CaliBrate Changelog

What's new in CaliBrate 1.8.5y

Nov 18, 2014
  • Resigned for Gatekeeper v2/Yosemite

New in CaliBrate 1.8.5 (Nov 15, 2013)

  • Compatibility update for Mavericks.
  • When moving or copying recurring events on 10.9+, excluded dates are no longer retained, due to an OS X bug that hangs Calendar.

New in CaliBrate 1.8.4 (May 7, 2013)

  • When adding an attendee, an email is also added. The first email labeled "work" will be used, then "home", then any email.
  • Fixed: When copying rather than moving events between calendars on Lion or higher, copy now works as intended rather than only moving.

New in CaliBrate 1.8.3 (Sep 25, 2012)

  • Added feature to the "shift event in time" action to set an absolute date.

New in CaliBrate 1.8.2 (Jul 31, 2012)

  • Added feature to the "shift event in time" action to set an absolute year, month, or day.

New in CaliBrate 1.8 (Jul 13, 2012)

  • Code signed for Gatekeeper support on OS X Mountain Lion.
  • References to iCal changed to Calendar when running OS X 10.8+
  • Properly differentiates between event calendars and task calendars (used respectively by Calendars and Reminders in Mountain Lion).
  • Other Mountain Lion compatibility updates.
  • Worked around issues moving events between iCloud calendars (by copying then deleting rather than moving on Lion+).
  • Corrected sound alarms saving with incorrect sound in some circumstances.
  • Updated internal support documentation.

New in CaliBrate 1.7.5 (Jul 9, 2011)

  • Fixed recognition of disabled (unchecked) calendars for the new MobileMe calendars and other CalDAV calendars.
  • Fixed some minor interface glitches.

New in CaliBrate 1.7.4 (Feb 8, 2010)

  • Added search option to search for multiple alarms.
  • When adding alarms, existing alarms can be removed or not removed first optionally.
  • The number of existing alarms is now shown in the alarm edit mode of the event drawer.
  • Clarified alarm edit status on the event drawer.

New in CaliBrate 1.7.3 (Sep 28, 2009)

  • Fixed a bug that affected searching for annual all-day duplicate events.
  • Fixed a grammar error in search options.

New in CaliBrate 1.7.2 (Sep 20, 2009)

  • Added search option to search for empty recurrences, which are corrupt events on Snow Leopard.
  • In actions you can then either delete the event(s) or properly clear or modify these recurrences.
  • If you are experiencing this corruption, MobileMe syncs may fail and you would see frequent sync-related crashes in your system log.
  • If you are not, you should just skip this update.

New in CaliBrate 1.7 (Sep 20, 2009)

  • Another big update that fixes bugs and adds several user feature requests.
  • Re-did Search tab interface again, now using all popups instead of radio selections, cleaner look.
  • Fixed silly bug in 1.6 which disabled range and time preset popups.
  • Added option to search for events with any attendees.
  • Added option to add mail alarms (works on Snow Leopard only, see tool tip).
  • Mail alarms can be added in the event drawer as well (again, Snow Leopard only).
  • Revised limitations info screen accordingly.
  • The duration of events created on the events drawer, including the 'copy' arrows, can be set in settings.
  • Added option to perform an auto-action after an auto-search at launch.
  • Last selected action now saved (and loaded) with search sets (so if you use search sets you may want to resave them).
  • Fixed a glitch involving the slider for shifting events by weeks and days.
  • Fewer alerts shown when the show warnings option is not selected (so you may want to re-enable that for a while).

New in CaliBrate 1.6 (Sep 8, 2009)

  • Updated for Snow Leopard
  • Built as 32/64 bit universal
  • Now requires Leopard (10.5) or later. Version 1.5 still available for Tiger.*
  • Work around major bugs in Snow Leopard iCal 4.0 scripting.
  • Work around significant Snow Leopard changes in parsing strings into dates.
  • Related to above, Magic Hat & dropping text onto dates in event drawer works but not as well before (plan later improvements).
  • Added option to swtich views after actions to force iCal to refresh views.
  • Fixed existing move events bug where original event would not be properly removed after copy.
  • Added option to shift events in time by weeks.
  • Added option to allow shifting all-day events.
  • Added search for alarms (this function may have problems in Snow Leopard due to an iCal 4.0 bug)
  • Re-do Search tab interface.
  • Tidy-up interface alignments on Act tab.

