iCalFix is an iCal plugin that adds an alarm by default to any iCal event you create.

A new version released a while ago adds some neat new features:

• The last alarm settings you have entered are re-used for bulk settings.
• You can specify message-only alarms by setting the alarm sound in the plist file to an empty string.
• It has fixed a compatibility problem with kGTD (Kinkless GTD).
• Alarm sounds can contain strings so that you can customise them even more.

The plugin requires SIMBL (Smart InputManager Bundle Loader), the same Cocoa application hack that powers the Safari plug-in PithHelmet and iAlert , a Mail.app (and more) notification system. Instructions are included in iCalFix’s readme file.

iCalFix 0.4 — not far away — will be a universal binary and will feature a preference pane of its own.

The developer Robert Blum has also written a piece on The Making of iCalFix which is like James Eagan’s Guide to writing a Mail.app plugin (except that it is about iCal and not really a guide). Good reading.

ICalFix is freeware and is available from Robert’s web site .

alarms, events, kgtd, plugins, productivity, simbl, ical

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