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TinyCal

TinyCal - 1.0.1

menubar calendar with google calendar integration

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Version 1.0.1: (5.0)
Selected Version: 1.0.1
Release Date: 2007-11-28
License: Commercial
Downloads (version 1.0.1): 288
Downloads (all versions): 6,351
Price: $10.00

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Product Description:

TinyCal is a menubar calendar with Google Calendar integration. It can show multiple months, use custom calendars, and show holidays and personal calendars. Free version is fully functional with no time limits.

What's new in this version:

  • Wrap event description when necessary
  • Add option to set first day of week
  • Fix small memory leak

Operating System Requirements:

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

  • Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Additional Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.4

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Version 1.0.1:
Overall Rating: (5.0) Features: (4.0) Support: (5.0)
Ease of Use: (5.0) Quality / Stability: (5.0) Price: (5.0)
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TinyCal ReviewTinyCal & TinyAlarm: iCal for slow computers - Version: 1.4.1, 3/22/2009 02:41PM PST

petrologist
My little Mac hasn't the resources to run iCal, and everyone asks me the date. My need is not to schedule reminders (but hour ones to stretch), but quickly check the date and local holidays. TinyCal is a new kind of application, perfectly suited to the 'status menu' to the right of the Desktop's Menu Bar, where it displays a number: the day of the month.

There are many preferences, but mine drops down three months (resembling Unix's old 'cal' format), with the current month in the center, current date circled. Moving the pointer over the tinted dates displays what holiday they are. The interface is a model of elegant simplicity. This allows it to take about 2 MB of chip memory, as opposed to iCal's 15MB, though the disk memory is about the same. This can make a great difference on computers with little memory.

Though I also have Apple's date status running: day of week and time, my computer takes 20 seconds to display the date (it swaps) when I click this. TinyCal drops down its menu instantaneously.

Combined with TinyAlarm, Pixelated Software offers the perfect applications for the status menu. They are in keeping with Unix philosophy: small (interface), simple, each doing one thing extremely well.

If TinyAlarm disappears because the current applications overwrites its icon with its menu bar, just define a 'hotkey' of your choice or click the desktop. ('Finder' takes little space on the menu bar.)

TinyCal and TinyAlarm both greatly enhance MacOSX. Those who can pop-up iCal in a second may not need these, though usually you only need a quick calendar overview and simple alarm clock. iCal doesn't provide these easily.
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TinyCal CommentaryThe country selected for holidays changes - Version: 1.4, 11/27/2008 11:45AM PST

NicolasAllan
I set it to UK holidays.
Some weeks later I check and it is back to the USA - reset back to UK
Some weeks later I check and it is back to the USA - reset back to UK
Some weeks later I check and it is back to the USA - reset back to UK
Some weeks later I check and it is back to the USA - reset back to UK
and so on ....
Nicolas

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TinyCal Usage TipUsage Tip amd Caveat - Version: 1.3.2, 4/5/2008 10:53PM PST

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sprindle1
The usage tip: Configure TinyCal to show two months (or more) in horizontal layout. This way there'll be adequate width at the bottom to show calendar events without truncating.

The caveat: If you're running TinyCal in demo mode and then get a license code, you'll currently be completely flumoxed as to how to enter it. The solution is to log out (or restart), then launch TinyCal and it will be self-evident.
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