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Wednesday, September 11, 2002

iCal - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
iCal rocks. iCal sucks. OK, it's a typical 1.0 iApp in the sense that Apple got a lot right, but muffed a lot of the details. What's good: The UI, which is gorgeous; the subscribe/publish features, which are sweet; and Apple's unbelievable Calendar Library, which I've used to subscribe to such things as US holidays, and the Boston Celtics and New England Patriots game schedules. Good stuff. But the features Apple really dropped the ball on are glaring. When a reminder window pops up for an event, there's no way, from that window, to "snooze" the alarm and have it remind you again at a later time; I use this feature all the time in Outlook and Palm Desktop. The ICS version it uses is incompatible with Outlook, which blows (and I don't care that it's Microsoft's fault; Outlook is the standard: Make it work). And here's a real basic problem: When you change your Time Zone, all your iCal appointment times change!!! Nuts. No doubt iCal 1.1 will fix a lot of these problems, but my God, what were they thinking? It's sooooo close.

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