![]() ![]() ![]() Bus圜al 2 drops support for Apple’s deprecated Sync Services system framework, so it no longer synchronizes with iOS devices via iTunes.īus圜al adds a new Quick Entry companion app that lives in your menu bar so that it’s always available it provides a small window with today’s weather, upcoming events, and a text-entry field that accepts natural-language event details such as “Dinner with Dori next Tues at 6.” Pressing Return creates the event (or To Do) in Bus圜al and opens the item’s Info window for further details. Google Calendar doesn’t support syncing of To Dos. No iOS version of Bus圜al exists, but any changes you make in any iOS calendar or task-management app (including the company’s own BusyToDo) that sync to iCloud will automatically sync to Bus圜al. Show Me, Tell Me Clearly: The new menu-bar app shows you today’s weather, lists upcoming event details, and lets you enter new events in natural language. Entries you make in Bus圜al are immediately pushed to the CalDAV server. Bus圜al continues to boast superior features over Apple’s programs for event and task creation and management, especially those that repeat. Unlike Apple’s Calendar, which split tasks (called “To Dos” in Bus圜al) into the new Reminders app, Bus圜al integrates events and To Dos into one program. The most common CalDAV services are iCloud and Google Calendar, but Bus圜al works with many other CalDAV implementations the program can also synchronize directly with other copies of Bus圜al on a LAN. Notification Center, synchronizing and sharing calendars between two or more people using the standard CalDAV protocol. Syncing and sharing events and tasksīus圜al 2 requires Mountain Lion (although it still supports Bus圜al 1.6 clients running on previous versions of OS X). And if your organization is dependent on Microsoft Exchange, Bus圜al is not, for now, an appropriate choice. Sporting a face-lift and a slew of welcome new features,īus圜al 2 will be a worthwhile upgrade for most users, but will require workflow changes for some people. Many individuals and workgroups who need to share calendars turn to BusyMac’s Bus圜al. If you rely on your calendar app to keep yourself focused and productive, you’ll quickly run into the limitations of Apple’sĬalendar (known before its Mountain Lion incarnation as iCal). ![]()
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