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Paul Taylor is Personal Technology correspondent for the Financial Times. He’s also usually ahead of the game when it comes to spotting tech tools to make home business life easier. This past week, he’s all in a tungle about online meeting schedules.

Paul Taylor’s article starts with a suggestion.

“If you spend too much time playing telephone tag or e-mail ping-pong when setting up meetings with colleagues or contacts, it may be time to look at a new kind of browser-based software service that is designed to help schedule meetings.”

He’s taken the time to look at such software; 5 types in fact, but his favourite is tungle.com. This is why:

“Once downloaded, the Tungle Outlook plug-in takes less than 30 seconds to install and automatically synchronises with users' Outlook address books and calendars. This information is kept secure and locally on the user's machine, and is not uploaded or shared with anyone else or with Tungle.

Best of all, Tungle's instant messaging-style user interface makes it easy for users to understand and use straight away.

Tungle works in two modes. The first is for users who know each other well, such as a team of colleagues or family members, and want to share calendars. Tungle automatically examines everyone's calendars and enables the meeting co-ordinator to see when people will be available. For arranging meetings with people you do not share calendars with, you use the other mode - Tungle Spaces.”

If you want to have your meetings effortlessly lined up, Tungle may be the software you’ve been waiting for.

• Do you have a window? Paul Taylor, Financial Times, 23rd May 2008