08-24-2006, 01:41 AM
If you'd just bother to experiment a little with iCal, or perhaps -- GASP! -- skim through the help file, you would find that it is, in fact, as easy to use (if not easier -- I'll wager there's no intelligent "repeating events" ability for example) than your old OS 9 program *and* better/more powerful.
F'instance: can you set up a repeating event that usually happens the third Thursday of each month (though it will move if that date conflicts with a holiday) that emails you and any other parties involved a week before the event AND reminds you with a message (with alarm) the day of the event, AND deletes it's old alarms after they've happened?
Not only can iCal do that, but it can do it by simply typing the event in and clicking a couple of buttons. Total entry time could be as little as 15 seconds for something like that.
Well, now you do. Go learn.
F'instance: can you set up a repeating event that usually happens the third Thursday of each month (though it will move if that date conflicts with a holiday) that emails you and any other parties involved a week before the event AND reminds you with a message (with alarm) the day of the event, AND deletes it's old alarms after they've happened?
Not only can iCal do that, but it can do it by simply typing the event in and clicking a couple of buttons. Total entry time could be as little as 15 seconds for something like that.
Well, now you do. Go learn.