QuickCal 1.6 has been released! A few things in this:
- Ability to set a 5 min reminder on events (previously could only do 15 min minimum)
- New icon (although you rarely see this unless you’re managing dashboard widgets)
- Bugfixes involving case-sensitivity of certain recognition patterns (not anymore)
Thanks to Matt B and Justin for the bugfix/enhancement requests on this one!
1.5 of the Mac OS desktop widget has been released! If you’re a dashboard user, grab your copy now — it’s free!
New in this version is location support, and a much nicer natural language engine.
And for those who are using the iPhone app – the widget also has support for managing todos!
Keep the suggestions coming!
Just a quick note that I’m putting aside work on “QuickCal Mobile” for the iPhone, and spending a few days taking the advanced parsing engine out of that app and getting it into the desktop widget.
Wasn’t totally straight-forward, as the iPhone SDK doesn’t have support for Todo’s (grr), so the advanced engine didn’t have that support. Having to code that back in.
Good news is – once Apple opens up the SDK to allow management of todo’s, most of the work will be done for the iPhone app.
Look for the updated widget in a few days. Latest QuickCal Mobile is also in the App Store review process; a few nice changes coming soon!
Two enhancements made to the “Smart Reminders” portion of this widget:
In previous versions, when creating an all-day event, reminders would be created to alert shortly before the event started. Problem with this, reminders (sometimes with sounds, if sync’d to iPhone) would wake people up shortly before midnight.
1.4 brings a change allowing you to pick a time the day before an all-day event to be notified, as well as optionally being notified on the day of the event as well. Thanks to @spcyfishandwine for the multi-day idea! This works quite well for you work folk, as you can be notified before you leave work for the day, and then again when you arrive the next morning. The notification times can be configured on the reverse side of the widget.
And, what good are all these additional alerts if the only thing the alerts did was pop a message? This version now also supports associating sounds with the alerts you create. If you have custom audio files you’d like to be able to use, ensure they’re in ~/Library/Sounds. (Audio alerts will only be set up on any near-term alerts you have. Any alerts you’ve set up through Smart Reminders that are firing more than a week away, these won’t blast audio at you)
Product page is here – jump over there for download links.
Released version 1.3 of Quickcal – with full Unicode support. Replaced the regular expression parsing, so this was a pretty significant change. Fixed a few bugs folks had sent in as well…
Desktop version is now next on the list. Product page is here, if you want to grab the latest version.
