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MagiCal

MagiCal - 1.0.7

tear-off menu bar calendar & clock replacement

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Version 1.0.7: Not rated (0.0)
Selected Version: 1.0.7
Release Date: 2007-02-25
License: Freeware
Downloads (version 1.0.7): 375
Downloads (all versions): 25,292
Price: Free

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Product Description:

MagiCal is a FREE menu-based clock and calendar. It features a huge range of configuration options for how the time and date are displayed, and can operate either in addition to, or instead of, the built in system menu clock. In addition to this, MagiCal features a handy drop-down calendar that can be torn off and placed anywhere on screen.

What's new in this version:

  • You can now click on the month or year in the drop-down calendar to jump directly to the desired date.
  • Time format now supports display of am/pm as A.M./P.M. - simply type A.M. in the desired position in the time format string to use this option.
  • Time format now supports display of 24hr times without a leading zero by using "2" as the hour format.
  • Added option to display time in the menu tool tip.
  • Changes to the time and date in the system preferences are now immediately reflected by the MagiCal menu and tear-off calendars.
  • Added "Open Date & Time..." option to menu.
  • Added Danish localisation. Thanks go to Michael Kristensen for the translation.
  • Added Brazilian-Portuguese localisation. Thanks go to Ed Lamblet for the translation.
  • Corrected some omissions in the Spanish localisation.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.3.9
  • Mac OS X 10.3

Additional Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.3 or higher

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MagiCal Troubleshooting ReportNot ready for Snow Leopard - Version: 1.1r2, 11/18/2009 10:34AM PST

MacHound
MagiCal 1.1r2 misbehaves on my two Mac Minis running 10.6.2. Clicking the little (i) in the lower right corner does not bring up any drop down menu.

I looked in my Console log on both Mac Minis. I see numerous repeated warnings for Magical stating, "*** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0xc064df90 of class NSImage autoreleased with no pool in place -- just leaking." Six such warnings happen happen every second! Maybe that's why Magical is using over 1% of my CPU cycles. Quitting and relaunching Magical eliminates the Console log messages temporarily, and CPU usage drops back down to 0.4% for a while. However RAM usage gradually climbs upward at 1/10th of a MB every few second, then Console warnings resume and CPU usage gradually climbs back above 1.

This looks and smells like a memory leak. It's reminiscent of MagiCal's instability in the early days of OS 10.5.

I conclude MagiCal is not ready for Snow Leopard. I removed MagiCal from my Snow Leopard machines until this issue is fixed. I'll check out iStat Menus as an alternative -- thanks to PlainTiger for the tip.
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MagiCal Commentaryi have a better idea: - Version: 1.1r2, 11/4/2009 06:15PM PST

plaintiger

this looks like a nice enough app, but if you want all the functionality of MagiCal, plus the option (but not the requirement) to show CPU usage, memory usage, hard drive usage, hard drive activity, network usage, network activity, and a temperature gauge for each CPU in your machine, all in your menu bar, all in a prettier and more configurable package than MagiCal's, and all for free, you owe it to yourself to check out iStat Menus. it may be more than you want/need (i actually only use the network activity and bandwidth indicators and the clock/calendar myself), but even if you only use the clock/calendar, i bet you'll be more impressed with it than you are with MagiCal.

i'm not affiliated in any way with...uh...whoever makes iStat Menus...i'm just a really happy user.

whichever one you settle on, enjoy... :)

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MagiCal ReviewThanks - Version: 1.1r2, 10/6/2009 11:50PM PST

tommin
Does what is stated, what more can one ask for, thank you.
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