Today is 40% off thanks to MUPromo.com (1 Day Only)
To celebrate today’s Phil-note, we are pleased to have a one day sale in partnership with our friends at MUPromo.com. Until 11:59 EST today you can purchase Today for the low-low price of $8.95, a 40% savings.
If one of your new years resolutions was to be more productive and organized, Today is a fantastic application to help you achieve your goals.
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Mac Developer Network members can save 20% on Today!
As a software developer myself, I built Today to help me easily keep track of ship dates, outside meetings and my daily life. With that in mind, I’m happy to announce that all members of the Mac Developer Network can now receive 20% off of Today just for being a member. See the members area on the site for instructions on how to claim this discount.
If you are a Mac OS X or iPhone developer, you should do yourself a favor and join the MDN to gain access to the plethora of knowledge it holds. Who knows. Maybe you will hear me on a future podcast!
Today 1.5: Alarms, Growl, Notifications, Oh My!
After a bit of a delay, we’re pleased to announce that Today 1.5 is now available. Today 1.5 is our biggest update since 1.0 was released back in the spring. We’ve added three of the biggest features that users have requested. The first is support for creating and adding alarms to new events and tasks you create in Today.
The new alarms panel lets you define any variety of predefined alarms. We include a few commonly used types (5 minutes before, 30 minutes before for example). We’ve also added support for showing past-due notifications on any task that has lapsed its due date.
The final feature is for the power-users out there who are as big of fans of the Growl notification framework as me. When you perform a few actions in Today, there will now be notifications posted to Growl to give you an extra visual cue that the operation completed successfully.
Today 1.5 is a free update to all Today users, so please do try it out and let us know what you think.
Today 1.3.2 Released
Today 1.3.1 (and an unfortunate 1.3.2) have been released. The major change is a fix that will resolve an issue with the time change over the weekend not causing the date browser to be off by a day for the next week or so.
Grab the update via Sparkle or at the Today Web site
Today is 20% off through October
We are hard at work in the Second Gear labs building Today 1.5, a major update to our flagship application. It’s taking a bit longer than we imagined, so we decided to do something special for our customers this month.
We’re offering Today for 20% off through the month of October. You can now pick up a license for Today for the all-time low price of $12. If you’ve been itching to purchase Today, there has never been a better time. Even better, if you’re already a Today user and know someone who would also benefit from the app, you can pass on these great savings.
Today is a powerful, easy to use event and task management application for Mac OS X Leopard. Built on top of the same data engine as Apple’s iCal and Mail programs, Today lets you quickly see what events and tasks are on today’s agenda with the click of a button.
Today users should update to 10.5.5
If you are a user of Today, I would highly recommend updating to Mac OS X 10.5.5 as it has many fixes to the CalendarStore framework. CalendarStore powers the database behind Today. The biggest bug that is known to be fixed involves detached, recurring events not being displayed properly. This now looks to be resolved.
You can update to 10.5.5 by going to the Apple menu and selecting “Software Update.”
Today 1.3 Released!
Today 1.3 is now available. The focus of this release was on making the task management features much more powerful based on user feedback. One thing I learned from users is that while viewing a single days worth of events is a great look, many users want to be able to see what tasks they have due several days in advance. You can now do that with Today 1.3. With the influx of more tasks in Today, I went ahead and offered a few sorting options so you can organize your tasks by title, calendar, due date or priority.
In addition to the task enhancements, there are some smaller, but useful navigation and usability enhancements to make working with Today better. If you use a CalDAV this release should also be more friendly.
Today is $15 and has a 10 day trial at the Second Gear Web site. I hope you enjoy the release.
Today Loves MobileMe
I’m sure many of you were also waiting in line today to grab your iPhone 3G. I picked one up this morning and am very pleased with the speed improvements of 3G network and (for the most part) the applications that are available on the AppStore.
The thing I am most excited about, however, is MobileMe. Apple’s .Mac replacement makes it incredibly easy to automatically push email, contact and calendaring information to and from the iPhone without having to rely on syncing. This is a great feature for Today users!
Let me give you an example.
This afternoon at lunch I making plans for a meeting for drinks later in the day with a friend. I entered the information into my iPhone, which was now set up to automatically sync calendaring data with MobileMe. When I got back to my desk an hour later, I popped open Today and the new event was automatically in the list: no sync required on my part.
Thanks to the hardworking MobileMe team at Apple for such a great tool. It’s well worth my $99 a year.
Use Today with Google Calendar
Today was recently reviewed on Mac software site MacApper. As part of the review, we did a giveaway where the entry requirements was to suggest features you’d like to see in Today. By far the biggest request was the ability to use the application with Google Calendar.
This is actually already possible! Spanning Sync is an excellent utility that can automatically sync your Google Calendar data with iCal and Today. Here’s a quick tutorial to show you how.
- In iCal, create calendars with the same names as each calendar you have created in Google Calendar. We will use these to sync data between Google Calendar and iCal.
- Download and install Spanning Sync from their Web site. Spanning Sync is a $25 a year subscription or 1-time $65 payment for a lifetime of updates.
- Launch the Spanning Sync preference pane and authenticate with your Google account. This will enable the sync settings window as you can see below.
- For each Google Calendar you want to sync, match it up with it’s corresponding iCal calendar.
- Set your syncing frequency to every hour.
- Press the Sync button. It may take a while to get all your data synchronized between the two services depending on how long you’ve been using Google Calendar.
- Once everything is synced, what you see in Google Calendar will also be in Today. Any changes you make on Google will also be pushed directly to Today each time Spanning Sync runs.
Spanning Sync is a great application for those that want the power and convenience of Google Calendar, but still want to enjoy some of the luxuries of using iCal and applications like Today. If you have any other tips or tricks on how you’re using Today, please do share them with us!
Today 1.2 Released!
I’m not one to let a month go by without a release, so I’m happy to present you all with Today 1.2. Today 1.2 adds a few features I think everyone will find beneficial.
- Today will now automatically shift the date forward at midnight. This only happens if you haven’t adjusted the date away from the present day.
- You can now edit events and tasks by double-clicking on the item. It will automatically launch in iCal.
- The date browser is enhanced so you can navigate ahead more than just a day at a time. Click on the currently selected date to expose the new date picker.
Beyond the new features, there are several other tweaks and bug fixes that we outline in the release notes.
I can’t tell you how excited I am about the stuff we’ve added in Today 1.2. I gave the folks at TUAW a video demo and interview about the new features in Today 1.2. I can’t stand to watch the video because I have a phobia of hearing my own voice, but hopefully you will find it beneficial.
I hope you enjoy the release.
