This is a free maintenance upgrade that addresses some events being duplicated on the wrong day due to the Daylight Savings change over.
This update also addresses To Do list sorting to better match iCal, as well as fixes a couple of memory leaks.

If you already have iDeskCal installed you can upgrade by clicking on the iDeskCal icon in your menu bar (upper right of your screen) and selecting ‘Check for Update’ from the menu.

If you have not downloaded iDeskCal yet we welcome you to try iDeskCal free for 14 days!

You can download iDeskCal by clicking here.

If all that software makes you hungry for even more, take advantage of the “OneFingerDiscount” coupon code, and get 20% off (that’s 1/5 free!).

SOME of the participants include:

• HashBang Industries
• Red Sweater Software
• Centrix.ca
• Calf Trail Software
• Watchmac

AND MANY MORE!

Check out One Finger Discount for a list of all of the participants and quick note about the type(s) of software each company specializes in.

Try them all, buy what you like! It’s almost a steal!

Thanks to some of our users we were able to duplicate this issue, which allowed us to track down the problem.

Unfortunately the issue is not with iDeskCal, but a bug in Apple’s Calendar accessing code in Mac OS 10.5.8.
We have gone as far as to creating a test application to prove this fact, which we will be sharing with Apple.

The problem is that now that Snow Leopard (10.6) has been released we don’t know how fast Apple will be at fixing this issue, if at all.

You can bypass the problem by telling iDeskCal to launch in 32-bit mode, as explained in the previous post.
We will also be releasing an update with some code to specifically tell iDeskCal not to even try and run in 32-bit mode in 10.5, which will make it so you wont have to worry about dealing with the setting yourself.

We highly recommend updating to Snow Leopard (10.6) if you are on an Intel Mac.
You can upgrade to Snow Leopard for $29, and can buy a copy from Apple, your local Apple store, Amazon, and many other places.
Buy Snow Leopard from Apple.com

We highly apologize for the issues and inconvenience that this has caused.

When our company copy showed up we were even happier to find that it was mentioned not only once, but twice in the same months magazine!

The first was what we were expecting, a review of iDeskCal.

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The second mention was smaller, but still nice…
It was in a section they did this month called “Budget Mac”.
The idea was for three Mac users to build their ultimate setup for $300.
iDeskCal showed up in the “Student’s” setup.

We took the liberty to create a little collage of the main items.
For the full text please pick up a copy of the magazine.

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Macworld.com hash posted a writeup of iDeskCal in its “Mac Gems” column.

You can read the article at: http://www.macworld.com/article/141687/2009/07/ideskcal.html

The issue is on news stands for the next two months.

New Features

• Support for Multiple Monitor setups that allow placement location to be a negative number
• When adding a calendar event, setting the start date later then the end date will auto update the end date for you
• Simplified Preferences by removing frequency setting, which helps to make sure old data doesn’t show
• Simplified Preferences by having Moveable/Resizable only occur for a single launch

Bug Fixes

• FIXED: Small glitch in To Do window border causing border to have a gap
• FIXED: Start at Login not working if application is not installed root of Applications folder
• FIXED: Events with Paragraphs/Line Breaks in the title break the look/feel
• FIXED: Recurring events marked with a date value of more than one day, and with a repeat schedule of those days are showing multiple times
• FIXED: To Do items that have a non-standard priority setting, causing crash
• FIXED: Missing some Spanish translations for new features

Known Issues

• Missing some Portuguese translations for new features

Product Page: http://www.hashbangind.com/iDeskCal
Download: Version 2.0.2
Purchase: https://www.hashbangind.com/purchase.php

New Features

• Added a Leopard style status bar image
• When adding a calendar event, setting the start date later then the end date will auto update the end date for you
• If you do not have any calendars selected with To Do items then on startup the To Do window will not auto display
• Allow turning text shadow on/off (only intended for advanced users)
• When a To Do item is too large to fit in the To Do window, the text is truncated with …
• Very basic French localization support

Bug Fixes

• FIXED: Can turn off both the dock icon and the status bar icon therefore making it impossible to access the menus and preferences (Fix allows users currently in this situation to get back into the preferences by enabling the status bar icon if this is detected)
• FIXED: Using the end date calendar when creating a new calendar event will set the start date instead
• FIXED: Events occuring over multiple days only show the first day
• FIXED: Certain fonts show the bottom of letters like ‘y’ with the bottom cut off

Known Issues

• Missing some translations for new features

Even cooler is the fact that iDeskCal is the #8 Top Download on all of apple.com/downloads!

It is ranked up there with iTunes, Safari, and above Google Earth and Firefox on Apple’s site.

iDeskCal has been downloaded (as of this posting) 10,617 times since Tuesday May 19th (less than a week).

An update with some big fixes a couple requested features, and documentation is coming soon.

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