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Apple Releases Updated iCal 1.5.1
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.
will automatically present you with them in the correct order - i.e. when you first update it ONLY shows you iCal.
Next time, you'll get the chance to download iSync.
Neither needs a reboot.
Mark
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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.
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Like many other people, I've had problems with iCal's interface from the start. I had hoped for some usability improvements with this upgrade but it seems to have actually gotten worse! Instead of the popup window to show details/information for an event, there is now a drawer that slides out from the side of the main window. The problem with this is that the tray is HUGE. If you keep your iCal window zoomed (like I assume most people do), you don't even realize at first that the drawer has slid out because it is completely off the screen. The solution to this is to make the main iCal window narrower, compressing the already-small calendar view even further. I have no idea why they chose to design the program this way, but I guess I'll keep hoping for the right changes in the NEXT version.
What happened to iCal 1.5.0?
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?
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...
You're just jealous because the voices only talk to me.
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?
You're just jealous because the voices only talk to me.
As a frequent traveller the biggest benefit for me from this release is the proper support for time zones.
:-)
You need to tick a box in the preferences panel to enable it but once on you get to specify the time zone as well as the time of the meeting (it defaults to the zone set for the clock). The display presents the time of the meeting in the view time zone, which also defaults to the zone for the clock. Dinner next Tuesday in Boston is showing up for me as 1AM on Wednesday because I still have my clock set for here in the UK. It now also seems to properly support timed events that span more than one day.
I sent in a feature request for exactly this six months ago. I'm sure that I was not the only one but it's gratifying to see that they listen to their customers
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Finally, an Apple Update that doesn't require a reboot! My uptime has been preserved.
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Hi,
does anyone know if this version finally supports the categories of the palm pda?
didn't work in the last version, on hotsync all entries from the palm would go into one calendar in ical. No possibility to seperate business an private entries.
Greetz
robert
I just experienced a problem with iCal (1.5.1) where all the menu items worked as well as some push button controls, but the calendar itself, all appointments, and the mini-calendar on the left part of the screen would not respond.
This problems persisted through quitting and re-starting iCal, but was solved by logging out and logging back in. Has anyone else experienced this?
Also, you can add an attendee with no e-mail address as the first attendee, but any subsequent attendees (2..N) must have e-mail addresses, or they can't be added. This seems like a bug.
On the plus side, iCal events can span multiple days (i.e. go past midnight) which never worked for me in any previous versions. Useful for those of us who schedule things in the wee hours. This is a nice plus.
I'm neutral on the drawer. It's too big, but tolerable if you leave it open. It's the constant opening and closing that drives me bonkers.
It works fine on my desktop machine, since the drawer expands onto the second monitor.
On my iBook, on the other hand, I'm left with having to have the window much smaller than I would like to leave room for the drawer.
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You're just jealous because the voices only talk to me.
That must just be some problem with your implementation. A few months ago I setup WebDAV on a linux box just for supporting my iCal. I switched to digest and all non-digest access was properly blocked, but iCal had no problems using it.
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You're just jealous because the voices only talk to me.
Try the always handy Palm Desktop. Its FREE too!
That hasn't changed. Add iCal to your Login Items prefs and you'll never have to worry about it again.
BTW, I know one way around this is to ferry a Palm between a PC and a Mac, but that's hardly a sensible solution. Particularly given that if both PCs and Macs support the Palm syncing protocol, SURELY they could speak to each other...
Panther 7b85 has iCal 1.5.1 but iSync 1.2.0, Software update does pick up iSync 1.2.1 on Panther though. The Drawer is great, its easier to get more work done, Camino's auto expanding trick would be a welcomed addition however. The pop up window was a pain because it disapeared when you clicked over to another application but still wanted to read your notes in iCal!!
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I think the main reason this bothers me is that the view controls are at the bottom of the window, so to go back to the previous view, I now have to go hunting for where the controls moved to.
If they put the view-switching buttons at the top of the window I think this problem would be much lessened.
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iCal 1.5.1 would be a real Entourage killer (in combination with AddressBook and Mail.app, of course) if Apple would implement recurring ToDo's. Reminders to pay the bills, etc., are the only think that remains in Entourage I can't live without.