Publisher's Description
From BusyMac:
BusyCal is our new product that combines a beautiful, personal desktop calendar with our award winning calendar sharing and syncing technology -- in one integrated application. Designed for families and small workgroups, BusyCal allows users to easily and cost-effectively share calendars on a local area network and over the internet without the need for a dedicated server, and to sync with Google Calendar. Shared calendars can be viewed and edited by multiple users and changes are instantly synchronized between users. In addition to calendar syncing, BusyCal also provides the ability to enter and view event details in a non-modal floating window or an embedded info pane; create To Dos, including recurring To Dos, that display in the calendar and auto-forward until completed; display events in several customizable views including a List View and scrolling Month and Week Views; display graphics, sticky notes, live weather feeds and moon phases in your calendar; apply custom font styles and colors to events; and display alarms in a window and on the menu bar. Plus a whole host of under the hood performance improvements. BusyCal syncs with the iPhone, MobileMe, and just about any other application or device that supports Sync Services. And its backward compatible with BusySync too.
What's new in this version:
- Lion compatibility.
- Supports full screen mode on Lion.
- Supports trackpad gestures on Lion.
- Supports new scrollbars on Lion.
- Supports Address Book yearless birthdays on Lion.
- Supports Fantastical.
- Preliminary support for iCloud beta.
- Improved recurring event copy/paste handling.
- Google Calendar meeting requests can be accepted in BusyCal.
- Fixes Google Calendar syncing bug that caused changes in newly create... See all new features
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All versions:
4.2 starsout of 25 votes
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Current version:
2.5 starsout of 2 votes
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"Excellent Calendar to Replace iCal or Palm Desktop"
Version: BusyCal 1.5.4
Pros
Superior "find events" feature
Much more attractive than iCal or Palm Desktop
Extensive "notes" may be attached to events
Auto assignment of color to new calendar
"To Do" List pops up & must be dismissed or postponedCons
Doesn't allow user assignment of calendar colors
Selecting a calendar to work with is not intuitive
Function for easily changing dates/hours not presentSummary
I've been using iCal since it was available, & also using Palm Desktop Calendar, which still works with Mac OS 10.6.8. I wanted a calendar which allows better finding & listing of events than either of those two, & BusyCal is perfect for that function. It allows a list view of events found, & finds events over a period of a day, week, month, year, or decade.
It automatically assigns a color to any new calendar created, which is a nice feature, but it should allow for a manual over-ride of the chosen color, in case the user wants to assign a particular color.
When using multiple calendars, it's not intuitive. I had a hard time figuring out that clicking the check-box for a calendar pertained ONLY to visibility of that calendar's events, & not to adding events or editing events for that calendar. To add/edit events, you must also highlight the calendar's name. It's possible to have one calendar's events visible, but any editing you do applies to an invisible calendar (if the visible calendar is not highlighted). In that case, BusyCal, makes the other calendar visible as well. A bit confusing until you get the hang of it, then it becomes simple.
Both iCal & Palm Desktop allow dates/times to be edited by either pressing the up/down arrow keys, or by using the cmd-[plus key]/ cmd-[minus key]. BusyCal has plenty of shortcuts for date/time entry, but omits that particularly useful shortcut. To increase or decrease the date or time, you must do additional typing, unlike the other two programs.
I contacted their customer support (while still using a trial version) & found them to be very responsive to my emailed question, even though I was not yet a paid user, so I rate their Customer Service very highly.
This is a fairly expensive program for what it is ($49), but worth it if you need the advanced list feature, attractive look, overall ease of use, extended notes feature, etc. -
"Not compatible with Apple Mail"
Version: BusyCal 1.5.4
Pros
Shows the weather
Cons
Cannot import events from Apple Mail (Apple Mail's single most useful feature. Bad tech support.
Summary
Stick with iCal. Apple has if doing everything Busycal does and iCal is fully compatible with Apple products.
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