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Apple Releases Updated iCal 1.5.1

Posted by pudge on from the coolio dept.

An anonymous reader writes "iCal 1.5.1 is easier and faster use with its enhanced Info Drawer, To Do alarms and notes, and more keyboard short cuts. iCal 1.5.1 also includes improved time zone support and personalized calendar colors. You can visit the iCal homepage. Also, if you synchronize you'll need the latest iSync 1.2.1 for it to work with the new iCal." You can also update via Software Update, of course, and you need to update iCal before iSync.

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  1. Drop the drawers... by Incongruity · · Score: 4, Interesting
    iCal 1.5.1 is easier and faster use with its enhanced Info Drawer

    No it's not.

    I really don't see the value in having a "drawer" that isn't always attached to the primary (calendar) window but is there often enough that I have to keep that main window smaller in order to see the drawer when it is there. The alternative is to move the window because the drawer appears all but off-screen when I double click on any item/appointment in the calendar. (it used to bring up a small window that could be moved/resized inpendent of the main window.) I don't see the UI wisdom in forcing this on people -- there's no pref. to use to old windowing style and that is a real flaw, IMHO.

    -tcp

    1. Re:Drop the drawers... by sg3000 · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I prefer the drawer. The pop up window was an annoyance, particularly because you couldn't see enough information. First you type in the info, then you click the pop-up menu to set the alarm, and then you click the popup menu to write a note. Inputing a meeting was a six step process. Now, with the drawer, I can see all the info at once, without dealing with that floating window. And, it doesn't use up more desktop space.

      Of course, I've got a 17" PowerBook, so I've already got a surplus of desktop space anyway.

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    2. Re:Drop the drawers... by greenhide · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Okay, yeah....I was just realizing that I use the "mailboxes" window all the time in Eudora, which is *kind of* like a drawer.

      However, in both of these cases, it's being used for navigation and organization, much like a finder listing. In those cases, it makes sense. I don't think it makes sense when you're looking at a single item.

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  2. What happened to 1.5.0? by david-bo · · Score: 1, Interesting

    What happened to iCal 1.5.0?

  3. Sync with P800 - anyone? by capmilk · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In theory, iSync and iCal now sync with Sony Ericsson's P800 phone. In theory...

    I did get the contacts syncronized, but was not lucky at all with calender dates. iSync always ends up with "NSRangeException: [NSCFString substringWithRange:]: Range or index out of bounds"

    Anybody got an idea what that is about?

  4. No security yet for shared calendars by sld126 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I submitted this as feedback for the first version of iCal. Guess it didn't make it.

    iCal doesn't support WebDAV in digest mode, so your password is passed in cleartext. Digest mode may not be the strongest encryption, but some is WAY better than none.

    Of course you could mount the WebDAV disk in digest and just copy it over, but that's not the easy integration Apple promotes. And even then, don't try it in the Finder...

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    1. Re:No security yet for shared calendars by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

      It does work here at home... weird.

      Just tried a tcp sniffing of my ical packets to .Mac and I got:
      PUT /XXX/Sites/.calendars/XXX.ics HTTP/1.1
      User-Agent: DAVKit/0.1
      Authorization: Digest username="XXX", realm="XXX@mac.com", nonce="P4Wkxg==eb0b1653833734e219eb84176e09e00f14a 666b9", uri="/XXX/Sites/.calendars/XXX.ics", response="afc504aa1dac4217aaf2a105d02a6808", algorithm="MD5", cnonce="a2abba729157af9467b1739d5053bfbf", nc=00000001, qop="auth"
      Content-Length: 1497

      I also tried with my Apache server and it was the same.

      This is clearly Digest auth. I think this is more a problem of your server misconfigured than iCal things. I remember configuring a Digest thing in Apache requires some work...
      However, proposing some feedback on this thing with Apple might be a good idea (and sniffing your packets from and to your server to get more informations)

  5. Other things they forgot by sld126 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Publish to multiple places.

    Anyone have an internal work calendar and an external work calendar that would like them to be the same without duplicating each entry?

    Multiple authors.

    My wife(yes, I have one) & I share a family calendar, but only she can write to it. Isn't multiple authors the point of WebDAV?

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