New in CaliBrate 1.5 (Feb 25, 2009)

  • Now possible to search for blank event titles using emptry search criteria for "title begins with:"
  • Added action to replace event titles to with a fixed string.
  • Added action to append event notes to event titles (with adjustable truncation).
  • Fixed issue with properly formatting blank lines in event notes.
  • Fixed issues with search & replace in title and notes which could result in error with Tiger, or erroneously replacing a blank search string.
  • Existing calendar popup on Action tab refreshes from iCal each time that action is selected.

New in CaliBrate 1.4.2 (Sep 16, 2008)

  • Added option to match modification dates rather than event start dates for range matching.

New in CaliBrate 1.4 (Sep 2, 2008)

  • Fixed (major) bug where Act would act upon unselected events if they had been sorted (by clicking column headers) between Search and Act.
  • Fixed (stupid) bug where an error would occur if all calendars are checked in iCal and calendars are then reloaded in CaliBrate.
  • Added ability to create and edit alarms on event drawer.
  • Added ability to search only on unchecked calendars.
  • Added event counts to selected and unselected events on results tab.
  • Added ability to shift events in time by days as well as hours.
  • Added ability to set relative alarms by minutes and days as well as hours.
  • Added option to adjust alarm times for events starting at midnight so that alarms fire at 9 a.m.
  • Added option to always copy events instead of moving them.
  • Above option has the semi-intended side-effect of allowing resetting event time zones to current system defaults.
  • CaliBrate recognizes custom alarm sounds in standard locations (.aiff or .aif only in ~/Library/Sounds/ or /Library/Sounds/)
  • When adding alarms from the Act tab, only alarms of the same type are replaced. Other alarms are no longer removed.
  • Event drawer is now closed when dragging events between selected and unselected lists.
  • Fixed issue where a new calendar could be created with no name if a blank calendar name was entered.
  • Fixed issue where a blank calendar suffix could be entered.
  • Fixed issue were an invalid path for a file or script alarm could be entered if cancelled when selecting.
  • Fixed issue where entering an absolute (rather than relative) alarm time did not get saved.
  • Fixed rare issue where preferences could become corrupted by not allowing saving preferences if they are not fully read initially.
  • Other bug fixes and typo corrections.

New in CaliBrate 1.3 (Jul 23, 2008)

  • CaliBrate was not properly detecting unchecked (disabled) calendars in iCal. Fixed.
  • Added refresh button to refresh checked calendars in iCal.
  • Added ability to save and load up to 9 custom search criteria sets.
  • Added option to load a designated save search criteria set at startup.
  • Added option to set date and time ranges relative to last used preset at startup.
  • Added option to perform auto-search after one minute at startup.
  • Added Settings tab and moved some buttons to it.
  • Added 2 month items to date range presets.
  • Added warnings not to quit iCal while using CaliBrate.
  • Clarified some options by changing titles and tool tips.
  • Handled possible text matching problems by making sure to strip leading and trailing spaces in search fields.
  • Updated built-in info screens for greater clarity and to describe new features.
  • Updated PayPal links for new WBC web site.

New in CaliBrate 1.2.2 (Jun 7, 2008)

  • Fixed "Night Time" time range preset.
  • Minor edits to info documentation.

New in CaliBrate 1.2 (Jun 5, 2008)

  • Added search option for time ranges.
  • Added time range presets.
  • Added more date range presets.
  • Dates in results lists now conform to International system preference settings.
  • Enlarged interface window.
  • Other interface adjustments.

New in CaliBrate 1.1.4 (May 23, 2008)

  • Event results on read-only calendars now added if the option enabled. [fixed]
  • Events on read-only calendars will be copied if any of the "move" actions are chosen.
  • Events on read-only calendars can be duplicated and used as templates for new events in the events drawer.
  • Built on Leopard.

New in CaliBrate 1.1.3 (Mar 28, 2008)

  • Fixed some issues with malformed recurrences on Leopard.
  • Error trapping improved during search.

New in CaliBrate 1.1.2 (Mar 20, 2008)

  • "MATHABS" error on Leopard fixed. (Work around Leopard bug that affected setting sliders to negative values on Act tab.)