Stephen,
I am an iCal user. Unfortunately iCal has taken several big steps
backward with Leopard.
I'm having a lot of trouble with alarms - they are inevitably wrong
(by 1 hr or 8 hrs) when they originate from an invitation from an
Outlook user. But they are reliable when I set them up myself. Not
everyone seems to have this problem, but I've tried to fix and can't
(even tried all Ronni's tips).
iCal won't let you change events that have come in from someone else -
very annoying if they are wrong, but even if they are right sometimes
you want a different title to display, but cannot amend at all (just
decline).
Its also a lot harder to edit events, many clicks just to get to the
fields.
All a bit of a shame, as iCal was great before Leopard. I'm seriously
looking at alternatives right now. Perhaps Google Calendar.
For someone just used to Outlook calendar (and who deals with Outlook
users), iCal will probably disappoint. I haven't been using
Entourage, not sure if the calendaring in that works properly (I
suspect the problems I am seeing are to do with timezones in Leopard,
not iCal specifically - doesn't really matter if iCal is the app that
presents the problem).
Glenn.
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Hi folks,
I know someone who has made the switch from The Dark Side.
They have asked me some questions about iCal.
Apparently the Alarms seem unreliable.
They do not always notify when they should and the Snooze setup rarely
works.
Also there does not seem any way to set alarms for birthdays,
This is all a little disappointing as he needs some of these
facilities for work.
Does anyone have any comments or ideas re this, as I am not a user of
iCal ?
Regards,
Stephen Chape
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