Apple Releases Updated iCal 1.5.1 92
An anonymous reader writes "iCal 1.5.1 is easier and faster use with its enhanced Info Drawer, To Do alarms and notes, and more keyboard short cuts. iCal 1.5.1 also includes improved time zone support and personalized calendar colors. You can visit the iCal homepage. Also, if you synchronize you'll need the latest iSync 1.2.1 for it to work with the new iCal." You can also update via Software Update, of course, and you need to update iCal before iSync.
Software update (Score:5, Informative)
Next time, you'll get the chance to download iSync.
Neither needs a reboot.
Mark
Re:Software update (Score:1)
Drop the drawers... (Score:5, Interesting)
No it's not.
I really don't see the value in having a "drawer" that isn't always attached to the primary (calendar) window but is there often enough that I have to keep that main window smaller in order to see the drawer when it is there. The alternative is to move the window because the drawer appears all but off-screen when I double click on any item/appointment in the calendar. (it used to bring up a small window that could be moved/resized inpendent of the main window.) I don't see the UI wisdom in forcing this on people -- there's no pref. to use to old windowing style and that is a real flaw, IMHO.
-tcp
Re:Drop the drawers... (Score:2)
Re:Drop the drawers... (Score:5, Interesting)
Of course, I've got a 17" PowerBook, so I've already got a surplus of desktop space anyway.
Re:Drop the drawers... (Score:5, Informative)
I hate slide out drawers. They're not intuitive at all. They're eye candy based. That's my main gripe with Camino -- bookmarks and history have to be accessed from a side drawer.
It breaks the system because you either have to purposefully make your window narrower, or the side bar will be offscreen when it "pops up" (or out, rather). Also, because it's on the side, it doesn't have a featured focus. When I first tried adding an event using 1.5, I doubled clicked to create an event, and wondered why the info window wasn't showing up. Because the drawer was opening to the side, I didn't notice it because I wasn't looking for it. In any case, most of the drawer was offscreen, because I didn't know that I was supposed to provide space on the left for it to show up.
If someone can give me an example of a side drawer that really makes sense and is more useful than a floating pop-up window, please let me know.
Re:Drop the drawers... (Score:1)
Re:Drop the drawers... (Score:3, Interesting)
However, in both of these cases, it's being used for navigation and organization, much like a finder listing. In those cases, it makes sense. I don't think it makes sense when you're looking at a single item.
Re:Drop the drawers... (Score:1)
Anyway, as far as Camino goes, it hasn't used a drawer in quite a while. The bookmarks and history work similar to safari. That might be in the nightly builts, though. Of course it's gotten much better since
Re:Drop the drawers... (Score:2)
FYI, that's been changed in recent releases. They made the old bookmarks sidebar act more like the bookmark thing in Safari. Its really pretty nice.
Re:Drop the drawers... (Score:2)
Re:Drop the drawers... (Score:2)
It's keeping me from switching from Palm Desktop, which I'd dearly love to do. (That old rebranded Claris Organizer is still a solid old bugger of a program.)
Also, I can't figure out how to color-code my Palm categories. Palm Desktop, for instance, lets you specify all Travel events as Blue and Work m
Re:Drop the drawers... (Score:2)
Re:Drop the drawers... (Score:2)
How about viewing a document's properties? The information in the drawer is specific to the document, so having a display that's "locked" onto the document window makes perfect, intuitive sense. If the property information was in a floating window, it wouldn't be visually linked with one particular document window. It's the same idea as a sheet, only modeless, sin
Re:Drop the drawers... (Score:2)
So much for having to be accessed from a drawer. What's wrong with a menu?
Re:Drop the drawers... (Score:2)
Re:Drop the drawers... (Score:2)
Re:Drop the drawers... (Score:1)
Re:Drop the drawers... (Score:1)
This isn't necessarily true in Aqua. Although it's a little more work, it is possible to program the window to shrink by the required amount to keep the drawer on screen, then expand back to its original size when the drawer is put away. IIRC, Camino/Chimera used to do this with their old bookmark drawer (it's now Safari-style, in-window)
I agree (Score:2)
On my iBook, on the other hand, I'm left with having to have the window much smaller than I would like to leave room for the drawer.
