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Apple iCal
Apple iCal 5.0.1
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Personal calendar solution; part of Mac OS X 10.6.   Commercial
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Apple iCal is an elegant personal calendar application that helps you manage your life and your time better than ever before. iCal lets you keep track of your appointments and events with multiple calendars featuring at-a-glance views of upcoming activities by day, week or month.

iCal lets you create separate color-coded calendars for your home, school and work schedules, and it lets you view all your different calendars at the same time from within a single unified window. That way you can quickly spot scheduling conflicts - and just as quickly identify where you still have
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.6


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Apple iCal User Discussion (Write a Review)
ver. 5.x:
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Dthdunn reviewed on 24 Jul 2011
First, obviously iCal (as stated above) has not been discontinued. Mac OS10.7 includes iCal version 5.0.

My biggest problem with this product is that they have apparently taken away my ability to keep my various calendar headings on the screen. Now when you do anything, this menu disappears. What an absurd change. Now I must go and show the menu again, over and over.

I have other minor issues, but this change was a big mistake.
[Version 4.0.4]

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gatovadio replied on 09 Feb 2012
well, if it's not discontinued, it should as hell be.

the new calendar popup is actually one of the minor issues if you consider that reminder alarms are completely unreliable (tried all the troubleshooting tips on the web about cleaning caches and so on); checked/unchecked calendars' state don't get saved if you quit/relaunch ical immediately (you have to refresh all calendars before quit); trying to export a calendar and you're playing beach ball.

compared to real usability issues, even the new barbie doll leather look doesn't bother me. v5.0.2 tested.
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Dthdunn replied on 09 Feb 2012
No, it should not be discontinued, it should be fixed.

Apple is sitting on billions of dollars and they still take forever to fix problems. Their loyal fan base tells them exactly what to do in forums like this one (and of course their own) and they just ignore much of the free advice. So competitors troll these posting and get free product ideas. At least that part of the system works.

Apple's revenue is now mainly from iPhones and iPads and iPods/music. The Mac Pro may even be discontinued. This is not what we want to hear when we pay double for products built with quasi-slave labor, but that's where we are today. It sucks.
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gatovadio replied on 09 Feb 2012
i agree with your views on the subject. others are getting ahead and i don't believe the guys at apple don't fix something because they don't know how to. they clearly lost interest in desktops.
just saying that it comes a time when you just grow tired of waiting for some decent fixing which, by the murphy's law, will break something else.

my first 3/4 years (leo and snow leo) with the mac was a time for discovery and trying new and exciting third party apps. now, with lion i decided to decrease my set of apps to the minimum and use the apple stock apps whenever possible. it's much of an hassle to try to get safari or ichat to give you an approximate workflow you're used with opera or adium (including setting growl scripts, setting jabber gateways, finding alternative safari extensions, etc.).

it was painful but doable. ical, however, doesn't work on me and no tweak can save it. thanks for the educated reply, cheers dthdunn.
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Dthdunn replied on 09 Feb 2012
I now use BusyCal, but whether that will resolve your particular issues, I cannot say. Good luck.
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Poikkeus reviewed on 22 Dec 2010
iCal is a familiar part of OS 10.6, and actually quite useful - once you become familiar with its design. Many of the controls to this software aren't as user-friendly as other Apple applications, forcing you to play around with various options - some more obvious than others.

iCal needs to be rewritten with special attention to intuitive ease of use.
[Version 4.0.4]


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Anonymous reviewed on 17 Oct 2005
Awesome! I never got into it until a few months ago and now I feel so much more organized!
[Version 1.5.5]


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Anonymous reviewed on 03 Aug 2005
I haven't seen a complaint about the Search function. Maybe it's peculiar to my setup. The Search function does absolutely nothing, even when the item searched for is on the page in view. BUG.
[Version 1.5.5]

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Anonymous commented on 03 Aug 2005
sorry. The bug is with iCal 2.0.2
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Anonymous reviewed on 25 Feb 2005
To osos10 - you either need to replace your PRAM battery (desktop) or reset your PMU (laptop).

iCal has a lot of potential, especially when used with Meton which places iCal events in the menubar for easy access.
[Version 1.5.5]


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Anonymous reviewed on 30 Jan 2005
Whenever, for some reason there is a sudden failure (due to electricity power failure etc.), the Mac forgets the time and the date - this is very odd, but one can live with that. But after you set up the time, iCAL the ROYALLY STUPID application repeats each and every event and alarm since the day it was set. Thus, lunching every application, sending hundreds of e-mails, making hundreds of phone calls not to mention the popup window (luckily the SMS doesn't work with my SMS provider, I pity those with a working SMS setting who will get hundreds of old SMSs all over again). I can only say ROYALLY STUPID, ROYALLY STUPID, ROYALLY STUPID ..... APPLE WAKE UP.
[Version 1.5.5]


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Anonymous reviewed on 11 Jan 2005
Don't know what's going on with my iCal but events keep slipping from one day to the next. It's done this twice. The first time I thought it was me, moved everything over and it's done it again! And when you drag the events back over, you lose the time and have to re-arrange the things all over. This is starting to be a great waste of time. Will check out alternatives.
[Version 1.5.5]

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Anonymous commented on 13 Jan 2005
Have discovered the nature of this bug. It involves crossing the international date line and jumping time zones. These slips occured when I flew back and forth from Asia crossing the date line. Will have to be careful about this in future. Don' t know if there's a fix for this or why it does this in the first place as it's annoying for anyone who travels . . . .
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Anonymous commented on 13 Jan 2005
Have discovered the nature of this bug. It involves crossing the international date line and jumping time zones. These slips occured when I flew back and forth from Asia crossing the date line. Will have to be careful about this in future. Don' t know if there's a fix for this or why it does this in the first place as it's annoying for anyone who travels . . . .
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Anonymous reviewed on 14 Dec 2004
I'm delighted that each element is kept separate - Address Book, iCal, Mail - although it is sometimes convenient for me to have it all in one. Essentially, merging all these into one leads to bloated software with features that not everyone needs. (I saw the word 'Entourage' there...)

Separating them while connecting their data is a much cleaner way to work.
[Version 1.5.5]


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Anonymous reviewed on 14 Dec 2004
Does anyone know why the day and date is faded out when you click on the time? Whats the point in it being faded?
[Version 1.5.5]


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Anonymous reviewed on 13 Dec 2004
Sure would be nice if iCal, Address Book, and Mail were all wrapped up into one application. For example, it would be nice to NOT need another application to take birthdays from Address Book and put them into iCal.
This is the main reason I still do not use these apps, they make things MORE cumbersome instead of being more 'transparent' allowing me to just get my work done w/out thinking about the computer...
Come on Mac guys, can't we make this easier... even if it does look like you are doing what 'Entourage' has already done?!
[Version 1.5.5]


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Date:12 Aug 2008
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Apple iCal is an elegant personal calendar application that helps you manage your life and your time better than ever before. iCal lets you keep track of your appointments and events with multiple calendars featuring at-a-glance views of upcoming activities by day, week or month.

iCal lets you create separate color-coded calendars for your home, school and work schedules, and it lets you view all your different calendars at the same time from within a single unified window. That way you can quickly spot scheduling conflicts - and just as quickly identify where you still have lots of time.

You can use iCal to remind you of time commitments, keep track of your deadlines, send and receive email and text-message notifications, set alarms, and even create and prioritize To Do lists. In fact, iCal performs so many useful functions, it makes all other desktop calendars look, well, dated.
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