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fungifred.com — Tomorrow is the day that the default iCal icon shows the correct date. Celebrate the first ever iCal Day.
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- meski, on 10/12/2007, -55/+8Hey dumbass... I believe it is the 4th "iCal Day"
way to get the idea from someone else's post- tehJR, on 10/12/2007, -20/+10Why all the hostility?
- PJBonoVox, on 10/12/2007, -27/+6"Why all the hostility?"
Because, like Apple, this story is a waste of peoples time. - Scott2, on 10/12/2007, -8/+17"Because, like Apple, this story is a waste of peoples time."
I agree this story is a waste of time (along with a number other stories on digg), but I'll thank you to keep your mouth shut about Apple. - rompom7, on 10/12/2007, -19/+6Scott2: People diss Microsoft all the time, and they are never told to shut up.
Microsoft fanboys diss Apple, and Apple fanboys diss Microsoft.
Get over it, and just because someone says something you don't like about a company you like does not mean should get all agressive.
Besides, we all know digg has a vox populi toward Apple. Microsoft fans like me have learnt to live with it. Express your opinion as you want but you should never flame a user for theirs. (Yes, telling a user to their mouth is flaming). - Scott2, on 10/12/2007, -6/+11@rompom7 -
Call it flaming if you want, but also notice I wasn't dissing anybody. I don't care who he likes or doesn't like, I was simply objecting to his totally unnecessary and irrelevant reference to Apple.
Besides, under your definition of flaming, you flamed me as well. - rompom7, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Scott2: I wasn't flaming your opinion, I was fighting fire with fire.
- Matrixsjd, on 10/12/2007, -25/+9yeah, my iCal icon has said "July17th" since I had my first powerbook back in 2003. So it's not the first.
- fungifred, on 10/12/2007, -18/+26I didn't mean that this was the first time that the date had come around since iCal was released but, I have never heard of it being celebrated or even mentioned before.
- Matrixsjd, on 10/12/2007, -22/+9who says it's a celebration now besides you? what makes this year so special?
- titlesaysitall, on 10/12/2007, -17/+7We're celebrating because iCal shows the correct date for once.
- KissTheRing, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22That sound like a watch I have that's correct exactly 2 times a day
- epheterson, on 10/12/2007, -3/+25a.k.a. Celebrate my birthday :) I love that my birthday is reserved in Mac history! Woo July 17th!
- greyghst168, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15Cool! I never knew my bday was going to be celebrated by so many other people!
- quakeIII, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Happy birthday, but damn this day straight to hell! It's like apple is teasing us that iCal "works." We all know that the next 364 days are also going to be Jul 17 also.
- johnjohnson, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Happy birthday to you (and to me).
Turning 19 today. For the eleventh time ;-) - fungifred, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah, some guy had some faked shots of leopard that had an iCal/AddressBook combo-App and it used my birthday, that was the only thing I really liked about it
- shrapnull, on 10/12/2007, -5/+15seriously, how hard could it possibly be for Apple to make it show the right date even when it's closed? Just add it as a special "dock feature" that when clicked, opens iCal.
- skoles, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7No clue. Drives me nuts.
- AModlin, on 10/12/2007, -8/+7I agree, it'd be very nice to see the date on the dock, but it would probably require more resources than you'd want just to show the date. Then again, Apple could just sell memory for less and that wouldn't be a problem.
- gharding, on 10/12/2007, -11/+1It seems like it used to. I swear, before I upgraded to Tiger, it would show the correct date if i opened and quit it.
- mipadi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It used to retain the date once the application was opened; for some reason, this changed with Tiger.
- StarManta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Adium does this with custom dock icons (by overwriting the dock icon file in the application bundle itself).
- ahhell, on 10/12/2007, -20/+3What the hell is an iCal day?
- Query, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Did you read the article? :P
- davdav, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1I was going to say this too :-)
- hexxus, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10Is it just me or is this is the equivalent saying a broken watch tells the right time twice a day?
- antoniojvr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8In this case: Once a year.
- shitthisfook, on 10/12/2007, -8/+4It's just you.
I found this comment on the blog hilarious:
Derek Says: July 16th, 2006 at 4:57 pm
Finally, this day will be celebrated throughout my whole family for years to come.
