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Dallas Brown replied on May 28, 2009 22:42 to the question "iDeskCal-Latest (interesting)" in HashBang Industries:

iDeskCal actually doesn't have anything to do with Aperture.

iDeskCal will show you the contents of your iCal calendars on your desktop for easy and quick viewing (and more).

Feel free to try it out as there is a free trial.

Dallas Brown replied on May 28, 2009 04:34 to the question "add events" in HashBang Industries:

iDeskCal uses the native iCal data, so as soon as you add an item in iDeskCal it should show up in iCal.
Is the calendar you are adding an item to a CalDav or Subscription calendar by any chance?
If so, it might be that your CalDav or Subscription does not allow for adding items.
Can you add an item to that same calendar from within iCal?

iCal to iDeskCal synchronizes depending on your selection within the iDeskCal Preferences.
(See attached image)
You can also force an immediate update by selecting 'Refresh Now' from the menu.

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Dallas Brown replied on May 28, 2009 04:30 to the question "Select Font and Colors work curiously" in HashBang Industries:

I believe the issue you are referring to is an issue we are currently working through with the fact that there are so many different types of fonts and there is not a standard for fonts.

What I mean by this is if you select a font like Helvetica, you will see there are several options to select from, "Regular", and "Bold" mainly.
Other fonts may not have a Bold version or Only have a Bold version, or there are other versions of the font but the user does not have them installed.

The reason To Do items might show differently is if you choose a font like this.
With To Do items we try and make the font Bold if the to do is marked as high priority. Well if the font doesn't have a Bold version then instead of crashing it defaults back to a default font.

We are working on a new way to display this information in the next upcoming maintenance release which will fix this issue.

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Dallas Brown replied on May 27, 2009 10:59 to the problem "Text only displays in grey." in HashBang Industries:

2.0.1.1 has been released. We apologize for the inconvenience

Dallas Brown replied on May 27, 2009 10:38 to the problem "Text only displays in grey." in HashBang Industries:

We are working on a fix. It should be out shortly. Sorry about this.

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Dallas Brown replied on May 27, 2009 10:34 to the idea "Quick link directly into iCal from iDeskCal" in HashBang Industries:

This is something that we our self wanted to implement, however because of the nature of how the program works it is not possible.

The reason for this is that the calendar sits at a special level that is below your clickable desktop, but above your wallpaper.
This is what makes it possible to place icons on top of iDeskCal, and what makes your clicks work the same as the rest of the desktop.

To be able to implement this we would have to remove this functionality and make it more like a normal application.

Therefore, as of right now we are not working on this, but we are still looking into possible ways of doing it, or possibly an elegant way to allow users who wish to give up the integrated desktop functionality to have this.

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Dallas Brown replied on May 25, 2009 23:52 to the question "can I print a Hasgbang screen sitting on my desktop?" in HashBang Industries:

Joseph, I do not believe it is possible to print your desktop, at least without the use of some 3rd party software. It would be possible to take a screenshot of your desktop or just iDeskCal and then print that.

Dallas Brown asked a question in Postbox, Inc. on May 24, 2009 01:17:

Message Folding Woes

Is there anyway to change how the message "folding" works?

For example I sell software and I get support emails from different people, but since they are about the same software the mail Subjects tend to be the same. The way it currently works all those are getting folded together, even though they are no no way really related.

It should only fold messages if perhaps it finds the same body within 2 messages or some other way.

Can I change it at least only to sort off of the person and subject? That way messages from the same person with the same subject get folded, but a message from someone else with the same subject does not.

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Dallas Brown replied on May 22, 2009 09:07 to the question "Access to preferences?" in HashBang Industries:

Currently the only way to access the preferences is by the menu bar icon, or by having it in your dock.

We are working on an update to make sure users don't get in the situation you are in, where you can't access anything.
We apologize for this oversight.

The fastest way to fix this will be to delete the file:
~/Library/Preferences/com.hashbangind.ideskcal.plist

So you would double click on your Macintosh HD icon on your desktop, then you should see your home folder in the left hand side bar under Places.
For example in my case it is called 'dallas'.
Another way to get to this folder is after clicking on Macintosh HD, hold down the Command key (⌘) and the 'Shift' key, and while pressing them, press the 'G' key.
This will give you a 'Go to the folder' box.
Simply replace the contents of that field with: ~/
and press Enter.

Once in your home folder, double click on the folder Library.
Then double click on the folder Preferences.

From within the Preferences' folder, find the item named: com.hashbangind.ideskcal.plist
Once you find it, drag it to your trash.

Now when you restart iDeskCal you should be able to access the menus again.

Thank you

Dallas Brown replied on May 21, 2009 12:40 to the question "Nice program, but displays calendar entries twice. Any suggestions?" in HashBang Industries:

Paul, I am sorry you are having problems.
Is there any way you could take a screen shot, so I can see exactly what is happening? (You can quickly take a screen shot by pressing: Command-Shift-3)
Thanks.

Dallas Brown replied on May 20, 2009 11:20 to the question "Add Event date issues" in HashBang Industries:

Thank you for bring these to our attention.
We apologize that these slipped through the beta testing.
We will make sure and fix them for the upcoming maintenance release.

Thanks again.

Dallas Brown replied on February 04, 2009 20:16 to the problem "Invalid report of SSL certificate revoked" in Postbox, Inc.:

Nope... It doesn't place an entry for the certificate, so there is no way to view it.
I have found that if I turn off OCSP verification then it works.
I have tripple checked that the certificate has not expired or been revoked and the OCSP verification in FireFox does not fail.

Dallas Brown reported a problem in Postbox, Inc. on February 04, 2009 16:34:

Invalid report of SSL certificate revoked

Reports that SSL certificate has been revoked, even though it has not and the certificate is working fine