QuickCal has been one of my favorite ways to add items to iCal. It started with a Dashboard widget that let me use natural language to add calendar events. I loved it (actually wrote about it back in '09). Then it became an iOS app, QuickCal Mobile, and I was able to add entries with blazing speed while on-the-go, as well as view all of my upcoming appointments within the app. It currently has a place on my iPhone dock for instant access. Now, QuickCal is a desktop application, available in the Mac App Store, and it has some cool new capabilities. The natural language engine is pretty smart to begin with. You can type things like "Dr. appt 4p" and an event is created for today at 4:00pm titled "Dr. appt." You can also get more verbose, adding locations and start and end times. It does todo items, too. "todo Read More

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Oh my. The App Gods have been busy. Today’s list of notable app updates includes: Normally these would get their own posts and comments, but there are so many of them this time (and all fairly self-explanatory), that I’ve opted to throw them all the screenshots into a vertical column for your pure scrolling pleasure. Instapaper v2.3 IM+ Pro v4.5 Beejive v4.0.2 Amp Music Player v2.3 QuickCal Mobile v1.4.2 Read More

We dig how QuickCal makes entering calendar events into your iCal/iPhone calendars far more friendly and less time-consuming, and now the developer has made QuickCal's iPhone version easier to actually look through. He's added a list view and month view that allow for quicker scanning into future events, so it's now a great entry and review calendar. The app is $0.99 in the iTunes Store. [iTunes via Just Another iPhone Blog] Update: An earlier version of this post used an incorrect screenshot and app link, due to this editor's error. Apologies for any confusion. Read More

...@quickcal: QuickCal Mobile 1.3 is out! Extra UI love. Update away! http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quickcal-mobile/id377663723... Read More

This is but the first of two calendar app updates I’ll be posting in the next ten minutes. QuickCal Mobile ($0.99) is an excellent app for quickly entering event details without having to fiddle with menus and fields — you just type things out and an event will be created with all the details filled in. I complained a little about the appearance of the app in my review, and it just so happens that this newest version sports a newer, more friendly UI. The whole thing looks much more like an iPhone app, instead of a port of a Mac widget. Read More

QuickCal Mobile, which is simply based on the Mac widget of the same name (and by the same developer, @Boutcher), will take whatever text you type and turn it into relevant event information (see the screenshot above). It can take a little bit to get used to, but it ‘s actually much faster and more efficient than filling out location, time, and date fields manually. Syncing Like Calvetica, QuickCal syncs directly with the iPhone ‘s own calendar database. That means that everything is local, unless you set your iPhone calendar to sync with an online service, or you sync with iCal/Outlook through iTunes. I ‘ve got my own iPhone set up to sync with Google over Exchange (details here), which means that all of my local calendar data is instantly pushed to Google servers, so using QuickCal is a lot like having a native Google Calendar app. Scheduling events There is Read More

Calendars ($6.99) is a specialized app that allows you to see your various Google Calendar accounts in one place. It doesn’t support multiple logins, but it can display all of the calendars you’ve subscribed to. My quick walkthrough (shown above) should give you the gist of how the app functions, and I’ve also published a few thoughts on the whole experience after the jump. How convenient! First of all, you can probably ignore all of those App Store reviews about Calendars and how it simply doesn’t work. There was indeed a major problem with the syncing process with the release build, but it has since been fixed, and the app syncs pretty flawlessly with my cloud calendars. The second thing you should know is that this isn’t really a local calendar app. iOS 4 has enabled developers to write directly to the calendar, but this isn’t what Calendars does. Instead, it Read More

By Leanna Lofte, Wednesday, Aug 18, 2010 | How does a high school student use his iPhone to get the job done and what iPhone apps help get him through his day? TiPb’s iPhone at work contest aims to bring you just such slices of the iPhone life. Here’s michaelchang516′s answer and as a small token of thanks we’re sending him a $20 iTunes gift certificate. If you want to see your name up on the TiPb home page and get a gift certificate all your own, head on over to the TiPb iPhone Forum and share your story now! I’m a high school student going into my Junior year in September in Taiwan. I’m also the president of our grade and also a leader at the local youth group. So I use my iPhone along with my Mac to do the tasks I have, and also have fun at the Read More

...Mobile allows you to create calendar events using natural language on your iPhone or iPod Touch - http://bit.ly/ccMC5l (iTunes)... Read More

...Mobile - THE BEST appointment/calendar entry app for iPhones Takes 2 seconds to make an appointment - http://tinyurl.com/26t4nln... Read More