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iCal 1.5.2 Released
cigaar writes "iCal 1.5.2 has been released by Apple. You can download it through Software Update. From iCal's Help page: 'iCal 1.5.2 gives you the option of viewing your calendar, event, or To Do information in a drawer or in a separate window (using the Detach Info command in the Window menu), and includes improved alarm performance and other reliability enhancements.'"
"You can download it through Software Update."
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Does anyone else have this problem? I've got the EFF's calender loaded in, and when I click on the checkbox that enables/disables viewing of this, I'll get different events.
For example, I'll click on and I'll get an event on monday and another on friday. Then I'll click off, and then on again, and I'll get a different event on tuesday and another different event on saturday. If I do it again, It'll randomy switch between three different events (only one visible at a time) and it seems purely random. This update didn't fix that.
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I've been playing with iCal and WEB-DAV servers recently for work, and I really like iCal. But one thing I discovered today is that the synchronization doesn't run both ways -- a subscribed can't updated a calendar that someone else has published.
This is a real problem for me, and I'm glad to hear somebody else mention it.
I spend 90% of my computing time on my PowerMac desktop. About 8% (I'm plainly talking out of my ass here) is spent on my iBook, and 2% on other people's computers (friends, computer labs on my college campus, etc.) I use iCal on my PowerMac as the master calendar, and I publish that calendar to my server via WebDAV. I subscribe to that calendar in iCal on my iBook, and I use WebCalendar to reproduce my calendar on my website. I also sync my Palm and my phone with my desktop regularly, such that I can maintain my calendar on those. This system is really helpful, because I have such a scheduled, busy life that I really couldn't function without a decent calendar system.
The problem, of course, is that I can only make changes when I'm sitting at my desktop. Changes on my Palm or phone are overwritten next time that I sync. (iSync's valiant efforts notwithstanding.) Changes made via the website and are lost, and iCal on my iBook will not permit me to make changes to the calendar, because it's a subscription.
I want to make changes on my iBook the same way that I can read and reply to e-mail in Mail.app when I'm not on a WiFi network -- it should synch next time that I get a connection. Likewise, I should be able to do so with the website version, my phone, etc.
The problem here, as best as I can tell, is that the calendar isn't really stored on the WebDAV server -- it's mirrored on the WebDAV server. My PowerMac doesn't get its data from the WebDAV server, it simply publishes it to that server. I want iCal to use the WebDAV server just like Mail.app uses IMAP -- the server is master, and all else synchs to it.
I'd sure appreciate suggestions or tips from anybody that can suggest a solution to this, or some sort of a hack that's available for iCal to make it work in this manner.
-Waldo Jaquith
Choose Provide iCal Feedback from the iCal menu and choose Bug Report from the list of options. It takes you to the iCal Feedback page.
If you do anything else, you're just causing them extra work.
Whatever you do, don't expect a reply.
It does handle calendar syncing, using your handy .Mac account.
.Mac account on beginning your session and then again on ending and you're golden. I guess it does kind of suck having to shell out the $100/yr for those little things after already having spent the extra money for the Mac, but it seems most users are resigned to it at this point. On the upside, it is a damn nice service you're getting for that money.
Just make sure to always sync with your
This kind of two-way synchronization is what you pay top-$$$ for .Mac for; and it works.
.Mac when I'm at work on a PC, and retrieve them through iSync when I get back home.
.Mac ...
I keep up to three Macs and my Sony Ericsson T68i synced up this way, and it works fine (Bookmarks, Calendar, Address Book). I can enter new events, new bookmarks etc. on
The WebDAV iCal publishing thing is only one-way, and will remain one-way because Apple want you to buy
When NOT running the new verison of iCal, you'll notice user process "iCalAlarmScheduler" running, which I never noticed before. Turn off by selecting "Turn off alarms when iCal is not open" in the iCal preferences.