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While font management customarily uses CMD-T in apps like KeyNote and Pages, CMD-T is used for 'go to today' in iCal, and so that protocol is preserved.) Third, text in the calendar can be rich text for those who like to add a bit if differentiation or flair to events. The second is a banner for things that last over a period of time, and you want to call it out visually. It appears as a small, yellow Post-It-like icon. The first is a sticky note that can be created for each day and is visible in all modes. It's a thoughtful touch that adds to the technical process of planning events. That way, if necessary, you'll be able to determine if an event is going to have you (or attendees) traveling or getting home after dark. First, weather forecast for five days can be added to the corner of each day block, and shows up in Day, Week or Month mode as 'all day.' Even the time of sunset and sunrise is tracked and is displayed as a shaded area in the Day mode. Or to share with others in a more digestible form than a classic calendar presentation.īus圜al adds even more in terms of situational awareness. That's helpful if you want to generate a list of events in order to create a different kind of event awareness. Bus圜al adds a List view to Day, Week and Month. The default presentation and the editing process, it seems, have been better thought out in Bus圜al.

(To bypass that, use Get Info, CMD-I instead.) In Bus圜al, double clicking the event brings up an edit window right away. You'll have to go through another step and click the 'Edit' button. Moreover, if you want to edit the item in iCal, double clicking isn't enough. Let's look at an item in month view in iCal and then in Bus圜al. That's just one sign of right thinking by the Bus圜al developer that percolates throughout the product. If you, for some unfathomable reason, decide to abandon Bus圜al, nothing is lost.

That means that you could actually use both apps simultaneously. Information entered into iCal shows up in Bus圜al and vice versa. I'll describe some of the crucial differences between iCal and Bus圜al.īus圜al main screenshot (one of many possible views)įirst off, however, I should note that Bus圜al draws from the same dataset as iCal.

If you fall into that class I described above, then US$40 is a small price to pay to wrest you from annoyance and into bliss.įor those who are still not convinced, read on. That's why BusyMac calls Bus圜al 'iCal Pro,' and provides five good reasons why one should considerBus圜al. When second best won't do, you move to a commercial application that's driven by the passion of the developer and the stress-induced needs of the customers who won't settle for annoyances or half-hearted programming. Writers, journalists, actors, business people, small business managers, computer consultants, state and local government people, just to name a few, all depend mightily on their calendar to keep appointments and meet obligations. Meanwhile, a lot of Macintosh users live and die by their calendar. For example, 'If it isn't good enough for us, then it isn't good enough for our customers.' But that didn't happen. That might have set off some alarms in some circles at Apple. Throughout the history of iCal (prior to Snow Leopard), it was never considered enterprise worthy, and so Apple itself never used it as the corporate planning and calendaring tool. Of course, that creates a dilemma for Apple employees as well.

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If Apple feels that the current version of iCal is satisfactory, not a lot of complaints are received, and the app is deemed well enough debugged, it'll be hard for the Mac OS X product manager to justify the funding required to move the app from good enough to world class. Simple enough.Īpple's corporate resources also come into play. An occasional birthday party or dinner at mom's needs to be entered and an alarm set. For many casual Mac users, iCal is sufficient. To understand why you may need to upgrade, it's necessary to look at iCal first.

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The bottom line: if you're a serious calendar user, you should upgrade immediately to Bus圜al. iCal is one of those apps that has limped along and created an opportunity for BusyMac. Some of those apps aren't considered world-class, so doors open for developers.

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Apple ships a lot of free software with Mac OS X.

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