When working on programs such as iCalMaker (iCal calendar editing software), and PhotoGPSEditor (geotagging photos with latitude and longitude coordinates) you become acutely aware of time and time zones. Working on chemCal (a chemistry concentrations and dilutions calculator for the iPhone/iPod Touch) makes you aware of units… so to be confronted by the following screen when buying a Newcastle to Glasgow train ticket is very confusing

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Over the past year work has continued on iCalMaker.

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As I said in an earlier post the new version of iCalMaker (iCalMaker2) will be able to import date and time data, from tab or comma-delimited files, using custom date and time formats. This will also be applicable to exported data…

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One feature of iCalMaker I use a lot, and so do our users judging by their comments, is the comma/tab import feature.

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Work is progressing on iCalMaker2… one new big change has been to the ‘format’ of the program. This change was made fairly early on, and at the request of the users…

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In Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) (Amazon Link) icons are bigger and bolder, and there is ‘Cover Flow’ in the Finder for navigating through files

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With the data model of the iCalendar data standard (rfc2445) complete the next thing to do was move the old code from iCalMaker over to the new iCalMaker2.

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iCalMaker is being renamed iCalMaker2, updated to work with Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) (Amazon Link), and rewritten to take advantage of the latest features in 10.5, and Xcode 3.0.

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As I said in an earlier post, iCalMaker does not play well with Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) (Amazon Link), and that MMISoftware was working on a fix.

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iCalMaker does not ‘play’ well with Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) (Amazon Link). It works, but some of the features are deliberately disabled.

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