Event Maker 0.2: iCal events from Mail.app
Event Maker is a small app that creates all-day iCal events, appointments or To Dos from a Mail.app message.
An updated version released today features substantial improvements over the first release.
The app will now offer to install a “Quick Launch” applescript in Mail’s Script menu.
The initial screen has also been redesigned and now offers the option of creating a new blank event as well as making one from the selected email:
The way that events are created, modified and displayed in iCal has also been improved with a number of minor tweaks. Among them, the app now brings iCal to the foreground when asked to display the created event.
The developer is putting a lot of work into making this app better, and it shows.
Event Maker is freeware and you can download it from MacUpdate 
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Tags: Apple Mail, applescript, email, event, iCal, mail.app, Productivity
May 1st, 2006 at 3:09 pm
I will not download this until it’s available from somewhere other than MacUpdate. What a shady way to make your software available.
May 1st, 2006 at 4:53 pm
I must be missing something here. Why is it shady?
All the developer is doing is making use of MacUpdates bandwidth. Sounds canny to me, but not “shady”.
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:31 pm
Canny, shady, whatever. I just don’t agree with the idea of exclusive downloads. VT never has done ‘em, and I would be shocked if they ever do.
Taking my bias out of this… When making something available as an exclusive, you are alienating your potential customers (yeah, a lot of people don’t like MU, just like a lot don’t like VT), since you’re basically kissing off exposure from the site(s) you didn’t sign one with. In this case, VT really can’t list the software, and neither can download.com or any of the others. It’s not good business, IMHO. There are plenty of cheap places to get bandwidth (especially for something this small). Developers don’t need to sell their souls like this.