calendar program, what do you use?

[davester]

I like having my calendar online so that I can link to it from various devices/places. I haven't tried it yet, but was going to give webcalendar http://www.k5n.us/webcalendar.php a try. It's been highly rated where I've seen reviews.

[ztirffritz]

I use Google Calendar. It syncs with iCal, Evolution, Outlook, and is visible online.

[davemchine]

How do you sync ical with google calendar?

Dave

[chas_m]

iCal meets my needs, and I have a pretty busy life.

[TheTominator]

[quote davemchine]addressbook cannot import anniversaries from a vcard. Yet I was able to use a 3rd party program to import anniversaries into addressbook. Very frustrating.
I created an AddressBook entry with a birthday and an anniversary. I exported a vCard. I removed the birthday and anniversary from the record in AddressBook. I imported the vCard and it imported both the birthday and anniversary perfectly.

Looking into the vCard with a text editor (BBEdit), I can see that the vCard uses the keyword "BDAY" to denote the birthday ("BDAY;value=date:1960-02-21") ; however, it uses a non-standard extension mechanism to specify the anniversary:

item1.X-ABDATE;type=pref:2000-04-04
item1.X-ABLabel:_$!!$_

As far as I can tell, there is no vCard 3.0 standard for specifying the anniversary whereas there is one for specifying the birthday. This would explain why there would be incompatibiltiy between programs reading and writing vCards with anniveraries in them. Each program is left to its own devices to figure out a way to express the anniversary. You are putting the blame on AddressBook for not using some third-party convention for the expressing anniversary whereas you could have blamed the program that wrote the vCard instead for not using AddressBook's convention.

[wurm]

[quote chas_m]iCal meets my needs, and I have a pretty busy life.
How do you deal with not being able to have the event end time not show up when printing? Or do you never print out a calendar?

[mjgkramer]

We have been using Now Up To Date on our home network for many years under many versions of the Mac OS and of Now. I just checked and see our calendar entries as far back as July 1993. It is a highly capable calendar program and allows access to the same calendar from multiple machines, although you do have to buy multiple copies. We have four licenses.