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iCal 1.5.2 Released

Posted by pudge on from the i-am-waiting-for-iLife-04.1 dept.

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.'"

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  1. I prefer no drawers :) by JHromadka · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Thank goodness that Apple made it an option to use the drawer input style or a separate window for appointment editing. Even on my Powerbook's widescreen, it seemed to take up too much room.

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    1. Re:I prefer no drawers :) by rlowe69 · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I second that. I have a 12" iBook screen. :P heh

      Even though it's 1024x768 that drawer was a serious waste of horizontal real estate. Enough people bitched about it that it got fixed in a few months. The feedback cycle is working, us Mac users should use it to our advantage to make the products that much better.

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    2. Re:I prefer no drawers :) by thatguywhoiam · · Score: 5, Interesting
      Even though it's 1024x768 that drawer was a serious waste of horizontal real estate.

      It's your perception. I only point this out because this is the classic Macintosh interface tempest in a teapot.

      The new detachable Info windoid is exactly 10 pixels smaller, in its smallest width, than the drawer was. It can get much shorter than the drawer, but that does not make it more functional, in this instance. Safe to say, both drawer and windoid constructs basically take up the same amount of room.

      Now, you could make an argument that having the detachable window is better for screen 'real estate' as you can leave just a little piece of it visible, behind the iCal main window, and click it to bring it forward. But you could have also say there's nothing stopping you from just shoving the drawer portion off-screen as well.

      For myself, I think I prefer the drawer. I'm used to being able to see my event Info (in month view) when iCal is in the background - now I can't, because an app not in the foreground on OS X will make its support windoids disappear. There are always trade-offs.

      In the rare case where neither one is demonstrably better, a choice is good, and its nice that Apple is listening.

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  2. At least there's one thing it fixes ... by pvera · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The iCal notifications got broken when I upgraded to Panther. This patch seems to have fixed the issue. I rember I went as far as emailing Apple to tell them about it, but no feedback whatsoever. I guess somebody was listening :-)

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  3. Re:Show ONLY todo's? by tupps · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This sounds like the kind of thing you are after:

    http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macos x/ 19135

    I saw it on version tracker the other day but I use the iCal and sync with my phone and/or palm and check todos off of them.

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