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Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Mountain Lion Edition
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Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Mountain Lion Edition

by David Pogue
September 2012
Beginner content levelBeginner
762 pages
29h 25m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Calendar

Calendar is not so different from those “Hunks of the Midwest Police Stations” paper calendars that people leave hanging on the walls for months past their natural life span. In fact, in the extreme makeover of Calendar, it looks more than ever like a physical calendar.

Tip

Calendar’s Dock icon displays today’s date—even when Calendar isn’t running.

But Calendar offers several advantages over paper calendars. For example:

  • It can automate the process of entering repeating events, such as weekly staff meetings or gym workouts.

  • Calendar can give you a gentle nudge (with a sound, a dialog box, or even an email) when an important appointment is approaching.

  • Calendar can share information with Contacts, with Mail, with your iPod/iPad/ iPhone, with other Macs, or with “published” calendars on the Internet. Some of these features require one of those iCloud accounts described in Chapter 10. But Calendar also works fine on a single Mac, even without an Internet connection.

  • Calendar can subscribe to other people’s calendars. For example, you can subscribe to your spouse’s calendar, thereby finding out when you’ve been committed to after-dinner drinks on the night of the big game on TV. You can also tell Calendar to display your online calendars from Google and Yahoo, or even your company’s Exchange calendar (Life with Microsoft Exchange).

Working with Views

When you open Calendar, you see something like Figure 16-2. By clicking one of the View buttons above the calendar, or by pressing ⌘-1, ...

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