Re:Drop the drawers... (Score:2)
Personally, I rarely catagorize entries, nor need to use the little macro-calendar in the bottom left. I would like to see the whole left side section be collapsible. If I had that real estate back, I wouldn't mind the drawer on the right. FYI, 14" iBook, and annoyed at drawers size...
Re:Drop the drawers... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Drop the drawers... (Score:2)
Re:Drop the drawers... (Score:1)
Re:Drop the drawers... (Score:1)
Re:Drop the drawers... (Score:1)
Poor Interface Design Gets Worse (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Poor Interface Design Gets Worse (Score:1)
The zooming problem with drawers is system-wide--in Jaguar.
In Panther, which comes out in 14 days, drawers are considered when zooming a window, so there's no off-screen erratic behavior.
Also in Panther, you can attach keyboard shortcuts to menu items, such as the Zoom item in iCal's Window menu. Now, with a quick ctrl-z on my PowerBook, any window is zoomable. Mail's drawer works fine, iCal's drawer works fine. Any app's drawer works fine.
What happened to 1.5.0? (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:What happened to 1.5.0? (Score:2)
I love x.x.1 releases. Reminds me of the time when everybody was waiting for System 7. (And yes, that wait *was* long.) On one occasion I saw someone wearing a t shirt with "I am waiting for System 7.0.1" on it...
Sync with P800 - anyone? (Score:3, Interesting)
I did get the contacts syncronized, but was not lucky at all with calender dates. iSync always ends up with "NSRangeException: [NSCFString substringWithRange:]: Range or index out of bounds"
Anybody got an idea what that is about?
Re:Sync with P800 - anyone? (Score:1)
Re:Sync with P800 - anyone? (Score:1)
Re:Sync with P800 - anyone? (Score:1)
Re:Sync with P800 - anyone? (Score:2)
Ok, to break this down:
NSRangeException - This is an exception raised by an error condition in Objective-C code, from the Next Step libraries (actually Cocoa, but it's descended from Next Step
NSCFString substringWithRange: - The exception is raised when messaging the NSCFString class through the substringWithRange method
Range or index out of bounds - either the number sent to the class was too large or
Re:Sync with P800 - anyone? (Score:2)
Now it works fine.
Slow down cowboy! Error messages should not be patronising.
No security yet for shared calendars (Score:2, Interesting)
iCal doesn't support WebDAV in digest mode, so your password is passed in cleartext. Digest mode may not be the strongest encryption, but some is WAY better than none.
Of course you could mount the WebDAV disk in digest and just copy it over, but that's not the easy integration Apple promotes. And even then, don't try it in the Finder...
Re:No security yet for shared calendars (Score:1)
AuthName "calendar.domain.com"
AuthType Basic
Switched it to:
AuthName "calendar.domain.com"
AuthType Digest
sudo apachectl restart, no publishing of iCal to the server. Set it back to Basic, works fine.
Re:No security yet for shared calendars (Score:1, Interesting)
Just tried a tcp sniffing of my ical packets to
PUT
User-Agent: DAVKit/0.1
Authorization: Digest username="XXX", realm="XXX@mac.com", nonce="P4Wkxg==eb0b1653833734e219eb84176e09e00f14 a 666b9", uri="/XXX/Sites/.calendars/XXX.ics", response="afc504aa1dac4217aaf2a105d02a6808", algorithm="MD5", cnonce="a2abba729157af9467b1739d5053bfbf", nc=00000001, qop="auth"
Content-Length: 1497
I also tried with my Apache server and it wa
Re:No security yet for shared calendars (Score:1)
#LoadModule digest_module
#AddModule mod_digest.c
Re:No security yet for shared calendars (Score:2)
I use digest authentication for all my DAV access from the Mac and it works just fine. Of course it would still be better if Apple got their act together and made use of the SSL support that's already in their toolkits [apple.com].
