Apple today released iCal 1.5.4 via Software Update (7.7MB) which includes security enhancements to help protect your computer when importing events with alarms that open files or applications. iCal 1.5.4 includes a new security improvement for imported events with alarms. iCal 1.5.2, the previous release, included enhancements in the Info Drawer, To Do alarms and notes, keyboard shortcuts, time zone support, publishing and subscribing behind firewalls, and other stability and performance improvements.
Synchronizing iCal 1.5.4: To synchronize your iCal information with mobile phones, PDAs, iPods or other Macs, iCal 1.5.4 requires iSync 1.2.1 or later. Equivalent versions of iCal and iSync are required in every Mac that is being synchronized. Install iCal before installing iSync.
System Requirements
– Mac OS X v10.2.3 or later
– Publishing calendars on the Internet requires a .Mac membership or a WebDAV server.
More info and download link here.
I want iCal to show weather forecasts (taken from the Internet) and moon phases!
sad muppet.
Why is Gambit a “sad muppet” for wanting iCal to show weather forecasts and moon phases? I personally would like to see such a useful feature as well. Such a feature would be helpful to anyone who actually steps outside their house.
Will:
“Such a feature would be helpful to anyone who actually steps outside their house.”
lol.. ouch! touche.
I want my iCal to hook me up with some nice women!! Is that too much to ask?
Weather forecats? No, not yet — but iCal WILL do the Moon Phase. Subscribe to the calendar from Apple. Really. It works. It does.
iCal blind date management? That’d be OSX 10.4 Tiger’s new iDate feature for iLoser’s.
All I want is for iCal not to suck so badly.
I love Apple and my Macs, but iCal is simply the worst program in the Apple family.
And sadly, the neglect continues in Tiger.
Can’t Apple just look at a calendaring program from 1995 and give us those features. Sure, it won’t be world class, but it will still be 10 times better than even what the Tiger version is showing.
Pages of notes of feedback sent to Apple requesting even the most basic functionality have gone ignored. I just don’t understand why Apple doesn’t understand why a good calendaring program is so critical in business environments.
I hate to be so negative, but the neglect of iCal is disappointing given how hard it is for people like me to champion Apple in business.
(and yes, there are alternatives, I know, but none with the integration with OSX we need.)
Well you could run Meteorologist it will tell you all that in a nice little menu bar and its free http://sourceforge.net/projects/heat-meteo/
How about publishing to FTP servers, not just WebDAV.
I agree, Retro — iCal is the worst program available for the Mac. It doesn’t even seem like an Apple program.
I can’t believe after this many releases the TO DO list is so completely unmanageable and non-intuitive. All I need is a good to do list that’s easy to sort and filter. That 1/2/3 line indicator for urgency is awful, and there needs to be some kind of easy access via a dropdown menu from the finder.
I just don’t get why they dropped the ball on this program.
You can get the weather (current and forcasts) in iCal:
http://www.project24.info/
It’s OK, but it would be better if it displayed the forcasts at the top in the All Day events.
Apple should build weather into iCal so we could click on location in an event and choose forcast (like you can dial and SMS with BT phones from Address Book). While they’re at it, iCal locations should have an option of entering an address or choosing one from the Address Book. Then they could add a show map option. Mmmmmm. Integrated goodness.
iWish they would combine a new iCal with iSync, Mail, Address Book, Stickies, and iChat. I don’t think MicroShaft Outlook could compeat with that on any level. Long live the king(mac).
I agree. iCal has a long way to go to be insanely great. I sent Apple an email on it a while back telling them they should just buy Daymaker since that went defunct and was the best calendar/scheduler program I have ever used. I still use it occaisionally in classic, if you can believe that, but can’t put all my schedule in it since probably (someday) it will no longer work with a new incarnation of the OS and all the data will be unaccessible.
I’m not sure that you need worry about having your data not working with a new version – iCal uses a standardised file format to store it’s info, so you can just take the files and put them into other programs. No conversion needed.
What I want is for the iCal categories to match up with my Palm Zire categories, so I don’t have to assign each even twice!
Is there any record of an Apple person of any influence ever reading this board” Or are all these great sugggestions to improve the orphan program from Apple just going unheard? In other words, where can one comment on Appple products that might have some influence?
“WeatherDock” is a great little program that sych with weather.com and gives you info on any city in the world
Thanks, gMan, for the link. Project24 is in the right direction with weather forecasts in iCal, but I wanna see cool weather icons instead of just text.
I appreciate the other suggestions from others, but I already know about the weather in the dock, menu bar, and the weather widget with Konfabulator.
If you have a good idea, send Apple a feature request. Most software providers take feature requests seriously (including how many requests for a feature). And Apple seems more interested than usual in iCal feedback — There’s a “Provide iCal Feedback” item in the iCal menu that takes you here:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ical.html
I got a bit carried away and wrote a nine-point request for location (virtual and physical) support in calendars and events, iCal location / Address Book integration, opening virtual locations from iCal (start an email, chat or phone call), location mapping and location weather (current conditions and forcasts for calendars in the All Day events area, severe weather alerts with alarms and forcasts for event locations).
Weather icons would be a good thing to add to this.
Now, if Apple adds these features, then I’ll have to send a feature request to MenuCalendarClock (http://www.objectpark.net/mcc.html) to show weather info from iCal in the menu bar or menu bar drop-down…