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You know what? After using iCal for a million years, I've decided I really hate it. The font is too small and the colors are too washed out.
Is there any way to fix either of these issues? Or maybe a replacement that would cross reference across the MacBook, the iPhone and the iPad?
As near as Ican tell the only advantage is that it does cross reference between these three.
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What does cross reference mean?
If you mean share across multiple devices, there are a couple of things you could do - publish/subscribe your calendars, add-on software called
BusyCal that lets you manage calendars across multiple devices, or you could switch completely to Google's calendar system.
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check out TUAW. They had a story on how to fix iCal.
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Gmail calendar will work/sync across you devices.
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I like Google calendar a lot. Aside from having access to it wherever I have internet access, it syncs seemlessly with my Palm Pixi over wifi or 3g in the background. I may be wrong, but I seem to recall that iCal won't sync easily with anything but an iphone.
I still fire up iCal and have it "backup" my Google calendar data but my phone also makes a good backup when I'm not near a computer or am offline.
Lastly, google provides a free CalDAV server so I can share for free.
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Also frustrated with iCal, addressbook etc
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Palm Desktop still gets top marks from me as a PIM.
Address List, To Do List, Memo List, and Date Book all integrated together.
If anyone comes up with a replacement as elegant as this software, let me know. They stopped updating a number of years ago, and it won't run on Lion.
