Still looking for an iCal alternative since Apple screwed-up the application in Lion. I'm not going to review this application, since I am not planning on using it long enough. I find the layout confusing. I suppose this is a matter of taste. I had no problem with items being listed on a regular calendar. They alphabetized my many calendars, which I do not want. I list my calendars in priority order. Finally, the screen shifts for no apparent reason.

Just not my cup of tea.

Maybe Caliander will plug in the printing capabilities that mirror iCal since the BusyCal team seems to be intent on ignoring this.

Caliander is the most interesting adjunct to iCal to appear since the excellent (but expensive) BusyCal. If BusyCal is iCal on steroids, then Caliander is iCal on acid--though not in a bad way: it gives a uniquely flexible window onto the iCal database, offering both a logarithmic view (which telescopes the future) and a linear view, but both can be expanded or contracted to encompass the range you want, and scrolled very intuitively by hand. Unlike iCal, which shows Month View as a table, Caliander shows up to three months in linear form, so that it would be much more convenient to use it to map out future long-term schedules, especially since, as with iCal, events may be created by double-clicking on the chart.

The other main goal of this app is to enable simple creation of events via global access to a new event dialogue, with the option of a special shorthand syntax for speedy event definition. I have had some issues with this, and partly for that reason --also because it is effectively a beta-- I'm not rating the app yet, but I would strongly recommend a trial.