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More iCal 1.5 and iSync 1.2 Details

From the most recent Panther builds, Apple's Help files offer these features for the upcoming revisions of iSync and iCal.



With iSync 1.2:




  • You can synchronize calendar information on your Symbian mobile phones with the calendar information on your computers and other devices.



With iCal 1.5, you can do the following:




  • More easily edit your calendars, events, and To Do items in the Info drawer.

  • Customize your calendar colors. Choose from a list of colors or create your own unique tint.
    Publish or subscribe to calendars on servers that are located behind a firewall (or that require you to use a proxy server).

  • Use the new keyboard shortcuts to do more tasks more easily. For example, you can use your keyboard to select and edit multiple events at the same time, change the main calendar view, move events to another time or day, and more.

  • "Snooze" your event alarms, so if you're in the middle of something you need to finish you can get a second reminder.

  • Add alarms to your To Do items.

  • Have an alarm that opens an application, document, or other item on your hard disk. For example, you can have iCal open an AppleScript that plays the songs in your iTunes library..

  • Use shortcut menus to more easily create and change events.

  • Choose a time zone for each event, or choose to see all your events in a different time zone.



These updates are expected any day now.

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110 months ago
Does the alarm work now if you shut down or put your computer to sleep??? This should be fixed before they add any more bells and whisles to it... imo
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110 months ago
Come on Apple... hurry up with the releases of these 2 already!
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110 months ago
Tuesday anyone? Maybe. I need something to tie me over until Panther ships.
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110 months ago
does anyone know if it's possible to have notes attached to to-do items in the new iCal?

the lack of this keeps me from using iCal for to-dos.

(or am i missing something?)
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110 months ago
after you've created something on the calander then double click on the item and you get a whole bunch extra stuff.
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110 months ago
Removed
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110 months ago
it's got notes for events, but not for to-do's, which seems strange.

i often want to keep notes for a task i'm working on, but rarely for an event.

but i suppose (and hope) I'm probably still missing something...:)
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110 months ago
My Panther iCal 1.5 has a note field for the tasks.
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110 months ago
Great! Looking forward to Panther!

Mark, I like your idea, and I think I'd use it too, but I imagine that Apple would consider it too advanced for iCal.

On the other hand, I'm pretty sure that 1.5 will allow duplication of event, and that, in combination with repeated events, would provide at least an approximation of what you're looking for.
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110 months ago

Originally posted by VegetaPunk
Does the alarm work now if you shut down or put your computer to sleep??? This should be fixed before they add any more bells and whisles to it... imo


I doubt many programs will work after you shut down your computer. :)

I agree, though, that it would be nice if it woke from sleep. I know that Panther incororporates this feature, but I can't remember if it was available for use from other apps. I'm sure iCal would take advantage of it, though. (I'd test, but I wiped my Panther install some time ago due to app incompatibility.)
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