Hurray! - iamdravenman, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2Nope. iCal only shows the correct date once a year. Not quite the same, but nice try.
- thrope, on 10/12/2007, -12/+5lame
- PJBonoVox, on 10/12/2007, -8/+4Agreed. Marked as lame.
Is there any way to get an RSS feed with all of technology MINUS Apple stuff? I mean honestly, stuff like this, the story about how Mac users can enjoy full-screen Quicktime video, and all the various other ridiculous Mac news items are just boring. - mipadi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Think diffferent, man.
- PJBonoVox, on 10/12/2007, -8/+4Agreed. Marked as lame.
- mattjvw, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Happy iCal day, everyone!!!
- drbytes, on 10/12/2007, -26/+4Is it me or can't I give a damn? :)
www.richestpersononline.com- keithzd, on 10/12/2007, -13/+4Dugg down for spamming
- wired4u, on 10/12/2007, -12/+27This is just stupid, mod me down I dont care
- shitthisfook, on 10/12/2007, -6/+18Just for that, I'm gonna mod you up!
- naio21, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1Let's create a Firefox-Animated-Icon-When-Loading-A-Page day? :-P
- fungifred, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1heck, it's my story and I modded you up
- bbeahm, on 10/12/2007, -7/+10Most things on the Mac "Just Work" Why cant iCal?
Dear Steve Jobs,
For 10.5 can iCal "Just Work"?
Thanks- korteenea, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wouldn't that just be "insanely great!?" :-P
- r0ck3tm4nn, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Oh man. So I a get my first mac a few weeks ago and the iCal date has been driving me nuts ever since. Why July 17th? Whats so important on July 17th?! I keep clicking on it thinking it's trying to remind me of something on that day...but no. It's just there for no reason.
- MikeOSX, on 10/12/2007, -9/+0Have you read the article...or any of the comments for that matter?
- Query, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11July 17th, 2002, was the date iCal was released by Apple at Macworld.
- MikeOSX, on 10/12/2007, -9/+0Have you read the article...or any of the comments for that matter?
- keithzd, on 10/12/2007, -9/+0Happy iCal Day!!!
Has anyone ever thought that maybe July 17th is a very important day to someone at Apple and that's why we look at it all the time. Maybe it's Lisa's Brithday, or the day that Jobs and Waz mdae their first working gaget- MikeOSX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Its the day iCal was revealed to the public!
- keithzd, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0if that's true, it's not all that great. it would be cooler if it was some seceret date that only the designers knew about while all of us Mac users create rumors about what it could be
- MikeOSX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I forgot which podcast I was listening to, but the person being interviewed was asked what the date meant, and he stated that it was the day ical was revealed to the public.
- 5555, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12This is retarded. No digg. But it does bring up a good point - that iCal icon SHOULD show the right date if it's going to show any date at all.
- n3il89, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12If only iCal day is as good as Festivus
- jeffclark, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8iCal day? Seriously?
The things people do for blog traffic... - grrreat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9If you really care, include iCal in your startup items and have it hide automatically
- "Hide" feature of the Accounts System Preferences... "Login items."
This way you can always have iCal running in the background and have it show the current date.- MikeOSX, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1good tip, though it will eat up some ram
- titlesaysitall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah a whole 10 megabytes.
- fungifred, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1since I just got 2 gigs of ram, I am going to have to do this
- Salvo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The iCal Alarm Scheduler starts at Login by default, why can this change the iCal Icon too?
It has to monitor the date and time anyway.
- Drakeguild, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I am an avid Mac user and love my Macs...but that is just dumb.
- SenorPez, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3This is the dumbest story ever to get frontpaged.
- astrosmash, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7You must be new around here.
- Scott2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Not even close - The dumbest one ever had to do with Paris Hilton changing her hair color. I searched for it, but its too old.
- fudgebrown, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3happy iCal day everyone!
- fluidfoundation, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3GAY.
But I love iCal. - Hellblazer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Anything that ticks off Windows users (apart from the daily use of that thing they call an operating system) is fine by me!
happy iCal day one and all! ;)- fungifred, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4that's the spirit
- vprice509, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Apple good. Lame story bad.
- dareal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0No doubt !
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