Re:No security yet for shared calendars (Score:1)
WebDAV/iCal article [macdevcenter.com]
Re:No security yet for shared calendars (Score:2)
No, digest does work (Score:3, Informative)
That must just be some problem with your implementation. A few months ago I setup WebDAV on a linux box just for supporting my iCal. I switched to digest and all non-digest access was properly blocked, but iCal had no problems using it.
Re:No, digest does work (Score:1)
Other things they forgot (Score:2, Interesting)
Anyone have an internal work calendar and an external work calendar that would like them to be the same without duplicating each entry?
Multiple authors.
My wife(yes, I have one) & I share a family calendar, but only she can write to it. Isn't multiple authors the point of WebDAV?
Re:Other things they forgot (Score:1)
That's all I want!
Re:Other things they forgot (Score:1)
Still, a 2-way sync for a published calendar wouldn't be too hard, would it?
Re:Other things they forgot (Score:1, Insightful)
Then you are confronted to some other problems because if you're just using (for example) some sort of CVS server treating calendars as files, you will have much work to do because you can't just consider calendar diffs as equivalent to file diffs. And you have also to resolve conflicts which might occurs.
Or you can just imagine a dedicated calendar server... some sort of... Exchange server. And I know you: you will complai
Re:Other things they forgot (Score:1)
WebDAV/iCal article [macdevcenter.com]
Re:Other things they forgot (Score:1)
Its a feature that you cant erase your mother-in-law's visit from the calendar.
Re:Other things they forgot (Score:5, Funny)
Isn't it what marriage is all about?
Re:Other things they forgot (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Other things they forgot (Score:2)
Can't you share the login?
or
Can't you have a calendar you add to, she subscribes to and then she publishes those calendars on one web page?
Re:Other things they forgot (Score:1)
Second option is just too much work. I'm lazy and want one iCal for 2 people. Shouldn't be THAT hard.
Re:christ already (Score:1)
Almost forgot, troll.
Re:Other things they forgot (Score:1)
Time zone support is a big improvement (Score:5, Informative)
You need to tick a box in the preferences panel to enable it but once on you get to specify the time zone as well as the time of the meeting (it defaults to the zone set for the clock). The display presents the time of the meeting in the view time zone, which also defaults to the zone for the clock. Dinner next Tuesday in Boston is showing up for me as 1AM on Wednesday because I still have my clock set for here in the UK. It now also seems to properly support timed events that span more than one day.
I sent in a feature request for exactly this six months ago. I'm sure that I was not the only one but it's gratifying to see that they listen to their customers
Re:Does dock icon keep up to date? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Does dock icon keep up to date? (Score:1)
Finally! (Score:3, Informative)
ical and categories on palm (Score:1)
does anyone know if this version finally supports the categories of the palm pda?
didn't work in the last version, on hotsync all entries from the palm would go into one calendar in ical. No possibility to seperate business an private entries.
Greetz
robert
Re:ical and categories on palm (Score:1)
It still does not seem to support Palm categories.
I, for one, like the new iCal better than the previous version. I find the info drawer an improvement, but I have a cinema display, so width isn't an issue.
iCal still isn't everything I would hope for. In addition to the category gripe I also want more (or even any) control over the display of To Do items. I'll continue to vacillate between iCal and Palm Desktop, while
Still Buggy (Score:2, Informative)
This problems persisted through quitting and re-starting iCal, but was solved by logging out and logging back in. Has anyone else experienced this?
Also, you can add an attendee with no e-mail address as the first attendee, but any subsequent attendees (2..N) must have e-ma
What about Windows? (Score:1, Offtopic)
Re:What about Windows? (Score:1)
But how to keep synced with Windows? (Score:1)
BTW, I know one way around this is to ferry a Palm between a PC and a Mac, but that's hardly a sensible solution. Particularly given that if both PCs and Macs support the Palm syncing protocol, SURELY
Re:But how to keep synced with Windows? (Score:1)
Love It (Score:1)
Window size tied to calendar view (Score:2, Insightful)
I think the main reason this bothers me is that the view controls are at the bottom of the window, so to go back to the previous view, I now have to go hunting for where the controls moved to.
If they put the view-switching buttons
Recurring ToDo (Score:1)