TimeWorks

1.2.19

1.2.19

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I loved iCal Viewer, but TimeWorks seems glitchy about submitting registration information during the "trial" period. Now, months later, it has stopped working completely. I tried deleting it entirely, reinstalling, and reregistering it but no joy. I contacted the developer, but the response was from a lackey telling me the developer would get back to me soon. That was months ago. Buyer beware.

Does anyone have a working download link? I lost my copy during the Sierra-Mojave upgrade…

Seems to be dead. Does not work with "High Sierra". The developer did not answer my mail.

I loved iCal Viewer, but TimeWorks seems glitchy about submitting registration information during the "trial" period. Now, months later, it has stopped working completely. I tried deleting it entirely, reinstalling, and reregistering it but no joy. I contacted the developer, but the response was from a lackey telling me the developer would get back to me soon. That was months ago. Buyer beware.

Anyone know if the Crapstore version gets us past the date bug? Crapstore version is listed as 1.2.10 and looking at the comments it *seems* like the bug is fixed there. I've bought the direct download version however, which is still the bugged version on Karl's site. The temporary bug fix is also up, but it expired Jul 15th. Karl's been unresponsive to emails. Wondering if the Crapstore version does indeed have the fix and debating whether or not to bite the bullet and get that so I can get my Timeworks working again. Lack of responsiveness (and the fact that I've already bought this twice (Timeworks and iCalViewer)) has me a bit wary. Not sure why the versions are out of sync. =(

Interim release expired today. No note about fix on Karl's site. =(

oops … accidentally clicked twice

FYI: Karl Goiser has put a working “beta” on his Web site, expires in July, doesn’t yet incorporate Reminders.

Karl has obviously still hungover from New Year's Eve. Maybe there were a few beers too much :) Good morning Karl, your app TimeWorks does not work anymore ....

Well this is strange. In 10.8 iCalViewer ran, but did not ‘see’ my calendars so nothing showed up on the desktop. Now I’ve installed 10.9 and it works just like it used to in 10.6. I hope a future update doesn’t break it, it sure is nice to have it back. Good thing I didn’t uninstall it!

Interesting app and I've been after something that will put upcoming iCal appointments on the desktop for a while now. For me there are a couple of issues though. - It insists on showing events from 'yesterday', wish there was a way to turn this off in preferences. - Events go off the edge of the screen and are clipped (even when you turn on the border). Would be nice if the app used your screen dimensions to avoid this. - Seems to be a bug where a new event is displayed twice when you're adding it to iCal. The fix is to quite/restart TimeWorks. Despite this, I like the display and the fact that it works with my 3 monitor setup (notwithstanding the odd issue). Looking forward to some updates.

TimeWorks 1.2.3 seems not to work with Mountain Lion!

Good work, much better then the old version.

Such a shame, I was really excited to try this, but it doesn't seem to work with other people's google calendars that have been shared with me and are in my iCal. Without this ability, TimeWorks is hobbled and fairly useless to me. I'm using 10.6.8, so YMMV, of course...

Mmm ... it looks promising, but this (new) app has some serious bugs in Lion. I presume the dev is working like hell to fix them. We'll have to wait and see ...

I have purcachsed the application on 20 April 2010 and is now to pay again for an update. A nerve! I hope it is not a model for future software developers.

It appears this is called TimeWorks now?? http://www.explodingorange.com/

A nice app, but needs some tweaking to make it more appealing. The events and To-do's that appear on the desktop don't fit the entire screen (tried this on my iMac and MBP). You can't edit the events without opening iCal. You can't customize the colors to make them less noticeable. You are essentially just putting iCal on the desktop - so why not just open iCal (or BusyCal, which is better), and then hide it until you need it? Overall a nice effort, but needs some additional features and bug fixes to make it worth 11 bucks.

