iCal and Address Book

No, once turned on it is "0" clicks... OMG

You just don't get it Robert because you obviously don't use iCal heavily in a business or the way that I do. I appreciate your coments / suggestions Robert but... Please scroll up and look at the posts of others. Or the link I posted earlier about earlier versions of iCal. As I said, steadily down hill... Which proves Apple's dis-interest in enterprise... But hey, they have $79 billion (with a B) in the bank, not me...

They do have over $100g's of mine (that's with a G).

No more tit for tat for me Robby, I need to get some work done 🙂

Entourage has a PPC installer, so even if you can find it you won't be able to install it, try Office 2011, works on Lion.

blips24 I couldn't agree more! The Lion version of iCal is a step backwards and has so many issues that it is totally unusuable!

- it is not readable in month layout at all - everything is in a tiny light grey font with the time for any appointment an even harder to see lighter grey font appearing after the event

- calendar colours in month view are replaced with a stupid tiny pastel dot taking up valuable space and being the only indicator of what calendar an event or appointment pertains to - absurd! So much for colour coding and quickly organizing one's day/week/month.

- you are no longer even able to create an event for another day in month view - the Quick Create feature has taken over the command N function and regardless of what date you have clicked on it only makes an event for the current day, assumes it is an all day event, and requires editing the date, name, time, end time, etc. manually just to enter an event - again totally absurd.

- the old iCal was poor an in need of so many features but at least it was usuable and readable! I can't believe that Apple - renown for usability and great interfaces - would release such a product! Didn't they do any user testing?

Like most others in this thread I'm off to try BusyCal and hope that it can do all the synchronization between MobileMe, the iPhone, iPad, etc. I was so hopeful for Calendar improvements in Lion and instead we get this quantum leap backwards with the faux leather look the best new feature...

yes, unbelievable.... busycal for me - they're going to make a heap of money out of this fiasco from Apple.

for what its worth....http://www.macworld.com/article/162218/2011/09/how_to_make_lions_ical_less_annoy ing.html#lsrc.rss_main

I agree with everything. What was a simple click into editing is now a cumbersome action, and the calendar has become far less readable. The loss of ease of reading seems to be symptomatic to this upgrade. What went into those guys? Design is supposed to increase ergonomics, not to counteract it.

I appreciate Apple's spirit of innovation but sometimes you need to leave well enough alone... In oversimplifying iCal it has become more difficult to use. I think the idea of emulating a desk calendar is silly. If I wanted a desk calendar I would just get a desk calendar. What I would like is iCal. The lack of Calendar Groups makes switching calendars tedious when you have multiple household members on one computer. It was very convienient to just switch between groups but having to individually deselect my wifes five calendars and reselect my 9 calendars every time I get home from work is a real hassle. This doesn't seem like anything that detract from any "experience" that Apple is trying to create with this new setup.

I also think it is pretty silly that you can see your calendars in the sidebar via the website but not when you open the application on your mac. I know that Apple likes controlling or "guiding" the user experience; however, that can hurt as much as help sometimes. It would have been very easy to set the new view as default and add an option in preferences for those who do not like desk calendars on their computer and would prefer the old view.

I am not sure if anyone up there reads this stuff but I hope some changes are made soon as I am looking into third party alternatives at this point.

Amen

lg2536 wrote:

I appreciate Apple's spirit of innovation but sometimes you need to leave well enough alone... In oversimplifying iCal it has become more difficult to use. I think the idea of emulating a desk calendar is silly. If I wanted a desk calendar I would just get a desk calendar. What I would like is iCal. The lack of Calendar Groups makes switching calendars tedious when you have multiple household members on one computer. It was very convienient to just switch between groups but having to individually deselect my wifes five calendars and reselect my 9 calendars every time I get home from work is a real hassle. This doesn't seem like anything that detract from any "experience" that Apple is trying to create with this new setup.

I also think it is pretty silly that you can see your calendars in the sidebar via the website but not when you open the application on your mac. I know that Apple likes controlling or "guiding" the user experience; however, that can hurt as much as help sometimes. It would have been very easy to set the new view as default and add an option in preferences for those who do not like desk calendars on their computer and would prefer the old view.

I am not sure if anyone up there reads this stuff but I hope some changes are made soon as I am looking into third party alternatives at this point.

The best calendar for OSX is BusyCal, check out the free preview.

APPLE TAKE NOTE: This is what your calendar app should look like....

http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/22/playbook-native-email-calendar-and-contacts-f inally-get-peeked/

Quite agree with all of this, also you can't attach files (documents or folders) to events, which I was used to doing. Apple seem to think the icloud facility is what everyone wants, but it's not for me.