I realise that the developers need to make money so can’t just release new features for free but there also isn’t really very much new in this version – not much that I can get that excited about anyway. £25 for what is essentially a small change in the design of the app and the addition of a travelling time feature and timed to-do’s seems like quite a lot. Bus圜al 3.0 is a great calendar app and still my favourite for the Mac, but I am a little disappointed in the update. Robust support and integration with iCloud, Google Calendar, Office 365 and Exchange, and other CalDAV servicesĮverything essentially works as it did before.It’s now a competitor to Fantastical.Īll of the other features from previous versions of Bus圜al are still there: Menu bar Appīus圜al 3.0 has completely redesigned Menu Bar app which now displays a navigable mini-month calendar with coloured dots and bars that provide a visual density map of your availability. A scrolling list of your events and to dos are displayed in the menu along with a 10-day weather forecast. You can click on an event in the menu bar to view its details, and create new events and to dos using natural language. It probably isn’t something I’ll use much but it’s a nice feature to have. You can even receive alerts when it’s time to leave as traffic conditions change. I’ve yet to try it out properly, but if you enter an event and a location for that event Bus圜al 3.0 can automatically determine your travelling time to that event using the integrated support for Location Services and Apple Maps. The BusyMac support team said they would work on it and now finally Bus圜al 3.0 has it. It’s one that I requested when OS X Mavericks came out back in 2013. These to-do’s will be displayed inline with your calendar events for a particular day but also in the to-do info panel. This means that you can assign times to your to-do’s now not just dates. To-do’s are integrated into your calendar and new in version 3.0 is support for timed to do’s. I did used to have a problem with the info panel resizing itself or hiding itself so hopefully that has been fixed – so far so good, but I’ve only used it for a day or two so far. In fact, now that I come to think of it, I think it was this customisability that won me over from Apple’s Calendar app in the first place.Īpparently the info panel has been completely redesigned as well, but once again I didn’t notice a huge change here. None of that is new though, but the look is a little fresher. You can also customise the number of weeks shown in the month view, the number of days shown in a week view and the hours shown in a day view. You can of course easily switch between this and week views, day views, yearly view and list views. It’s a calendar app after all so it has to display a calendar and there’s only so many ways of doing that.Īs an info-junkie I like to see everything at a glance and the ‘Month view’ is my preferred view. The overall look is a little cleaner and fresher and a little less cluttered, but to be honest it’s not a huge change. You can buy it, upgrade it or download a 30 day free trial from this Bus圜al Download Page. The usual price is $49.99, but the upgrade price for previous owners of Bus圜al 2 was $29 which worked out at just over £25. I didn’t hesitate to update despite the fact that this was a paid update. So a new update to Bus圜al that was released today was quite exciting. Bus圜al and Bus圜ontacts from the people at BusyMac are two of these, along with any Apple software and my coding app of choice Coda. I do like to keep my software up to date where I can and there are a few apps that I look forward to being updated. The last of these is the reason for my post today as Bus圜al been updated to version 3.0 Software Updates
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