Description:
Chagim displays the Gregorian (English) dates of the major Jewish holidays, the holidays can be viewed sorted by dates in the Gregorian or in the Jewish calendars.
Update Description:
v2.2.1:
- Fixes a bug that caused a reset on the Treo 600.
v2.2:
- You may select which holidays to add to the Date Book.
- You may select to add just the first day of the holidays, all the days of the holidays, and/or the first evening.
- Chagim can delete records that it added to the Date Book.
- Chagim now shows a short description of the holidays.
v2.1:
- Added scrolling support to the main page.
- No longer limited to selecting only 12 favorite holidays. You can now select any number of favorite holidays.
- Added a new All category which shows all the holidays.
- Added an option to remember last category. If this option is checked, the next you launch Chagim, it will show the last category you viewed. If this option is not selected, the Favorites category is displayed.
NOTE: The up and down hard keys no longer change the year that you are viewing. This is because the keys are now used to scroll the page if needed.
Preferences and favorites you have specified in version 2.0 will be retained after installing version 2.1.
Bugs fixed in version 2.1:
The previous button was broken in version 2.0. When viewing holidayssorted in Hebrew order, the button didn't do anything.
v2.0 include:
- Displays the dates of all the major, minor, modern holidays, fast days, and Rosh Chodeshim. These holidays are categorized into pages that can be accessed from the pulldown list in the top right corner of the screen.
- If you have a Palm hard key associated with Chagim, it will cycle through the holiday categories if you press it.
- You can select which holidays to display on the first page that appears when you run Chagim.
- You may now jump to any year by entering the year into a new dialog box.
- Tapping on the year will show you a list of years that you can select from.
- Tapping on a holiday will show you the Hebrew dates that the holiday spans and the Gregorian dates of each day in the holiday.
- You may specify your location, i.e. if you are in the Diaspora or in Israel
- Chagim can place the dates of the holidays and Rosh Chodeshim into the Palm Date Book
v1.1 adds the following features:
- Displays the dates for Rosh Hodeshim (the first day of the Hebrew months)
- Allows you to view dates for the first evening of the holidays
Bug fixes include:
- Fixed calculation of Yom HaShoah and Tisha B'Av dates. These holidays are advanced or postponed so that they do not fall on Shabbat.
- Fixed error with redrawing the screen after the menu status bar is erased.
Reviews:
**** [Apr 8, 2008] by Carol
Useful & flexible. Thanks Moshe Shmia for writing this and making it available.
***** [Mar 14, 2007] by Undrline
:( I upgraded from my Zire, and it continued to work perfectly on the Tungsten C, and now that I've upgraded to a Treo 680, it no longer works . . . it causes soft resets, even when you're in a completely unrelated program, such as Versamail. A couple of times I would have a soft reset loop, such that I had to hard reset. It makes me very sad; I love this program. If you follow the link to the home site, the version isn't even as recent as the one here. So, this year, I installed it long enough to add dates to the Palm Datebook, then took it off, and went to HebCal (http://www.hebcal.com/hebcal) for other items. The plus of that site is that it has Shabbos times, the downside is having access to those handy little synopses of each holiday, and being able to choose holidays. Maybe someday I'll take the time to email him and look for an update, but for now, I'll just express my dismay here.
***** [Apr 19, 2004] by RA Braithwaite
As a religious scholar this is just what I need.
***** [Apr 2, 2004] by Undrline
The best Jewish Holiday program! Thank you for creating it. Works fine on Zire. Some changes I'd like to see: >>Undo Datebook Add - because Chagim adds a whole year's worth of dates at once - lets say you suddenly decide you don't want all the Rosh Chodeshim added - it'd be nice not to have to delete each one manually. >>No notes - I understand the need, but maybe you could come up with a different way than a note that says "Added by Chagim" to every holiday - they take up memory ... BTW - do I just install the newest version on top of the old one?
**** [Feb 2, 2004] by Dan
Good program. Does not work on TREO 600.
***** [Aug 15, 2003] by Arye Ephrath
Excellent program! Short, sweet, and to the point. It did everything I needed done, and then some. The user interface is clean, efficient, and easy.
***** [Jan 16, 2003] by Miriam
Simply outstanding. It seems to have all the Jewish holidays calculated from now to eternity... well, at least for the next 10 years, after that I gave up trying to find out the limit. I just got my first palm and this program was very easy to use. I highly recommend it!
***** [Feb 26, 2002] by Yo'av
Excellent application. Could be kept apart from the datebook, but more importantly, it could be inserted into the datebook nice clear and easy. Points out the Erev Chags as well. Highly recomended.
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