Posts tagged ‘ical’
Awk and calendar events
December 7th, 2011 at 1:16 pm by Dr. Drang
What follows in another post in which I use some computer-y tools to hammer one of my boys’ sports schedules into a format I can import into iCal. This time it’s my older son’s swim meet schedule, which started as a table on a website and is now parked comfortably in all of my digital…
Another reason to hate iCal in Lion
October 24th, 2011 at 8:52 pm by Dr. Drang
I’ve been using Lion on my MacBook Air for quite a while, but I didn’t switch my office iMac to Lion until a couple of weeks ago. Normally, I don’t spend much time looking at my calendar on the Air, so I haven’t had much experience with the new iCal until recently. Like everyone, I…
Eliminating doubled iPhone calendar entries
October 19th, 2011 at 8:23 am by Dr. Drang
I upgraded to iOS 5 last Thursday, and it went pretty smoothly. The only exception was that most of my calendar events showed up doubled on the iPhone. After a weekend of hoping it was a temporary iClould glitch that would resolve itself, I decided on Monday I needed to do something to fix it.…
Ghost in the machine
April 12th, 2011 at 9:49 pm by Dr. Drang
Last week I had a weird experience as my office iMac began working on its own, switching Spaces and swapping windows while I watched helplessly. I soon figured out what had happened, but I’m still not sure why. Let’s start with a little background I use two Spaces: Space 2 is for iCal, and Space…
My iCal/iPhone time zone setup
March 13th, 2011 at 11:09 pm by Dr. Drang
Today’s switch to Daylight Saving Time1 reminded me that I wanted to write about how I deal with time zones in iCal and the iPhone. Let say up front that this is not necessarily the best way to handle timezones, but it’s what I arrived at after some trial and error—mostly error. If you know…
AppleScript for calendar views
February 14th, 2011 at 10:45 pm by Dr. Drang
In my post about BusyCal last year, I mentioned a user interface problem I had with both BusyCal and iCal: they seem to think the first day of the week should be the same for both Week and Month views. This drives me crazy, so today I finally wrote a couple of AppleScripts for iCal…
Scheduling to-dos
April 15th, 2010 at 4:01 pm by Dr. Drang
Geez, it’s been a while since I last posted an original script here, so let’s fix that. One of the things I miss about OmniFocus is its ability to hide tasks until a given date. The advantage of being able to do this is that you can add the task when it comes to you,…
Extending the Calendar Events bundle for TextMate
January 8th, 2010 at 4:21 pm by Dr. Drang
I’ve added a new command to my Calendar Events bundle for TextMate (described in this post and available in this GitHub repository). The new command saves the generated iCalendar document to a temporary file and opens that file in iCal (or, presumably, BusyCal, if that’s your default calendar program). When an iCalendar file is opened…
Calendar events bundle for TextMate
January 7th, 2010 at 1:13 pm by Dr. Drang
I think most users would agree that entering new events in iCal has always been clumsy and the Snow Leopard update just made it clumsier. I mentioned in a post last week that BusyCal’s entry method was distinctly better, although overall, BusyCal wasn’t enough of an improvement to get me to switch. In the past,…
Why I won’t be switching to BusyCal
January 2nd, 2010 at 8:04 pm by Dr. Drang
After reading Wolf Rentzsch’s review of BusyCal (which I was led to my this Daring Fireball link), I decided to download it and give it quick test run. My initial impression is that its improvements over iCal aren’t enough to justify a switch. Let me start by saying that BusyCal’s greatest strength—the ease with which…
