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Daily iPhone App: Horizon puts a weather report in a calendar app

by Mike Schramm (Feb 27th, 2013)

Horizon is an interesting little app that comes from a very simple idea: To combine your weather report and your calendar in one place. That may not sound like a big innovation, but it's actually not a bad one. Horizon's simple and straightforward design (put together by a young developer named ...

AppleScripting Notification Center > Scheduling Do Not Disturb

by Ben Waldie (Feb 4th, 2013)

Mountain Lion's Notification Center is great for keeping you in the loop, but it can be a huge distraction when you need to get stuff done. Sometimes, a little peace and quiet is all you need to stay productive. As you may know, iOS 6 includes a handy Do Not Disturb feature, which can be turned ...

Build a photo calendar with Automator

by Ben Waldie (Nov 13th, 2012)

You've seen it in your Launchpad. You've seen it in your Applications folder. It's Automator. It sounds cool. It looks cool. It's got a cool robot icon. But, what can it really do, and why should you care about it? Well, Automator can do lots of things to improve and streamline your OS X ...

BusyCal 2 adds new views, menu bar quick entry, gives up Sync Services

by Mike Wehner (Oct 22nd, 2012)

It was already among the leading Calendar/iCal replacement apps for productivity aficionados, and now BusyCal has received a boost of new functionality with the release of BusyCal 2. The update includes improved iCloud functionality, and is also compatible with Google Calendar and other ...

Apple's calendar subscriptions servers unavailable to users [Updated]

by Michael Grothaus (Aug 20th, 2012)

For years Apple has made available their own and third-party calendar subscriptions on their iCal Calendars site. Now Apple has appeared to have taken their iCalendar subscription servers offline. The servers host iCalendar files which anyone with an app that supports the iCalendar (ICS) ...

Fantastical 1.2.2 available, prepares for Mountain Lion's Gatekeeper

by Dave Caolo (Mar 20th, 2012)

Fantastical by Flexibits has been updated to version 1.2.2 to address, among other things, Gatekeeper support in Apple's forthcoming Mountain Lion. Fantastical is a fantastic tool for the Mac that I've been using for quite a while (here's our comparison of Fantastical and Today). It lives ...

How to enable iCal's debug menu

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Feb 24th, 2012)

ZDNet (via Macgasm) has posted a couple of neat iCal tweaks that should make your life a bit easier: Enabling the debug menu and showing two weeks worth of appointments at once. The trick involves a couple of Terminal commands. To enter debug mode, use the following: defaults write com.apple.iCal ...

Doodle adds iCal connector for cloud scheduling

by Michael Grothaus (Dec 19th, 2011)

Mac users of the cloud-based scheduling service Doodle will be happy to learn that the company has released a beta of its iCal Connector software for Mac. Doodle is a service that lets users send out potential meeting dates to friends or clients. Those recipients see a poll with the meeting ...

iOS 5 features: Reminders

by Steven Sande (Oct 12th, 2011)

Of all of the new bits and pieces of iOS 5, one of the apps I'm using the most is Reminders. It's a simple yet effective app for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad that is used to set up self-reminders and task lists that are synced through iCloud. Let's take a look at this latest feature of iOS and Mac ...

Macworld's tips to make OS X Lion's iCal less annoying

by Chris Rawson (Sep 12th, 2011)

The changes made to iCal in OS X Lion have definitely been polarizing, and even some of the novice Mac users I know have found some of them questionable. The word "fugly" has come up more than once when discussing iCal's new faux-leather trim, an interface choice that makes a little more sense ...

Fantastical 1.0.2 for Mac supports BusyCal

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jul 8th, 2011)

While I read our review of Fantastical with much enthusiasm, as a longtime BusyCal user I simply couldn't afford to play dice with my calendar. But Fantastical 1.0.2 is now available, and the primary update appears to be that the natural-language calendar tool now plays nice with BusyCal. You can ...

Blotter for Mac puts iCal on your desktop

by Steven Sande (Jun 30th, 2011)

Back when I was in corporate America, an annual tradition was to order new calendars for the desk. I preferred the "day at a glance" type, but many of my fellow wage slaves liked these large desk blotter calendars that displayed a full month. Now there's a Mac app from WireLoad, Blotter ...

MobileMe: Some speculation about the transition to iCloud

by Steven Sande (Jun 7th, 2011)

I'll start this post off by stating the obvious -- there's a lot about how MobileMe services will transition to iCloud that we don't know yet. But I'm going to take a stab at some of the most pressing questions we've received from TUAW readers regarding the transition. As more facts come in, ...

How to: Share iCal calendars without MobileMe

by Mike Schramm (Jun 1st, 2011)

This how-to over at Gearz.de will help you share your iCal calendar around even if you don't have a subscription to Apple's online MobileMe service (a very forgivable offense, especially since its expected replacement iCloud service is now just a week away). Unfortunately, the writeup is a ...

Dear Aunt TUAW: Help fix iCal's fonts

by Erica Sadun (May 10th, 2011)

Dear Aunt TUAW, Why does Apple make it impossible to adjust the font in iCal? God, I sound like an old person... But seriously, wtf? Frustrated, Your nephew Brian B. ...