Mac 101

September 14, 2010 in How-To by Bob Faulhaber

Mac OS X Server’s iCal Server was introduced in Leopard Server as a centralized solution for scheduling meetings, events and resources. With Snow Leopard, group and shared calendars were introduced, along with push notification of event updates and the ability to coordinate events with external users.

If you are looking for a calendaring solution for your business or company and don’t want to be locked into proprietary solutions from Microsoft, Novell or other companies, iCal is based on open standards, so you can assured that iCal will work with many other applications and across platforms.

June 10, 2010 in How-To by Bob Faulhaber

Do you often need to keep your calendars in sync across your Apple devices, iCal and Google Calendar? Well, syncing your iPhone to iCal is easy, just connect your device to iTunes using the Apple-supplied USB cable. But how about Google Calendar? And what happens if you are away from your office and computer a lot?

Well using a combination of software and Google Sync, you can keep your iCal calendar on multiple Macs and iPhone or other devices in sync with Google Calendar without having to physically connect your devices to a computer.

November 30, 2009 in Reviews by Bob Faulhaber

Have you noticed problems with your iCal calendar or your Address Book on your Mac? Over time small problems, such as duplicates, bad recurrence rules or just bad records can pop up and give you headaches trying to accurately find and fix them. Spanning Tools for Mac bring together a suite of tools that will help you find, diagnose and repair errors in iCal, Address Book and Sync Services quickly and easily.

September 28, 2009 in Tips & Tricks by Bob Faulhaber

Do you schedule events and meetings in iCal that are shorter than 1 hour? Are you frustrated that there is no way to change the default duration in iCal? Well, with a simple Terminal command, you can customize and change the default duration to whatever suits your needs best.

August 20, 2009 in How-To, Tips & Tricks by Bob Faulhaber

Do you travel between time zones on a regular basis? Have you ever changed your computer’s time zone to reflect your present time zone and all event time stamps get changed causing scheduling confusion? iCal has the ability to let you easily specify time zones and not affect the times of past events.

June 24, 2009 in How-To, Tips & Tricks by Bob Faulhaber

Do you sometimes need a reminder for an important event or meeting? If you leave your home or office computer on at all times, it’s easy with a few steps to setup your Address Book and iCal to send you an email.

May 25, 2009 in How-To, Tips & Tricks by Bob Faulhaber

Has iCal started appearing sluggish when you move from day to day, or when opening events? Then it may be time to do some house-cleaning of the iCal database.

May 2, 2009 in How-To by Mark

Google released CalDAV in 08 then followed up with the application called Calaboration. This simple app will get your Google Calendar and iCal to play nicely together via Bi-Directional sync.