Sponsoring Lehi High School (UT) Lacrosse

HashBang Industries is happy to announce it sponsoring Lehi High School’s Lacrosse program (located in Utah).

With our sponsorship Lehi Lacrosse was able to get new, matching, reversible practice jerseys.

If you live in Utah you should make sure and make it to one of their games, as they try for the state championships!
You can find out more about them at: http://lehilacrosse.org/

iDeskCal and Mission Control on Lion

You can assign iDeskCal to show in all spaces in Mission Control (on Lion) by opening your Applications folder, and click and drag the iDeskCal icon into your dock.

Then Right click (or Control-Click) on the iDeskCal icon in your dock and go to ‘Options’ and select ‘All Desktops’ under the ‘Assign To’ section.

You can then drag the iDeskCal icon back out of your dock and iDeskCal will now show on all your Mission Control spaces.

iDeskCal 2.6.2 for Mac App Store Approved

iDeskCal 2.6.2 for the Mac App Store has been approved and should start showing up shortly.

iDeskCal Now Available in the Mac App Store

The Mac App Store is live, and so is iDeskCal for the Mac App Store!

Check it out at: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ideskcal/id404116603?mt=12

Don’t forget to leave a rating and a review.

Call for User Testimonies

Love iDeskCal?

We would really appreciate a testimonial if you would be up to it.

If willing you can use the Contact Us form or email it to support [at] hashbangind.com directly.

Thank you all in advance!

iDeskCal Approved for Mac App Store

iDeskCal has officially been approved for the Mac App Store!

Look for it when the Mac App Store is released on January 6th.

Events Not Showing Until iCal is Launched

As some users have noticed, with the recent upgrades to the MobileMe Calendar system, events added/updated via the MobileMe website as well as some other applications (such as BusyCal) are not showing up until iCal is launched.

This unfortunately is not a problem that is limited to iDeskCal, and is instead is occurring at the Mac OS X level and is therefore effecting many calendaring applications.

I have been doing research on the issue and have been in discussions with other Mac developers as well as with Apple, and I thought I would give everyone some information on what is happening, as well as let you in on the current activities to try and remedy this problem.

The reason this is happening is that with CalDav calendars (such as Google calendars, and the new MobileMe calendars, as well as with Exchange calendars), changes made to these types of calendars are not accessed by Apple’s Calendar API’s (Application Programming Interface) until iCal is launched.

The fact that this is happening with BusyCal means that they have implemented their own library for accessing/updating CalDav calendars.
This also means that this will not only happen with iDeskCal, but with all other 3rd party applications that use Apple’s frameworks for accessing calendar information.

Apple’s API’s in question are the official way Apple has told developers to access the calendar data, and have even gone as far to say that applications that do not use this framework for accessing the calendar information can be rejected from the upcoming Mac App Store.

Section 2.29 of the Mac App Store Review Guidelines states:

All that said, this is a defiant flaw in Apple’s framework, for which I have filed a Bug Report, as well as having been talking to Apple’s Mac Application Frameworks Evangelist about.

I am hopeful that Apple will address this issue quickly, however due to a high likelihood that a fix probably won’t end up being released until at least the release of Mac OS X ‘Lion’ (if not later), Justin Williams of Second Gear Software (the developer of the calendaring application ‘Today‘) and myself have decided that we are going to start work on an Open Source CalDav Library for Apple’s Cocoa Framework, which will bypass this flaw in Apple’s framework.

Our hope is that by developing this Open Source Library we will be able to bypass the issue in both ‘iDeskCal‘ and ‘Today‘, as well as offer a simple and free Objective-C library that other Mac OS 3rd party calendar applications can adopt to address this issue in their applications as well, therefore giving you, the Mac user(s) a more streamlined and friendly experience when managing your calendars on the Mac.

I will continue to update you on this issue as more information becomes available.

I am hopeful that due to this issue being so rampant since the Mobile Me calendar update, that Apple will still allow applications implementing this library to be accepted into the Mac App Store. The applications can also still be available on the developers website if they choose, or if there is a problem.

iDeskCal Submitted to the Mac App Store

I thought I would drop a quick note mentioning that iDeskCal has been submitted to the Mac App Store!

So assuming no unforeseen complications iDeskCal will be available in the store on opening day!

Updates as they become available…

Newsprint 1.1 is Now Available and 50% Off!

Newsprint version 1.1 has been Approved and should start showing up in the App Store shortly!

As an extra treat we are offering Newsprint for 50% off for the next week!

So don’t delay and pick up a copy today.

For more information on Newsprint, please visit: NewsprintApp.com

To access Newsprint in the iTunes App Store, please visit: App Store

*On sale from April 21, 2010 until April 28, 2010.
*50% off is $2.99, based on the normal price of $4.99

Newsprint 1.1 Submitted to the App Store

Newsprint v1.1 has been submitted to the App Store!

We will pass along more information as it becomes available.