Filed under: Macworld, Software, MobileMe

BusyMac, makers of the awing BusySync, has meet declared its newest offering: BusyCal. BusySync is a enthusiastic artefact to deal and sync calendars crossways a LAN and sync with Google Calendar. BusyCal is a calendar covering with the BusySync profession tempered in.

The screenshots hit BusyCal hunting rattling iCal-esque (BusyMac’s website modify says to conceive of BusyCal as “iCal Pro”), but with whatever added features:

• Display graphics, icons and themes
• Add sticky notes to your calendar and deal them crossways your network
• Live defy feeds within the calendar
• Rich book support
• Multi-user editing/offline editing
• Sync with the iPhone via iTunes and Mobile Me
• Sync with Google Calendar
• Sync with another Macs on your meshwork with Bonjour

So the fateful discourse is, “Why not meet ingest BusySync or Google’s Calaboration utility?” Because iCal’s To Do lists don’t impact with Google Calendar. Specifically, you can’t create a To Do for a calendar that is ordered to sync with Google Calendar. So if you are same me, that effectuation you hit to reassert removed calendars (often an same calendar) meet to ready a To Do itemize or hit a calendar desegrated with a GTD app.

The example of BusyCal is that you crapper add more clog to your screen calendar without losing hold for MobileMe or Google Calendar or Sync Services.

BusyCal module order OS X 10.5 Leopard and module entry this Spring. Pricing is $40 US, but if you ingest BusySync already or acquire it before BusyCal is released, the raise module be meet $10 US.

BusyMac is at Macworld 2009 and we’ll be trusty to kibosh by the booth and verify a fireman look.

TUAWBusyMac announces BusyCal originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:00:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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