This WAS my favorite calendar tool for my desktop, but then all of a sudden it stopped appearing on my desktop in Snow Leopard. I don't know why, but since it wouldn't show up anymore then I decided to remove it. When it did work then it did a great job, but it isn't the most prettiest calendar and not much customization to it. I mainly like having the events listed and I'd usually make the horizontal calendar transparent (invisible). The one thing I hated is if I made the horizontal calendar 7 days and my events list 21 days then if there wasn't anything listed in those 7 days then the events calendar would disappear. I always like being able to see what is coming up and I didn't really care for the horizontal calendar. So I had to add a bunch of days to the horizontal and make it transparent, so I could have my events list up. The other complaint is that once that day came up then the event would disappear off the list and that can be a bad thing, because wouldn't you like to know what is due that day? Of course I could see it in the horizontal calendar, but I just didn't like the look to it and taking up my entire desktop. Also it looked strange with so many days in it. I used busysync in conjunction of this program. I did this mainly to get google calendar updates into ical and then have icalviewer display my google calendar on my desktop. It worked great for awhile, but like I said it suddenly stopped working and I couldn't get it to appear on my desktop or even through its own window. So I found a replacement for this program and it is called Rainlendar, which for whatever reason is not listed in macupdate. It is a cross platform based program and they have a free or pro edition. I got the pro version since it can get google calendar and ical in the same time. It pretty much seems to have everything this does and custom skins, so you can make it look as nice or as ugly as you want. The only problem with rainlendar is if you lock it to desktop and decide to hide the tray icon and dock icon then adding events or todos is a pain. For whatever reason it will get hidden into the desktop and you can't click on the calendar. Only way you can click on it is by starting the program again OR waiting for an event alarm to pop-up. This isn't really an issue since I don't mind adding events through google directly and I have no reason to mess with the calendar on my desktop. I just need to be able to see it. The other nice thing is you can add a weather widget to it as well. Right now it is only eating about 18 mb of memory and that isn't bad at all. Compared to icalviewer and busysync eating about twice or even three times more than that of resources. Also if you compare rainlendar is $13.00 while icalviewer is $11.00 and plus busysync is $39.00 which makes it $50.00 for the same thing that rainlendar can do already built in. Also the nice thing is that it isn't tied to one OS that means your license works in Linux, Windows, and Mac. That might not matter to some, but if you change your mind and want it on your windows machine instead or linux then you have the option to move it without having to buy another license for that os.

Nice App! Just one problem: It's not possible to use the photo from the addressbook. Any idea?!

I've already given this great app 5 starts, so I won't review it again. Just wanted to say it's working 100% under Snow Leopard.

This is truly an excellent piece of software. It presents your calendar data in a very unobtrusive manner - on your desktop - with at-a-glance access to upcoming events and countdowns to important events. The first question most people ask when they see my desktop is: "What is that?" If they are using a Mac, they almost always buy it; if they are on a PC, they usually then get a Mac. It is one of the few shareware products that I would pay for again with no hesitation (the low price helps).

I haven't found any other software that's even close to bringing my iCal events and tasks into focus like iCalViewer. Support is great with the developer responding and fixing a bug I found with Leopard in just a few hours.

Four-and-a-half stars for the software, which is extremely useful and clever, and which now works flawlessly. FIVE STARS for the developer, who took plenty of time with me by email to troubleshoot some minor problems, as well as to chat a bit about his country and life. Really nice guy. *****

Totally worth the money. Saved my butt in college, use it constantly at work. Great for keeping on top of what's coming up.

If you like to keep your agenda in front of you, this is a great app. The glowing comments below are true, too. And, the developer is extremely personable and on top of keeping in touch with you regarding support issues.

I've been using iCalViewer for years now, and it still has a permanent seat among my favorite applications. I can't imagine how anyone, with even the slightest predilection for knowing what's scheduled ahead, could possibly live without iCalViewer.

