John Maisey (it’s John Maisey Day here at Hawk Wings) has also spruced up his applescript for deleting duplicates in iCal.

I’ve just moved to all my calendars to Zimbra’s CalDAV service, and even with every imaginable backup and every care, I ended up with duplicates all over the place.

iCal Dupe Deleter came to the rescue. It is now packaged inside a slick interface that offers more options and control over the deletion process:

It lists the available calendars and offers you the option to test it for duplicates before doing anything drastic.

iCal Dupe Deleter is Leopard-only, although John continues to provide earlier versions of the applescript that work on Tiger along with the new Leopard version on his web site . It is donation-ware.

There are lots of other good scripts there too. ical, duplicates, dupes, caldav, applescript, productivity, appointments, calendars

Jeff Gamet at MacObserver has written a piece on how to make clever use of time zones in iCal.

When correctly set up, the time zones feature in iCal is invaluable for people on the move:

When you switch time zones, your appointments will move in relation to your new location. My [MacObserver] meeting that shows up at 11:00am when I’m at my desk in Colorado jumps to 10:00am when I fly to California – showing me the correct local time for my meeting.

I would use this a lot if I had to travel.ical, tips, time zones, road warrior, travelling, appointments, events, productivity

iCalMaker is an app that allows you to import, export, modify, convert, print out, translate or email your iCal appointments.

An updated version released today contains updated and re-written code and is a universal binary. It will now only run on Mac OS 10.3 or greater.

It also reports problem appointments better and fixes a number of smaller bugfixes.

iCalMaker is shareware (USD 34.95) and is available from the developer’s web site . You can also download a demo version which will only process 5 appointments at a time and starts to nag after a while.appointments, export, ical events, import, print, apple mail, ical, palmdesktop, vcal, universal binary

iCalMaker is a text-based app that allows you to import, export, modify, convert, print out, translate or email (with Apple Mail) your iCal appointments.

It costs money (USD 34.95) but it might be worth it if you manage a lot of appointments, spend a lot of time shunting appointments around in iCal or want to sync your appointments with PalmDesktop.

In fact, the developer suggests so many contexts in which iCalMaker is indispensable, that they follow after the jump.

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