Comments on: Uninstalling iCalFix http://www.robertblum.com/articles/2008/02/02/uninstalling-icalfix Rachel Blum on Software, Games And The Rest Of Life Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:03:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: greg http://www.robertblum.com/articles/2008/02/02/uninstalling-icalfix/comment-page-1#comment-59421 greg Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:50:18 +0000 http://www.robertblum.com/articles/2008/02/02/uninstalling-icalfix#comment-59421 <p>Hi Robert,</p> <p>I'm still a Tiger hold-out and really like icalFix. However is there any way to set other types of alarms? I primarily use an email alarm. Is there a way to have iCalFix do this?</p> <p>thanks much, Greg</p> Hi Robert,

I’m still a Tiger hold-out and really like icalFix. However is there any way to set other types of alarms? I primarily use an email alarm. Is there a way to have iCalFix do this?

thanks much, Greg

]]> By: dxtr http://www.robertblum.com/articles/2008/02/02/uninstalling-icalfix/comment-page-1#comment-56537 dxtr Fri, 02 May 2008 07:27:42 +0000 http://www.robertblum.com/articles/2008/02/02/uninstalling-icalfix#comment-56537 <p>I would like to be able to use this with my Point of Sale program, LightSpeed, also. It creates events as Mail does but has the same problem of no alarm even though iCal has the Add alarm box checked.... More than happy to pay for this.... seeya dxtr</p> I would like to be able to use this with my Point of Sale program, LightSpeed, also. It creates events as Mail does but has the same problem of no alarm even though iCal has the Add alarm box checked…. More than happy to pay for this…. seeya dxtr

]]> By: Robert Blum http://www.robertblum.com/articles/2008/02/02/uninstalling-icalfix/comment-page-1#comment-49649 Robert Blum Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:28:25 +0000 http://www.robertblum.com/articles/2008/02/02/uninstalling-icalfix#comment-49649 <p>Dang - there's a surprising amount of people who seem to rely on iCalFix. As a result, I'm investigating how I could keep it alive. No promises here - I'd like to get out of the InputManager ghetto, at least, and that's going to be tricky.</p> Dang – there’s a surprising amount of people who seem to rely on iCalFix. As a result, I’m investigating how I could keep it alive. No promises here – I’d like to get out of the InputManager ghetto, at least, and that’s going to be tricky.

]]> By: eph http://www.robertblum.com/articles/2008/02/02/uninstalling-icalfix/comment-page-1#comment-49573 eph Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:27:23 +0000 http://www.robertblum.com/articles/2008/02/02/uninstalling-icalfix#comment-49573 <p>Wait, Robert, don't kill it yet!</p> <p>I'm glad there's a new default alarm setting in iCal in 10.5 so i don't have to use iCalFix anymore to finagle that, but iCal or the Data detectors in Mail don't honor that default setting when setting up an ical event from a mail message. </p> <p>So I have to go down and select "Alarm - none" in the floating window, set it to "Message with sound", Then change the settings to what I like (1 day before). That's already more clicks than I needed with Mail2iCal or other pre-Leopard hacks for this. The other annoying thing is that if I try to solely use the keyboard for setting up the event from Mail, I can tab to the alarm menu, but then as soon as I select "message with sound" it puts the focus in the number field and won't let me tab out to set it to "days before" instead of "minutes before", so I have to go back to the mouse!</p> <p>I hope you can still fix this, makes data detectors, which I love, imminently less useful.</p> Wait, Robert, don’t kill it yet!

I’m glad there’s a new default alarm setting in iCal in 10.5 so i don’t have to use iCalFix anymore to finagle that, but iCal or the Data detectors in Mail don’t honor that default setting when setting up an ical event from a mail message.

So I have to go down and select “Alarm – none” in the floating window, set it to “Message with sound”, Then change the settings to what I like (1 day before). That’s already more clicks than I needed with Mail2iCal or other pre-Leopard hacks for this. The other annoying thing is that if I try to solely use the keyboard for setting up the event from Mail, I can tab to the alarm menu, but then as soon as I select “message with sound” it puts the focus in the number field and won’t let me tab out to set it to “days before” instead of “minutes before”, so I have to go back to the mouse!

I hope you can still fix this, makes data detectors, which I love, imminently less useful.

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