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| Downloads:27,022 |
| Version Downloads:140 |
| Type:Business : Personal Info Managers |
| License:Commercial |
| Date:12 Aug 2008 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price:Free |
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Dthdunn reviewed on 24 Jul 2011
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.
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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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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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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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Poikkeus reviewed on 22 Dec 2010
iCal needs to be rewritten with special attention to intuitive ease of use.
Anonymous reviewed on 17 Oct 2005
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Anonymous reviewed on 25 Feb 2005
iCal has a lot of potential, especially when used with Meton which places iCal events in the menubar for easy access.
Anonymous reviewed on 30 Jan 2005
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Anonymous reviewed on 14 Dec 2004
Separating them while connecting their data is a much cleaner way to work.
Anonymous reviewed on 14 Dec 2004
Anonymous reviewed on 13 Dec 2004
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?!