iCal

[pasithea]

When I was given the G4 cube, one item in the control strip at the bottom was an innocuous looking picture of a Calendar. I was about to delete it from the list, when I decided instead to poke at it and see what it was. It's name is iCal (iCalendar) and it is a very useful freebie tool! It's like a virtual day runner except it can send you e-mail or beep at you or put up a message on the screen to remind you to do things (Or all three if you like) Very very useful for someone like me who likes to attempt to do a LOT of tasks but can sometimes need to be more organized. Even with a dayrunner, I find I don't always get to the scheduled tasks I've given myself.
So, anxious to put it to use, I searched for it on my computer at work, only to find (to my disappointment) that it was not in 10.2.3 But not to fear. Two days later, the 10.2.4 update installed and suddenly iCal was there! I happily filled everything out, then went to try publishing one calendar so I could share it with my other computer and found that it needed a .mac account or a webDV account.
Foo... But wait.... OSX is Unix underneath! AH-HA! After a teeny bit of research and an hour or two of coding, I had a cute little shell script that uses NCFTP (A freeware gnu tool with command-line FTP power) to synch my work iCal with my home iCal! Yay! :) So now I feel organized, inventive, and successful! Not to mention, very happy with OSX cause it's really unix! :)
If anyone is interested, my script (and NCFTP packaged with it because I had some trouble with their packager) is at http://circle.twu.net/src/ical.tar.Z Feel free to download/fiddle/modify/etc. :)
Hmm. Maybe next I'll poke at Trebuchet and figure out why it doesn't accept cut-and-paste keyboard commands on Mac OSX. :)

-Sammi

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As far as I can tell, the Aqua port of Tk just has some serious problems with key bindings. :P