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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. 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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    1. Re:At least there's one thing it fixes ... by beelsebob · · Score: 5, Informative
      Don't e-mail apple, send them a bug report

      Apple bugreporter

      Bob

  2. Re:Right... by georgewad · · Score: 5, Informative

    how about this

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  3. Detaching Drawers! by Steveftoth · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Apple should make detaching a drawer part of the OS! For those of you that like drawers, great, but some people like them to be floating. They are first class windows to the OS so it would be possible without re-writing the drawer code.

    Well, maybe on second though they should rather create a sub-class of drawer that is detachable and thus all FUTURE drawers could be detachable.

  4. Re:I can read my Software Update window, thanks. by FosterKanig · · Score: 5, Funny

    Turning "water into wine" is planned for OS 10.4. I can't wait, but of course "walking on water" will require a .Mac subscription.

  5. 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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  6. Re:You're Correct by gt384u · · Score: 5, Informative

    It does handle calendar syncing, using your handy .Mac account.

    Just make sure to always sync with your .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.

  7. DotMac by slashusrslashbin · · Score: 5, Informative

    This kind of two-way synchronization is what you pay top-$$$ for .Mac for; and it works.

    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 .Mac when I'm at work on a PC, and retrieve them through iSync when I get back home.

    The WebDAV iCal publishing thing is only one-way, and will remain one-way because Apple want you to buy .Mac ...