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Filed under: Macintosh, Office, Productivity, Beta

BusyCal is like iCal Pro, and it's now in public beta

BusyCal is a calendar app for OS X, and its developers would like you to think of it as "iCal Pro." It's designed for families and small groups, and includes a handful of syncing features that make collaborating on a calendar a lot easier. BusyCal syncs to Google Calendar, and it syncs to multiple machines over a Bonjour network, which is ideal for a multi-user home or an office.

Design-wise, it's like iCal with a lot of nice usability improvements. It's close enough in terms of layout and features that iCal users shouldn't have any trouble switching, and it imports your iCal calendars automatically when you start it up for the first time. Among many, many other features, BusyCal also does iPhone syncing, multi-user editing, and a customizable list view. If you're already an iCal or Google Calendar user, it's well worth giving BusyCal a shot.

Filed under: Macintosh, Web services, Commercial, Beta

BusyCal brings together calendars and syncing

I'm quite the fan of BusyMac Software's very excellent BusySync application for Mac OS X. It's always been a great (and ridiculously easily ) way to share calendars over your local network using the Mac's built-in zero-config Bonjour technology.

Today at Macworld Expo, the company has announced that an all-new application, BusyCal, is coming later in the year. The application, which is marketed as iCal Pro, promises 'the beauty and simplicity of iCal with the power of BusySync's ... calendar sharing and syncing technology'.

On top of all the regular calendaring that you'd expect, the application will ship with:
  • Bonjour, iPhone & Google Syncing
  • Multi-user editing
  • Calendar permissions and security
  • Offline editing
  • Graphics, icons, themes and sticky notes
  • Weather
  • Rich text
The application, when it ships, will require Mac OS X Leopard and cost $40 per computer. If you already own BusySync, or purchase it before BusyCal ships ($25), you can upgrade to BusyCal for $10.

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