's how it works.
Tap the app the start it up
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Pair it with your Facebook account to automatically sync your friends' birthdays and Facebook events
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Tap OK to give the app permission to access Facebook
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If you want to sync with your Google Calendar as well, tap on Connect
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Log in with your Google credentials
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Give it permission to access your Google data
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It will import all of your appointments and events
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Just like that, your Facebook and Google calendars are synced up
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With a quick glance around, we can see that our Facebook friends' birthdays are here
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Tapping on a day reveals its agenda
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Creating a new event is as easy as tapping the plus sign in the top-right corner and filling in its details here
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We've created a test event and will now change the time and date it takes place
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Tap any date you want to set it on that day, then select the time the event takes place
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Tap on Location to enter where the event is
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Select one that appears from the list
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When you're all done, tap Add
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Your event is officially saved in your calendar
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Navigate to the date of the event and it appears in the itinerary below
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Tap on it to reveal a more detail-oriented view
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Up for a laugh?
Jill Zitron
