tailieunhanh - iCal

. iCal In many ways, iCal is not so different from those "Hunks of the Midwest Police Stations" paper calendars people leave hanging on the walls for months past their natural lifespan | . iCal In many ways iCal is not so different from those Hunks of the Midwest Police Stations paper calendars people leave hanging on the walls for months past their natural lifespan. But iCal offers several advantages over paper calendars. For example Itcan automate the process of entering repeating events such as weekly staff meetings or gym workout dates. iCal can give you a gentle nudge with a sound a dialog box or even an email when an important appointment is approaching. iCal can share information with your Address Book program with Mail with your iPod or iPhone with other Macs with published calendars on the Internet or with a Palm organizer. Some of these features require one of those .Mac accounts described in Chapter 18 and some require iSync Chapter 6 . But iCal also works fine on a single Mac even without an Internet connection. iCal can subscribe to other people s calendars. For example you can subscribe to your spouse s calendar thereby finding out when you ve been committed to afterdinner drinks on the night of the big game on TV. Tip iCal s Dock icon now displays today s date even when iCal isn t running. That s reason enough to upgrade to Leopard right there n est-ce pas . Working with Views When you open iCal you see something like Figure 10-4. By clicking one of the View buttons above the calendar you can switch among these views Day shows the appointments for a single day in the main calendar area broken down by time slot. If you choose iCal Preferences you can specify what hours constitute a workday. This is ideal both for those annoying power-life people who get up at 5 . for two hours of calisthenics and the more reasonable people who sleep until 11 . Tip iCal provides a quick way to get to the current day s date choose View Go to Today or press -T. Figure 10-4. In iCal the miniature navigation calendar lower left provides an overview of adjacent months. You can jump to a different week or day by clicking the and buttons and