iCal calendars, the '&' character, and clickable URLs
I own a company that has an ampersand in our business name. We have our company name in some of the calendars we publish for all employees to use. When copying the URL to the clipboard (or sending the publish email), iCal does not replace the ampersand, so the resulting links do not work. We've found that replacing the ampersand with the proper hex code (%26) will cause them to work fine in links. Although all characters are not allowed, the ones that are can be replaced using the hex codes found on this page.
published today, 2 hours 25 minutes ago, macosxhints
Sapphire for Avid plug-ins reach v3.0
GenArts has published v3.0 of its Sapphire plug-ins for Avid editing systems, specifically Symphony, NewsCutter and Media Composer. The focus of the update is on its 36 new effects, such as TVDamage, which reproduces broadcast artifacts like static and ghosting. Many are divided into specific themes, such as wipe and dissolve transitions, or texture- and Z-buffer-based effects. Some also attemp...
published on Tuesday, the 2. December 2008, macintosh-news-network
Apple Exploring Liquid Notebook Cooling Systems for Cooler Laps
MacNN reports on a newly published Apple patent application which details ongoing research into alternative cooling systems for notebook computers. Specifically, Apple explores the possibility of a liquid cooling system for th...
published on Tuesday, the 2. December 2008, macrumors
Macgamestore adds Book of Legends puzzle game
Macgamestore on Friday released Book of Legends, a puzzle-based adeventure game. The program, developed by Banzai and published by Goggi Games, allows players to follow the main characters -- Charleston Black and Zoe -- as they travel through five different countries to solve puzzles and find hidden objects. The goal is solve a mystery involving Excalibur, the magical sword from Arthurian myth....
published on Friday, the 21. November 2008, macintosh-news-network
Opacity 1.2 update targets iPhone graphics
Like Thought has published a v1.2 update to Opacity, its graphics creation utility. The software is specifically intended to design art for program development, and combines pixel and vector editors with Photoshop-like tools such as filters, layers and transforms. Users can also insert variable items, and tap into resources such as factories and templates....
published on Wednesday, the 19. November 2008, macintosh-news-network
Carriers seen stifling non-iPhone gaming
Cellular carriers are effectively damaging their own business in mobile games by refusing to adopt a more iPhone-like business, a new study by Juniper Research says. Although the total value of the market is set to nearly double in the next five years from $5.4 billion to about $10 billion, game publishers producing Java titles and other typical mobile games are actively quitting their regular in...
published on Tuesday, the 18. November 2008, macintosh-news-network
Apple Seeking to Increase Participation in App Store Ratings?
iPhoneHellas.gr has published a screenshot from the latest iPhone 2.2 Beta 2 which reveals that Apple may be seeking to increase customer participation in reviewing iPhone and iPod Touch Apps. Specifically, the latest firmware ...
published on Tuesday, the 28. October 2008, macrumors
Mac Mini Still Alive? New Model Coming?
MacMiniColo.net, an internet hosting company that has a vested interest in Apple's Mac mini computers, has published a "State of the Mac mini" report in which they claim that they have heard that a new Mac mini is on the way. Specifically, they bel...
published on Thursday, the 23. October 2008, macrumors
Publish non-MobileMe-account protected iCal calendars
Everybody knows that it's possible to publish an iCal calendar to MobileMe. This way, the calendar will be accessible by anybody. It's also possible to protect the calendar with a password. The downside is that you have to give out your MobileMe login info if you want to share this calendar with somebody.This hint explains how to publish a password-protected calendar to MobileMe, using a different login. The first step is to build a password-protected website using iWeb. In the Site tab of the iWeb inspector panel, you can set a name and password for accessing the site. This login can (and should) be a different one than the MobileMe account. Let's name this site SharedCal. You can just add a single template page to the site and then publish it to MobileMe.Now, we have to publish our calendar. These are the steps:Select the calendar you want to publish from the Calendars list in iCal. Let's say that th...
published on Monday, the 20. October 2008, macosxhints
More secure iCal-MobileMe calendar publishing
When you publish iCal calendars to MobileMe, if you just click through the defaults, you will end up putting calendars under your username with filenames like Home.ics and Work.ics. Smart and curious folks will then be able to hunt down your calendars and view them if they know your MobileMe login name (which is often your email name.)There simple way to work around this. When you publish the calendar, there is a field called "Publish calendar as." In that box, change the value of Home or Work to something more secure like "Home38926x334" or "Work-yuck695." No, it isn't SSL password protection, but at least it will be a lot harder for strangers to snoop into your personal information. It probably is still good to note that if you're on public WiFi, snoopers can still see your URL. This is not terribly secure, but I think it might be helpful.
published on Tuesday, the 14. October 2008, macosxhints