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  • Don’t Send iCal Replies

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    I came across a great hint in Mac OS X Hints today. It seems that there’s an easy way to interrupt the process of sending an email reply when accepting iCal invites. As I tend to play around with iCal invites a lot (adding and deleting the same event ad nauseum) — I love this.…

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  • iCal – Exchange Time Zone Fix – Chapter 3

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    I’ve updated the iCal-Invite-Fix script again. This time to allow for adding multiple Exchange servers to the script so that you should only need a single script. The set-up is slightly more complex. As the image above shows there are now only 2 properties, both of which are lists. These lists work together as an…

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  • Importing Mail Message Attachments Into Aperture

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    So I’ve just gotten my new Unibody MacBook and Aperture. Immediately I find myself wanting for a Quick Look > Add to Aperture just like there is for iPhoto. Unfortunately it’s nowhere to be found. Fortunately Aperture is scriptable. Version 1.0 of SaveAttachments2Aperture is now available. It’s currently very simple with little error checking. It…

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  • iCal – Exchange Time Zone Fix – Chapter 2

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    It was a few months ago that I originally wrote the first incarnation of the MailExchange2iCal script. Since then I’ve been in contact with a few users trying to make it work for them and I’ve found a number of peculiarities in the types of email invites sent by Exchange/Outlook. The biggest problem was that…

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  • iCal – Exchange Time Zone Fix – Part 2

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    I’ve come across a problem with the original MailExchange2iCal-TZ-fix script. It seems if the .ics invite was only listed as an attachment or in base64 encoding then the script would fail. I’ve subsequently revised the script to handle this and to more gracefully ask into which calendar you want the event imported. I’ve also fixed…

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  • iCal – Exchange Time Zone Fix

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    As any Mac user who deals with Microsoft Exchange invites will tell you Exchange screws up the time zone information. What this means is that you will likely miss your meetings. Not a good thing. Justin Hartman has recently given you his solution to this problem. I haven’t tested it but in looking at it…

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