One of the most groundbreaking shareware app that I've even bought. I've used iCalViewer for one and a half years now and it still is one of the greatest little pearls of all applications. Buy it. You won't regret it, ever. Some may say, they would get stressed seeing their todo timeline on the desktop every day. But on the contrary, I would say, isn't it more stressing looking in your calendar, only to find out that you have missed an appointment by 3 days? iCalViewer lets you plan ahead. Not only do I like how you can have it on your desktop, underneath all your icons, but also I worship the feature that makes it run as a scree saver, and that, along with other screen savers too! Awesome.

This application if genious. I love it and it's one of those programs that you'll never regret purchasing. I really like the concept of having a moving timeline on the desktop. It's like really being in control of what you're supposed to do. It's awesome to be able to see something approach that vertical yellow line, knowing since a long time in beforehand what will happen and be able to prepare for whatever the event demands of you. This is a 5 star program and many kudos goes to the brilliant developer for doing it. Keep up the good work. PS. I almost forgot to say also, that I really love the Screensaver addition to this program. Kewl...!

The newest version works OK on Tiger except for a minor bug when one displays the iCal notifications on the Tiger (10.4.1) desktop and the top half of each notification is partially obscured by the menubar (when the notification has "all day" checked, making it display at the top of the screen). Also, I noticed that the newest version worked for a couple of days, then stopped displaying the notifications. It only began to work again when I re-installed iCalView a second time. Overall, I'm happy I paid for this.

My problem is that I bought this iCalViewer and then, shortly thereafter, I bought Mac OSX 10.4.1 Tiger. Eventually I figured out that iCalViewer doesn't work under Tiger. As long as the months pass by and a Tiger-compatible version doesn't emerge, I'm going to have this depressing suspicion that I've bait-and-switched, that I bought snake oil that doesn't cure my dropsy.

If anybody has any problem with iCalViewer, please contact me about it. I am readily contactable via iCalViewer.com and promise not to bite! I am one person writing, testing and supporting iCalViewer and don't have the resources to test against all possible environments, so if there's a bug, how am I to know about it and fix it? I am not saying you shouldn't tell people about bad experiences, I am suggesting that you should tell me about it so I can fix it. If you don't tell me about it, and nobody else does, I can't consider it a problem and at all and have to wonder if it isn't something else causing the problem, or something else entirely. Please, please, please contact me. Karl

The calendar appointments, as they move across the screen, have a strong tendency to collapse into thin slivers. This did not happen in the previous version.

I accidentally left some code from version 1.0.1 which now proves to be more annoying than helpful. My apologies. A fixed version can be obtained via my .Mac account (http://homepage.mac.com/kgg/icv.html) or: http://homepage.mac.com/kgg/.cv/kgg/Public/iCalViewer%201.0.7a.zip-link.zip Karl

What a great utility... one of those simple ideas that people 'get' instantly (at least those I've shown!) It's an excellent way to keep an eye on your schedule, and makes iCal even better (no more forgetting about events until the reminder that you set far too close to the fact!) With more polish (that the developer has been displaying with his updates), this will become an indispensable tool to a lot of people. I'm particularly looking forward to the release of Snerdware's GroupCal, to see my events locked in MS Exchange! ; )

Love this program! Helps me keep the whole office on track and on time. I just hope there is an update so it works with iCal 1.5.1

I have only said this once before and that was for F10 Launch.... this app I can't live w/o after one day of use. Absolutely perfect! Keep up the great work! Could also be nice with a Menu bar pull-down to create appointments w/o opening iCal....

Fantastic - it allows me to see what is coming up. You can customise how far ahaed iCal looks - I use it for a backdrop to my desktop and it updates reguarly, letting me see any important dates and appointments that are coming up. Would like to list my To Do items as well!

Absolute genius. I don't use the app much, but the screensaver is the most useful screensaver ever. Now I always know exactly what's going on before it happens, and it looks great too.

Great free software. I especially like the screensaver, which I can set to a week ahead of time to see everything coming up in a format easier to comprehend than iCal itself.