If you’re a user of QuickCal’s menu bar, you can hook in your Facebook events and birthdays into this quite easily! Facebook has nice webcal:// links which can be used to synchronize FB calendars to any calendar app (in our case, it will be iCal, which then will sync to QuickCal).
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There’s quite a few people who have written about how to use QuickCal w/ Google delegate calendars, or non-primary Google calendars. This actually isn’t a simple thing to set up in Mac OS 10.6 (MUCH easier in 10.7), so I wanted to give you a quick how-to.
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If you don’t know, Alfred is one of the hottest app launcher applications out there today. If you haven’t checked it out, grab it off the Mac App Store (download link). It makes finding apps and documents extremely simple, and amazingly this app is free! I’ve been using the app for months, and it’s one of those things you can’t live without once you start using it. (If you love Alfred, make sure you support their devs and check out the Alfred Power Pack!)
Prior to the release of QuickCal 2.3 (MAS Link), the developer of Alfred came to us with a great idea – why not do some work to QuickCal that would enable a really slick/streamlined integration directly into Alfred? What an awesome idea! So, with his suggestion and some work between our teams, we think we have a great solution for you.
Here’s how to link these two awesome apps together!
Step 1: Click this link: QuickCal/Alfred Auto-Configuration, and say ‘Oh Yes!’ to Alfred when it asks if you want to import the custom QuickCal search.
Step 2: The next time you launch Alfred, if you’d like to enter a QuickCal entry, just preceed what you’d type in QuickCal normally with the word ‘cal’.
Step 3: Hit enter, and QuickCal window will show up to allow you to confirm all entries are correct. Hit enter, and you’re done!
The next release of QuickCal will support an even MORE streamlined integration, where you will have the option of creating QuickCal events directly from Alfred without the extra confirmation step in QuickCal! This is a bit dangerous for new users (without any feedback in Alfred for what was created), but for our long-time QuickCal users we think this is will be a great addition!
And we know there’s some of you using other app launchers – Christian has written up a nice post on integration into them as well. Feel free to contribute to this post if you use an app launcher not listed.
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It’s been a while since the last release, so wanted to give you a sneak peak at what Christian and I have been working on!
QuickCal 2.3 Sneak Peak from Jim Boutcher on Vimeo.
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QuickCal received some cool European press today… And what happens when you receive cool writeups from two awesome German language websites in one day? (besides regretting that I forgot most of what I learned in 4 years of high school german classes many years ago??)
QuickCal erleichtert das iCal-Leben [apfeltheater.ch]
QuickCal – So macht iCal wieder Spaß! [apfelquak.de]
… That’s right – we’re actively working on localizing QuickCal into German! The first release will focus solely on the event parsing/recognition engine. (Übung nächsten Dienstag 1400?) (Don’t worry – Christian speaks native German, so he’ll help me along.)
Another cool item from the international front – Studio Bison tossed this screencast (of an old version of QC) up on YouTube about a week ago. I think he’s from Japan…
If you want to see a new screencast, check out the video on this page!.. Thanks to Christian Bender for the great work putting this together!
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