MenuCalendarClock – iCal Edition 
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Noteworthy Changes in Version 3.1

In order to provide better keyboard navigation and menu shortcuts, MenuCalendarClock now has a regular application menu (and necessarily a dock icon). This enables a more efficient workflow for many common tasks like creating new To Do Items or copying today's date in the clipboard and allows us to more easily add more functionality (like event editing) in the future.

Version History

Notes for Version 3.1.2

 * Fixed bug: Tasks are now correctly sorted by priority, due date, title or calendar, according to the respective preference in iCal. MCC will refelct changes to the sort ordering in iCal after a restart (of MCC). Due to technical reasons, manual sorting is currently not supported.
 * Fixed bug: The Edit menu was unresposive. Fixed.
 * Improved: Saving a task now shows the task list, if it was hidden.
 * New: Full undo support in task inspector panel (better than in iCal)
 
 Notes for Version 3.1.1

 * Fixed bug: Dock icon now shows correct date info.
 * Improved: Added option for hiding the Dock Icon while also loosing keyboard shortcuts (settable in "advanced display preferences")
 * Improved: Dutch localization
 * known issue: All translations except French, German, Spanish, Catalan, Finnish and Dutch are not final and show some English text. Translators (esp. for Japanese) are welcome! If you want to help, contact us at menucalendarclock@objectpark.net!
 
Notes for Version 3.1.0

 * Fixed bug: worked around new iCal AppleScript behaviour to always open iCal on the correct day on double click
 * Fixed bug: URL field in To Do Item editor was non-functional
 * Fixed bug: To Do Item inspector showed wrong times in relative alarms
 * Fixed bug: Removed system beep duing display of some special events
 * Fixed bug: birthday events were not created in the selected calendar when they were already contained in some other calendar
 * New: Better keyboard navigation and shortcuts (save, close, cut, copy, paste) in to do item inspector
 * New: MenuCalendarClock now has a main menu and a dock icon, preparing for new features in the future
 * New: Dock icon shows current day and month
 * Improved: appearance of grayscale menu icon on transparent menu bar
 * Improved: Finnish localization

Notes for Version 3.0.6

 * Fixed bug: display of events sometimes partly obscured in event list
 * Fixed bug: at the end of the month, it could happen that on drawer open the previous month was displayed depening on preferences set
 * Fixed bug: default font and color in menu status item was not correctly highlighted, this now works for the default (black Lucida Grande) font
 
Notes for Version 3.0.5

 * New: MCC now displays a message when run on Mac OS X prior to version 10.5.0 (Leopard)
 * Fixed bug: Keyboard shortcuts with shift-key will now work
 * Fixed bug: MCC can no longer prevent the system to fall into 'soft' sleep mode (since Leopard)
 * Fixed bug: Changes to the calendar (store) could make all events for a day vanish from MenuCalendarClock
 * Completed Catalan localization thanks to J.C. Tasies
 * Completed Spanish localization thanks to J.C. Tasies

Notes for Version 3.0.4

 * New: The task inspector now remembers the recently used calendar
 * Fixed bug: For some users, events appeared in the calendar one day later than they should
 * Fixed bug: Clicking on a date opens wrong date in iCal sometimes
 * Fixed bug: Made shortcuts working again (Mac OS X 10.5 release version broke it)
 * Fixed bug: Task inspector 'due date' handling fixed
 * Fixed bug: Task inspector alarm handling fixed
 * Fixed bug: Automatic closing functionality was broken since Leopard
 * Fixed bug: Popup menus in the Preferences window work again
 * Change: Removed (harmless) console log output
 * Change: The "Check Code" button is now enabled, even if a proper license is already present
 * Completed Polish localization thanks to P. Marczyński
 * Completed Finnish localization thanks to V. Halttunen
 * Completed Dutch localization thanks to P. Bánsági
 
Notes for Version 3.0.2 (withdrawn, do not use this version)

Notes for Version 3.0.1

 * Fixed bug: shifted events in some time zones
 * Fixed bug: double clicks opened wrong day in iCal

Notes for Version 3.0.0 - major new feature, old price!

 * New: rebuild to support Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard) - please use version 2 for older Mac OS X versions
 * NEW: to do items can now be edited (created, modified, checked off) – this feature requires a license bought on October 1st, 2007 or later or an upgrade key (available via the application 'gear' menu)
 * improved keyboard shortcut support
 * improved birthday calendar - please re-select your current birthday calendar from the MenuCalendarClock preferences
 
Known Issues

 * all translations except English, German, Spanish, Catalan, Finnish and Dutch are not final and show some English text. Translators, esp. for Japanese, welcome!
 * a click on event or to do URLs does not open the URL.

Features 

MenuCalendarClock displays a monthly calendar including iCal events and 'to do' items in a drawer when the user clicks an icon located in the menu bar. Double-clicking on a day opens that day in iCal. Address Book birthdays can be merged into an iCal calendar. As a goodie, there is a configurable menu bar clock that can replace the apple clock.

The drawer can be set to automatically close after a given number of seconds.

Installing 

Just drag the MenuCalendarClock application icon to an arbitrary location on your hard disk (typically the Applications folder). If you have an older version of MenuCalendarClock installed and running, make sure to quit this old version prior to installing the new version.

Cost 

Many features are provided free of charge. Some features of MenuCalendarClock require registration available * together with more details * from the application and the Objectpark web site <http://www.objectpark.net/mcc.html>.

Support 

Objectpark provides support for all registered users of MenuCalendarClock. However, Objectpark tries to answer emails sent to menucalendarclock@objectpark.net. Use it also for suggestions and praise!

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Answers to common questions are now given in the application help, available by choosing "help" or pressing the question mark button within the MenuCalendarClock application. Please consult those prior to emailing Objectpark.
 
Feedback

Please send all feedback regarding MenuCalendarClock for iCal to menuCalendarClock@objectpark.net. Please give us up to five working days to respond to your email.