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New birthday icon for Calendar in iOS 4.2

by Michael Gray (Nov 23rd, 2010)

The release of iOS 4.2 has brought us a nice little surprise in the form of the new icon shown in this post. If you're tracking birthdays in your Contacts application, those birthdays will appear in your iCal calendar with a little gift package icon. It's a nice little touch to the friendly ...

Alarms helps out with 'productive procrastination'

by Brett Terpstra (Sep 16th, 2010)

I started playing with a new app called Alarms yesterday, and it's already become indispensable to me. It's rare that something fits so perfectly into my workflow that I don't think twice about the space it takes up in my (already frighteningly crowded) menubar. What is it, you ask? It's an ...

TUAW's tips for gifting an iPad for Mother's Day

by Sang Tang (May 7th, 2010)

Still searching for that perfect Mother's Day gift for your mom or wife? Why not get her an iPad? Buy Mom a computer? You're kidding me, right? The iPad's versatility lends itself to some computer-like comparisons. And a natural response to this would be: "Who would want a computer for a Mother's ...

Ask TUAW: Clocks, screen guards, MacBook hard drive replacement, NFS automount, and more

by Mat Lu (Mar 14th, 2010)

Welcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we have questions about replacing a MacBook hard drive, refreshing a NFS mount, getting a simple clock on screen, improving iCal's note handling, and more. As always, your suggestions and questions are welcome. Leave ...

iCalShare relaunches

by Michael Grothaus (Mar 12th, 2010)

After a long absence iCalShare.com has relaunched with new search tools and an improved user interface. iCalShare is a site dedicated to sharing calendars for use in applications like iCal, Google Calendar, or Outlook among dozens of other web and desktop apps. The site contains over 3,500 ...

Ask TUAW: Silencing iPhone notifications, remote control a PC, printing over the internet, and more

by Mat Lu (Nov 19th, 2009)

Welcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we've got questions about controlling a PC over the internet, silencing iPhone email notifications at night, replacing a MacBook Pro SuperDrive with a hard drive, printing over the internet, setting iCal as the default ...

Ask TUAW: Joystick as mouse, remote access, PC friendly zip files, and more

by Mat Lu (Oct 14th, 2009)

Welcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we've got questions about using a joystick as a mouse, remotely accessing a Mac from a PC, creating zip files without the Mac-specific metadata, replicating certain Windows features, and more. As always, your suggestions ...

Add Apple's free Backup.app to your backup toolbox

by TJ Luoma (Oct 13th, 2009)

When most people think about Apple and backups they probably think about Time Machine or perhaps even Time Capsule. But Apple has a lesser-known application which you might consider using. The app, simply named Backup, was originally available only to .Mac users, but is now openly available on ...

BusyCal is out and just as awesome as BusySync

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Sep 30th, 2009)

Let's face it, data sync is the real Big Bag of Hurt in our brave, digital world. But since I started using BusySync over a year ago, much of my calendar sync issues have dissolved away. BusyCal, the successor to BusySync, was recently released and it is just as amazing as BusySync at keeping your ...

Ask TUAW: Syncing, custom keyboards, sharing iPhone apps, and more

by Mat Lu (Sep 30th, 2009)

Welcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly Mac troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we've got lots of questions about syncing, as well as customized keyboards, sharing iPhone apps, managing iTunes, and more. As always, your suggestions and questions are welcome. Questions for next week should be ...

First Look: Minimalist time tracking on Mac using Minco

by Steven Sande (Sep 21st, 2009)

Mauritius is a minimalist island nation in the Indian Ocean, and from that tiny set of spots on the map comes a new Mac time-tracking application for anyone who needs to keep track of how much time they spend on tasks. Minco, now in public beta from Celmaro, is a minuscule Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard ...

iCal all-day events causing MobileMe calendars to hiccup?

by Josh Carr (Sep 8th, 2009)

We received a tip from a frustrated reader this morning noting that when he published a calendar to MobileMe with iCal, it wasn't showing up if there were any all-day events in the calendar. I sorted through a few different examples and was able to verify that any calendar with 'all-day' events ...

Snow Leopard and Microsoft Exchange first impressions

by Chris Ullrich (Aug 30th, 2009)

One of the things touted in this latest incarnation of Mac OSX was its ability to work with Microsoft Exchange using Apple's Mail, Address Book and iCal applications. Well, I'm happy to report that Snow Leopard does, in fact, work pretty well with Exchange 2007. Granted, this is only after ...

The iConcertCal app gets you to the show

by David Winograd (Jul 30th, 2009)

iConcertCal is a new app for the iPhone that lets you track where and when all your favorite musicians are performing. Using some of the new features in the APIs of iPhone OS 3.0, it reads all the artists in the iTunes library of your iPhone, uses the built in GPS to find your location and then ...

Beta Beat: BusyCal from BusyMac

by Brett Terpstra (Jul 27th, 2009)

The BusyCal public beta is out! I got a preview of BusyCal while at WWDC this year, and have been anxiously awaiting the chance to put it into action. As the developers state on the homepage: "Think of it as iCal Pro." The next step from the makers of BusySync, BusyCal offers a full calendaring ...