Busycal Review

Busycal Mac Review
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When the folks at BusyMac showed BusyCal off at Macworld Expo, I was excited to see an iCal replacement. Unfortunately, at the time, it didn’t handle CalDAV and we were using CalDAV at work. So, I didn’t have a use for it. The BusyMac folks do great work and I’ve known John and Dave for years. Now that BusyCal has been released, things have changed for me. I’m not using CalDAV at work (some people are, but some are now using Google Apps for Your Domain). I downloaded BusyCal, installed it, and within about 10 minutes, purchased it!

While on the surface, it looks like just an iCal replacement, it isn’t. It integrates with Google so well, that it simplifies my calendaring tremendously. I have 3 calendars I use for work, and 3 for home. All of the calendars are on Google in 2 separate accounts. I’m not really sure what to say about it, but it is much more pleasant to use than iCal; iCal feels like a dog compared to BusyCal. iCal’s CalDAV syncing (to Google) is problematic and has many quirks. For instance, if I receive an ics file sent to one account that is forwarded to another, iCal won’t let me add it. If I do the same thing with BusyCal, it lets me add the event without problems. In addition, I trust that the BusyMac folks will listen to feedback and make more frequent updates than iCal.

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Pros

Top reasons why people like BusyCal: 1. Smart Filters 2. Great support and development team 3. Integrated To Dos 4. Custom number of days/weeks 5. If you're fine with Apple's free Calendar app, then BusyCal 3.1.5 is interesting just for its long history, but if you need more powerful features, the app is a strong contender for best-in-class.

Excellent syncing with Google.
Ability to add .ics events without strange error messages.
Easier setup for Google syncing than iCal.
Responsive tech support.
Weather icons are a nice touch and saves me from having to watch the weather on the news.
The details for calendar events is much easier to use than iCal.

Cons

It’s not cheap at $40 per copy.
Doesn’t handle CalDAV calendars like iCal does.

Summary

If you use Google for calendaring, this application is a must have. If you have BusySync, it’s only a $10 upgrade, so it is definitely a no brainer. If you don’t have BusySync, but want easy calendaring, I don’t think you’ll regret this purchase. Go grab the trial and give it a whirl. If you’re like me, you’ll be hooked pretty quickly!

Function: iCal Pro.

Developer: BusyMac

Price: $40

Busycal Mac Review

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5. Universal.

Trial: Fully-featured (30 days)

A principled critic must be open-minded and amenable to being persuaded by data.Remembering Oscar Wilde’s admonition that experience is the name we give ourmistakes, I often find myself admitting error. When I first saw a digital photoframe, for example, I thought, “What a silly idea.” Then my wife’s niece gave usone for Christmas, and I realized it was revolutionary: other than for the rareframe that itself is a work of art, I now believe there is no reason to own aconventional photo frame. That is the appropriate preface to my assessment ofBusyCal. When I read about this software, I wondered why anyone would want tobuy a program that appeared to duplicate the functions of the free iCal program,more or less. But then I found myself in a situation where it was important tosync with Google Calendar, and in trying out BusyCal I learned it was superiorin virtually every respect.

The developers encourage users to see BusyCal as “iCal Pro.” It’s a gooddescription for what appears to be an elaboration of BusySync, an earlier piece of software from thesame company that allowed sharing of calendars over a LAN or syncing with GoogleCalendar. It has more features, and offers a high level of control over theinterface, compared with iCal.

Day in BusyCal

When you run BusyCal, you will find it looks almost exactly like iCal. Only anaficionado would be able to spot the differences. Porting your data to BusyCalrequires nothing more than launching it for the first time; additionally, youcan revert to iCal without losing anything except the custom features supportedby BusyCal.

Then you create a new event and instantly BusyCal shows how its designers haveresponded to users. You can edit the event immediately, without furtherkeystrokes, in either a floating window or a separate pane below the to-do liston the right. You also can edit more than the title: tabbing runs through theother fields. The fields that are displayed also can be customized. A user whotruly couldn’t stand iCal’s setup, which unlike its own earlier version requiresa separate command to enter the editing mode, might want to buy BusyCal just forthis convenience.

Event in BusyCal Drivers multifunction gadget with multiple configurations.

In the latest update, BusyCal also allows the setting of a different defaultfont. Earlier versions already allowed customization of fonts, but the newuniversal font setting is terrific. It’s another single feature that mightpersuade some users, who have strong preferences about aesthetics.

As for Google Calendar, the sync works perfectly. It took me under a minute toset up everything. I was skeptical, so I ran multiple tests, checking the syncfunction with Google Calendar, MobileMe, and an iPhone. BusyCal will also syncover Bonjour and with BusyCal itself, on other machines.

There also are some minor features that distinguish BusyCal from iCal. It has anoption for displaying a three-day weather forecast and moon phases. There aresticky-notes and journal entries, and you can insert graphics. Events show whenthey were last edited and by whom; each iteration of a recurring event showswhich one it is in the sequence.

There also are subtle differences. Searches don’t work exactly as they do iniCal; the format is more and less powerful: more powerful because the resultscan be displayed by day, week, month, or list views, and in the last withvarious customization of columns; less powerful because you cannot specifysearches of events versus to-dos, titles versus notes, etc.

Week in iCal

A number of features are advertised, which I did not test. These includepassword protection of calendars. I use another program for to-dos, so I havenot cared if my calendar program does them. A cursory look at BusyCal suggeststhat its to-do function is sophisticated, with dated and undated options andrecurring items. BusyCal, unlike iCal, is not integrated with the remainder ofthe Mac OS X built-in suite. Thanks to the data detector function, iCal capturesevents from Apple Mail seamlessly. The workaround is to continue using thatcapability, because the items that are inserted into iCal appear in BusyCalalmost simultaneously.

There are only minor flaws. There is one glitch, though it might be myimagination. On BusyCal, it seems that events are bit more twitchy than in iCal,so that when you try to move them around they don’t seem to move as smoothly. Italso isn’t possible to drag all-day items downward to convert them into eventsat a specific time, or vice versa.

And there is a tiny discrepancy that may require an adjustment, if you use24-hour time settings, also known as “military time” (e.g., 18:00 for 6:00 PM).In iCal, clicking onto the space that is after noon and entering 9:00 createsthe event at 9:00, meaning 9:00 AM, but in BusyCal, doing that sometimes createsthe event at 21:00 (unless you further type “AM”). For example, say you have a“red-eye” flight from the West Coast to the East Coast, starting at 9:00 PM inSan Francisco and ending at 6:00 AM in Washington, D.C.; when you type 6:00 inthe field, it converts to 18:00; iCal assumes 6:00 is 6:00 AM and assumes youwill type 18:00 for 6:00 PM, which is how devotees of 24-hour time tend to useit in actual practice. The reference times listed on the left side of the mainwindow do not convert to a 24-hour format, but are fixed in a 12-hour format.

Although I am no programmer, playing around with BusyCal I infer that BusyCaland iCal are just the front-end user interfaces for the same databases.That must be why BusyCal works as well as it does, and it’s possible to go backand forth. Both programs are just presenting and allowing the editing of thesame basic files. Even if I’m wrong, it’s conceptually helpful in explaining howthings work.

Since I have a temporary need to track events in two time zones, I’ve just setBusyCal to one, iCal to the other. I’m running both, and with a launcher programit takes about a second to jump between them.

The only concern I would raise about BusyCal is a concern for the developers,not about them. Because it is so much better than iCal, it’s likely that Appleengineers will incorporate its features into their next iteration of their ownapplication. But until then, it’s easy to recommend switching to BusyCal.

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