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Exchange support in iCal

Paul Westbrook | 12 August, 2005 19:57

I launched iCal today, for the first time after upgrading to Mac OS X 10.4, and I noticed something interesting.  There was a notification that was asking me if I wanted to accept a meeting.

We use Exchange at work, and iCal looked at the mailbox in Mail and noticed that one of the messages was a meeting request.  It parsed that and presented this notification.  When I accepted it, it put it in the calendar that I chose and it sent an email to the person who scheduled the meeting.

I then looked at the preference settings for iCal, and I saw that this functionality is optional. 

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2 cool Dashboard Widgets

Paul Westbrook | 12 August, 2005 19:33

Indextop20050412Now that I have upgraded to Mac OS X 10.4, I have started to play with Dashboard Widgets.  I found two very cool widgets

PHPQuickReference
Since I have been doing a lot of php programming, I have been going to php.net to look up functions.  This is a widget that will allow you to look at the function reference and user notes for each function.

JiWire
This widget shows the WiFi networks that your computer can see.  It shows the SSID, Channel, Signal Strength and an icon that indicated if it is secured with a passowrd. 

The other thing that it does is it will show a list of the WiFi Hotspots near a specified address.  The strange thing about this is that it doesn't cache the list of addresses, so if you don't have access to a network, you will not be able to find where you can get network access.

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NeoOffice/J review

Paul Westbrook | 12 August, 2005 11:19

MacDevCenter has posted a review of NeoOffice/J, that really goes into whether it can replace Microsoft Office.

At the end of the review, there is an interview with the lead developer.

[via TUAW]

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