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BusyCal wins Macworld Eddy Award!

Each year Macworld picks the best Mac software products of the year and honors them with Eddy Awards. Last year they picked BusySync, and this year they picked BusyCal!

Here's what Macworld had to say:

"BusyCal looks a lot like iCal. But it does things iCal can only dream of. It seamlessly syncs with Google Calendar out of the box, shares calendars via Bonjour, and supports multi-person editing. BusyCal did more than revive the calendaring category; it established itself as the category leader."

We couldn't have said it better ourselves. We're really honored to be recognized by Macworld for all the hard work that went into BusyCal 1.0. And we're grateful for the encouragement and feedback we've received from our customers. 

Stay tuned. We're not done yet...

BusyCal 1.1

BusyCal 1.1 has been released! We added several features including the commonly requested mini-month navigator, 64-bit and Garbage Collection support on Snow Leopard, three-finger swiping, and more.

Here's a complete list of changes:

• Added mini-month calendar to source list.
• Support for three-finger swiping.
• Added Duration column to List View.
• Added an "at start" alarm interval.
• Support for 64-bit and Garbage Collection on Snow Leopard.
• Admin password no longer required to update Dock icon, except during a software update.
• Support both shift-return and option-return for line feeds.
• Clear stale data in info panel when an event moves out of view.
• Better memory management when syncing with Entourage.
• Better handling of malformed ics files.
• Better date handling when scheduling events with no year.
• Better handling of 4-digit year input.
• Fixed bug affecting recurring events starting prior to 1930
• Hide info panel when app is minimized.
• Fixed preference setting for default calendar app.
• Various recurring event bug fixes.
• Option to display more descriptive time zone names.
• Backups filenames are stored in yyyy-mm-dd format.
• Fixed various Google syncing bugs.
• Fixed crash caused by unicode non-breaking space characters.
• Fixed crash caused by corrupted system font.
• Improved logging.

Existing BusyCal users can update by selecting Check for Updates from the BusyCal menu. New users can download it from http://www.busymac.com/download/BusyCal.dmg