Comments on: Attach files to iCal events http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2006%2F04%2F22%2Fattach-files-to-ical-events%2F%23comment-&seed_title=Attach+files+to+iCal+events bioneural.net is for stuff worth sharing: commentary by Bruce McKenzie. Major topics covered are gadgets, informatics, Internet, Mac, mobile, musings, New Zealand, photography, Project Koru, quicklinks, rant, rave, travel and Windows Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:05:02 +0000 By: Bruce http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2006%2F04%2F22%2Fattach-files-to-ical-events%2F%23comment-689&seed_title=Attach+files+to+iCal+events#comment-689 Bruce Tue, 25 Apr 2006 19:47:28 +0000 http://www.bioneural.net/2006/04/22/attach-files-to-ical-events/#comment-689 Rob, I use Outlook on my PC and used to use Entourage (part of Office for Mac) before settling on Mail. I agree MS software has some good features and I guess features are what sell products in a business environment. I prefer the simplicity and elegance of Mail and iCal. It's not a question of form over function: I guess Apple are more concerned with a limited feature set to satisfy most users, and concentrate on doing that well. People I know who are less technically adept can get the things they need doing done in Apple apps with less misery than they can in MS equivalents. Maybe the key to meeting specific user requirements is to use plugins and/or scripts, and there are plenty of those. For example, I recently started using <a href="http://www.indev.ca/MailTags.html" rel="nofollow">MailTags</a>. It does a nice job of integrating iCal and Mail in a very Apple-esqe way. Rob,

I use Outlook on my PC and used to use Entourage (part of Office for Mac) before settling on Mail. I agree MS software has some good features and I guess features are what sell products in a business environment. I prefer the simplicity and elegance of Mail and iCal. It's not a question of form over function: I guess Apple are more concerned with a limited feature set to satisfy most users, and concentrate on doing that well. People I know who are less technically adept can get the things they need doing done in Apple apps with less misery than they can in MS equivalents.

Maybe the key to meeting specific user requirements is to use plugins and/or scripts, and there are plenty of those. For example, I recently started using MailTags. It does a nice job of integrating iCal and Mail in a very Apple-esqe way.

]]> By: Rob http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2006%2F04%2F22%2Fattach-files-to-ical-events%2F%23comment-683&seed_title=Attach+files+to+iCal+events#comment-683 Rob Tue, 25 Apr 2006 19:22:05 +0000 http://www.bioneural.net/2006/04/22/attach-files-to-ical-events/#comment-683 Having been a fairly recent Switcher (about 4 years now in Appleville), I'm very accustomed to MS software. And I have to say that Outlook has its strengths and weaknesses, as does iCal/Mail. I think this gives me the unique position not to fall prey to the cult of either computing platform. In my opinion, if I could combine the best of both worlds, you'd have a perfect PIM. Having been a fairly recent Switcher (about 4 years now in Appleville), I'm very accustomed to MS software. And I have to say that Outlook has its strengths and weaknesses, as does iCal/Mail. I think this gives me the unique position not to fall prey to the cult of either computing platform.

In my opinion, if I could combine the best of both worlds, you'd have a perfect PIM.

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