George Reeves Calendar

Special thanks to Jim Nolt and Lou Koza for permission to use the George Reeves Calendar at The Adventures Continue website.

And special thanks to all those who reported bugs, suggestions, and historical corrections!

Look - on your desktop! It’s a calendar! It’s a tribute to George Reeves! It’s the -

Yes, it’s the George Reeves Calendar, strange software application from another planet, which came to your desktop with powers and abilities far beyond those of ordinary calendars!

The calendar is available for both Microsoft Windows® and Apple Macintosh®. And it’s free!

Today’s date is indicated by the S-shield (which in this illustration is February 15, 2009).

Holidays are indicated by the Superman-belt (for example, February 14).

Reminders are indicated by Clark Kent’s glasses (for example, February 8).

Click on a date and if something significant in the history of George Reeves happened on that date, then the information is displayed in the lower left-hand corner. In the picture above, I clicked on February 15th (as indicated by the dark grey outline surrounding that day) and learned that on that date in 1955, TV Fan magazine published an article about George entitled, “Superman is Only Human.”

If you hover your cursor over a date that has either a holiday or a reminder associated with it, then a tip window appears and displays the relevant information. In the example above, I placed my cursor over February 8th and was reminded that my sister Susan’s birthday is on that day.

Did I neglect to mention that the calendar is customizable? Well, excuse me! Yes, as a matter of fact, the calendar allows you to add reminders for significant dates. And, if you’re a real George Reeves history buff, you can even add your own user-defined events to the calendar! In addition, you can set the window background color as well as the font color to anything you like.

It seems like there’s something I’m forgetting to mention...what is it...oh yea!!!!

The calendar displays...

PICTURES!

As the screenshots directly above and below illustrate, you can add your own personal reminders to associate with a particular date. And, you can specify a time during the day when that reminder should be displayed. Why, you can even specify how often you want the reminder to occur: weekly, monthly, yearly, on the first Tuesday of every month, weekly on Mondays and Wednesdays, etc.

In the screenshot above, I clicked on December 24th and from the Reminder menu, selected the command “Add...”. That made the “Add Reminder for 12/24/2009” dialog appear as you see in the screenshot below. I then typed in the text of my reminder (in this case, a reminder about the party at my good friend Carl’s scheduled for Christmas Eve).

...of George, Jack Larson, Noel Neill, John Hamilton, and Robert Shayne, as well as various scenes from the Adventures of Superman, and pictures of other folks who have some connection to George or the Superman character. The calendar also plays animations created specially for the calendar. And as if that weren’t enough, you can even run a slide show of all the pictures contained within the calendar.

System Requirements:

The Windows version of the George Reeves Calendar requires Windows Vista™ or Windows XP™ or Windows 2000™ or Windows NT™.

This application will not run on earlier versions of the Windows operating system such as Windows 3.1. Sorry!

Disk Space Required:

Approximately 86 MB

Just click on this link:

George Reeves Calendar for Windows - version 3.0

This will download a program called Setup.exe to your computer. When you see the dialog that asks: “Do you want to run or save this file?” click the Save button. You will then see the “Save As” dialog which allows you to navigate to a location where the Setup.exe program will be deposited. Once you have navigated to the location of your choice, click the Save button. You should now see a progress window that gives you a report on the status of the download and an estimate of how much time it will take to complete. (It should take about one minute, depending on the speed of your internet connection.)

Once the download has completed, the progress window will announce “Download Complete”. If you have checked the box that reads: “Close this dialog box when download completes” the progress window will go away. At that point, you will have to navigate to the location where the download deposited the Setup.exe program. Once you find it, all you have to do is double-click Setup.exe and it will install the George Reeves Calendar on your PC.

On the other hand, if you did not check the “Close this dialog box when download completes” checkbox, then the progress window will remain open. All you have to do is to click the Run button in the progress window and this will launch the Setup.exe program, which will install the George Reeves Calendar on your PC.

A Note About Running Setup.exe For Those Who Already Had Version 2.0

If you have previously installed version 2.0 of the George Reeves Calendar on your computer, then you should first Uninstall version 2.0. Go to the Windows Control Panel and select Add/Remove Programs (or on Vista, Programs: Uninstall a program). Pick the George Reeves Calendar from the list and click Remove (or Uninstall) This will remove version 2.0 from your computer. Then, run the Setup.exe program for version 3.0 that you downloaded to install version 3.0 on your computer.

I know by now you’re thinking, “Wow! This is awesome. I must have this for my computer!” And you’re probably wondering, “How much is it going to cost me? How do I get my copy?? What’s the catch???”

Well friends, the answer to the first question is, “Not one thin dime!” That’s right -- the George Reeves Calendar is absolutely free, courtesy of Kal-El Software.

There is no catch -- no salesperson will call. (At least not one from Kal-El Software!)

How do you obtain your copy? Read on...

For Microsoft Windows® Users:

For Apple Macintosh® Users:

System Requirements:

The Macintosh version of the George Reeves Calendar - version 2 requires Mac OS X™ Version 10.4.7 or higher. It may run on earlier versions of Mac OS X™, but it has not been tested on earlier versions of the Mac OS X™ operating system.

Disk Space Required:

Approximately 86 MB

Unfortunately, there is no version 3.0 of the George Reeves Calendar for the Mac. (If you are a Mac user and would like to see a version 3.0 for the Mac, please let me know.)

However, version 2.0 is still available. Just click on this link:

George Reeves Calendar for Mac - version 2

This will download a disk image called George Reeves Calendar for Mac v2.dmg to your computer. (It should only take a few minutes, depending on the speed of your internet connection.) Once the download is nearly complete, you will see an alert that says:

“George Reeves Calendar for Mac v2.dmg contains an application.

Are you sure you want to continue downloading ‘George Reeves Calendar for Mac v2.dmg’?”

Click the Continue button.

After a moment, the George Reeves Calendar for Mac v2 volume will open and you should see the George Reeves Calendar application inside. Simply drag the George Reeves Calendar application to your Applications folder. The application is now installed.

Note: in order for the calendar to work properly, it must be installed in the Applications folder on your Mac. If you drag/drop the George Reeves Calendar application to any other location, it will not run.

Once you’ve dragged/dropped the application into the Applications folder, you can unmount (aka eject) the George Reeves Calendar for Mac v2 volume and move the George Reeves Calendar for Mac v2.dmg disk image to the trash.

Pictured above: the Windows® version of the calendar

Adding a reminder using the Windows® version.

Why is Professor Meldini so happy? Could it be because he just downloaded his free George Reeves Calendar?!

What’s New in Version 3.0?

Version 3.0 contains bug fixes for some minor bugs that were reported in version 2.0 as well as corrections to some of the historical events that were included in version 2.0.

Several new historical events have been added along with lots of new pictures.

Please note: If you have trouble downloading the calendar (I know that for some folks downloading such a large file may not be an option) then I will be glad to mail you a copy on CD. Just send send me an email with your name, address and $5.00 for the cost of shipping and handling.

Version 3.0 was released on 02/15/2009