iCal – The Graphic Mac http://www.thegraphicmac.com Thu, 18 Aug 2016 15:30:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6 30361562 Sharing calendars with iCloud http://www.thegraphicmac.com/sharing-calendars-with-icloud http://www.thegraphicmac.com/sharing-calendars-with-icloud#comments Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:30:10 +0000 http://www.thegraphicmac.com/?p=6281 Related posts:
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]]> The transition from MobileMe to iCloud couldn’t be easier, but the features and functions you have or don’t have couldn’t be more cloudy (pun intended). One of the common misconceptions I keep hearing about is that once you move to iCloud, you no longer can share a single calendar with other users. This couldn’t be further from the truth.

iCloud calendar sharing

iCloud calendar sharing requires a visit to your iCloud web page

You can share an iCal calendar with any iCloud user – but you’ll have to visit the iCloud.com calendar page to do it. Just click the little icon next to the calendar or reminder list you wish to share, and enter the email address of the user you want to share with. That’s it.

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]]> http://www.thegraphicmac.com/sharing-calendars-with-icloud/feed 3 6281 Quickly add events to your iCal calendar with Remind Me Later http://www.thegraphicmac.com/quickly-add-events-to-your-ical-calendar-with-remind-me-later http://www.thegraphicmac.com/quickly-add-events-to-your-ical-calendar-with-remind-me-later#comments Fri, 06 May 2011 13:00:14 +0000 http://www.thegraphicmac.com/?p=5253 I love the simplicity of iCal as my calendar application of choice on the Mac. But one thing that seems unnecessarily cumbersome is adding events to the calendar. Thankfully, there's a free app that makes it so much easier.
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]]> I love the simplicity of iCal as my calendar application of choice on the Mac. But one thing that seems unnecessarily cumbersome is adding events to the calendar.

When I want to add a simple reminder to my calendar, I have to launch iCal, find the date (if I’m lucky it’s in the same week I happen to be displaying), click to add an event, double the event name to edit it, click yet again to make time adjustments, then place a bandage on my bleeding head from banging it on my desk. It shouldn’t be that difficult.

Thankfully, Remind Me Later (Free) relieves me of the keystrokes and the bleeding head.

Remind Me Later

Remind Me Later makes adding events to iCal easy

Remind Me Later lives in the menubar, and allows me to add calendar events using simple plain language in a single dialog box which I can activate with a keyboard shortcut, or clicking the icon in the menubar. It’s even smart enough to understand that fri 530pm means “this Friday” at “5:30 pm.” I just love how simple the interface is, and am amazed at how such a single feature app can make my day easier.

Once you download the app from the website or the Apple Mac Store, you make a few configurations in the preferences and you’re off and running. If you use iCal, and add frequent new events, Remind Me Later is virtually the perfect add-on.

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]]> http://www.thegraphicmac.com/quickly-add-events-to-your-ical-calendar-with-remind-me-later/feed 1 5253 Add a calendar on your desktop http://www.thegraphicmac.com/add-calendar-your-desktop Tue, 12 May 2009 12:39:35 +0000 http://www.thegraphicmac.com/wordpress/?p=758 DateLine I love applications that serve their purpose with little-to-no user interface. Something as simple as adding a calendar to your desktop should not require much, if any, work on my part. Thankfully, there is just such an app available for the Mac, and it’s free! DateLine is a simple little app that packs just enough features into itself to make it as useful to use as it is beautiful to look at.… Read the rest

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]]> DateLine I love applications that serve their purpose with little-to-no user interface. Something as simple as adding a calendar to your desktop should not require much, if any, work on my part. Thankfully, there is just such an app available for the Mac, and it’s free! DateLine is a simple little app that packs just enough features into itself to make it as useful to use as it is beautiful to look at. DateLine simply puts a linear calendar on your desktop. There are plenty of calendar apps out there that can do this, but none I’ve come across put them on the desktop horizontally, and look so good. DateLine DateLine’s preferences allow you to customize the color of the text, the lines and the color of the background. You can also adjust the transparency of all those items to suit your taste. Clicking on a date or the month, opens iCal and highlights that day in your calendar. The only issue I had with the application was that when you choose to hide the dock icon in the preferences, you lose all apparent access to the DateLine application preferences. Not only does the icon not show up in the dock, but you can’t switch to the app with Command + Tab. This isn’t a big deal, because there’s little reason to go back to the preferences once you set them – but it’s still an annoyance that should be corrected. And apparently the developer knows this, because he quickly replied to my email regarding the matter. Not only is a contextual menu in the works, but he shared with me that you can indeed access the prefs by clicking on the DateLine calendar and hitting Command , to bring up the preferences. DateLine is Open Source, and free to use on any Mac running OSX 10.5 or higher.

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]]> 758 Accepting an invitation on a specific Apple iCal calendar http://www.thegraphicmac.com/accepting-invitation-specific-apple-ical-calendar http://www.thegraphicmac.com/accepting-invitation-specific-apple-ical-calendar#comments Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:20:03 +0000 http://www.thegraphicmac.com/wordpress/?p=1122 If you have multiple calendars set up in Apple’s iCal application and you receive an invite from a friend, family member or client, you can easily decide which calendar you want the invite to be placed in. Simply hold down the Accept button, rather than just clicking on it, to get a pop-up menu which allows you to choose which iCal calendar it should be placed in.… Read the rest

]]> If you have multiple calendars set up in Apple’s iCal application and you receive an invite from a friend, family member or client, you can easily decide which calendar you want the invite to be placed in. Simply hold down the Accept button, rather than just clicking on it, to get a pop-up menu which allows you to choose which iCal calendar it should be placed in.

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