Event Maker is an app that creates an iCal event or to do from a selected email in Mail.app.

There are no release notes or instructions provided by the developer.

I got this to work by putting it in my Mail scripts folder (~/Library/Scripts/Applications/Mail), highlighting an email and running it from the Script menu.

It pops up a dialog allowing you to select either an event or a to do:

The subject and contents of the message are copied over into the Title and Notes fields, but the rest you need to fill in yourself.

After the event is created, the app offers you a number of options:

The developer points out that this is “an early release that is missing many features”. He is looking for some user feedback and for an icon for the app. You can contact him by email.

There are various other ways to perform the same task, among them the Mail2iCal and fuhgeddaboutit scripts. The new version of MailTags will also create iCal to dos.

Event Maker is donation-ware and is available from the developer’s web site .ical, mail.app, event, to do, apple mail, feedback

Plugins and helpful apps

Two things were added to the Hawk Wings Plugin and Addon list this week:

1. iVideoMail (a plugin for video clips in Mail.app) found a home in the Added Functionality section.
2. CuteClips (a cheap, extended clipboard) was added to the Miscellaneous (helpful apps) section.

That makes 112 entries.

Backend

Grateful thanks to Josh Kirby, who pointed out that I had broken the categories and archives listings some time ago. They are fixed now.

That is to say, I’ve installed the Extended Live Archive WordPress plugin, which allows you to browse the Hawk Wings archives by date, by category or by tag.

I’ve also added a plugin that allows you to subscribe to the comments on a particular post. I thought it might be useful, for example, to people who contributed to the Entourage developer’s request for feedback and who want to know what other people posted as well.

Of course, you could always subscribe to the Comments RSS feed, and never miss a thing ;-)