Christopher Mackay’s Blog

Apple’s calendar software, iCal, has taken unfortunate steps backwards in Leopar, Mac OS X 10.5, which were not remedied by the 10.5.1 update.

When users of iCal under Mac OS X 10.4.x invite users of 10.5.x to an event, the behaviour is quite different than it used to be. Regardless of the calendar the sender had assigned an event to (e.g. Home, Work, etc.), when inviting a Leopard iCal user, the event arrives as part of the Home calendar.

Worse, it’s impossible to edit the event or its notification/reminder. You can’t change the Calendar to which it belongs, it will have a 15 minute alert — even when the sender chose an hour — and there’s no way to confirm or decline the invite.

Here’s hoping 10.5.2 addresses some of these issues.

Mac OS X 10.4.10’s Mail programme has a very serious flaw, and it’s not one I’ve seen written up anywhere before.

One of the things I have to deal with is multiple email accounts, on different servers. Due to ISP issues, I can only send messages from certain accounts when logged on via different ISPs.

In Apple’s otherwise-excellent Mail programme, switching the account which an already-composed message will be sent from sometimes deletes much of the message. Trying to close the message without saving doesn’t work, because it doesn’t prompt you to save, thereby denying the opportunity to revert to whatever you might have saved before catastrophe struck.

There goes a whole lot of work down the drain. Thanks, Apple.

This story on Slashdot suggests that email addresses used for ameritrade accounts wind up getting spammed. A quick visit to ameritrade.com shows that it’s owned/co-branded TD — Toronto Dominion — AMERITRADE. Have Canadians had similar experiences with online TD accounts? I’ve certainly never heard of any Canadian banks behaving like this…