I have been using iCal as my calendaring solution since Apple’s move to Intel made running Office 2004 for Mac even more painful than before. Now that Office 2008 for Mac is now a Universal Binary, I made the move over to Entourage 2008 last night. I worked through some inconsistencies between the calendars and at the 85-95% level decided to go ahead and use Sync Services to sync Entourage calendar events with iCal (and on to my iPhone) and delete the iCal calendars.
That’s when the annoyance rears its ugly head - iCal won’t allow you to delete a calendar without notifying everyone of the deletion. I had to hop off the network, allow iCal to queue up the email, and then delete those emails in Mail.app. This is a very annoying change from previous versions of iCal that queried if you wanted to delete or delete and notify.
In any case, I am running on Entourage for work email and calendaring with the sync over to iCal. I still don’t like the individual metadata files that Entourage uses for Spotlight to overcome the non-searchable monolithic database it uses. From first 24 hours of use I am neither thrilled nor disgusted by Entourage. In a few more days I should be able to provide more feedback.
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Write a Comment»I find that iCal has taken a step backwards as far as usability goes. There was nothing wrong with Tiger’s iCal, except for some timezone breakages. Leopard’s iCal never fixed those timezone breakages, but broke a lot more things. (a) Since there is no drawer, I have to click on every event to check the notes. Notes popping up on the side in the same view was very handy. (b) Editing or adding notes, headings, locations, etc, changing the Timezone of an event requires additional clicks and keystrokes. With this said, I am downgrading to Tiger’s iCal. A simple drag and drop replacement of Leopard’s iCal with Tiger’s iCal did the trick. So I dont get the fancy Mail.app integration with Tiger’s iCal. I shall live with that.
Apple - “If it aint broke, dont fix it”.