Apple iCal Can Assist Better Than You Think

Posted on April 24, 2008
Filed Under iPhone Tips

While adding an event to your Apple iCal calendar for iPhones, you can do even more than just name it and specify a date and time.

It’s a great personalassistant that reminds you of upcoming events, assists in gathering others for meetings, and regulates the access to the right files at rhe right moment.

iCal has got hidden superpowers, and it’s easy to enable them by simple

double clicking on the event’s name
then clicking the Edit button.

To invite other participants to an iCal event, you need to type their email addresses into the Attendees gap, or you can open Addresses panel by typing Command-Option-a, then drag contacts from the list. After adding the desired contacts and event details, click Send for Apple Mail to deliver the event request. If it is necessary to change event, you can send an update with the repeated information.

There are many options here. For instance, you can assign customized, color-coded categories to track work projects, personal arrangements, and other commitments. You can set up the same events with the repeat menu. To create an event that lasts over one or more days, click the all-day checkbox.

iCal can remind you of your upcoming events through an alarm function, which reminds you of one or more event via pop-up messages or email. When pop-up reminders emerge, you can delay them for one minute or as much as a week. It is possible to schedule the iCal alarm to automatically run a script or access a file on your PC at a specified time.

Attach documents, graphics, pictures, maps, spreadsheets, or whatever to an event and include relevant URLs is also very easy. Finally, you can insert additional text where the Note field is, like a phone number or meeting agenda.

After all editing click Done. All the data event you added will be accessed next time you double click on it.