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		<title>TidBITS: Comments on BusyCal 2 and Free Ebook about Calendar Syncing and Sharing</title>
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		<description>BusyMac has updated their powerful and elegant calendar client BusyCal with numerous new features, and to help explain the concepts underlying calendar syncing and sharing, we’ve published “Take Control of Calendar Syncing and Sharing with BusyCal” as a free ebook. </description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2012 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Comment from Adam Engst]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2012 10:08:56 EDT</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[comments@tidbits.com (Adam Engst)]]></author>
			<description><![CDATA[I think it really depends on whether you rely heavily on the republishing features, Google Calendar publishing (as opposed to subscribing), and the other removed features. If so, then you may want to wait on the upgrade until it's a convenient time to switch, but I wouldn't assume that BusyCal 1.x will continue to work with external services indefinitely - BusyMac has often had to release updates to keep BusyCal functional. So at some point, you'll probably need to switch.<br><br>For us, since we had long ago switched away from BusyCal as a calendar hub (which was a little flaky) in favor of iCloud and Google Calendar as the hub, the upgrade has been entirely positive.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Comment from John Rivard]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2012 06:28:37 EDT</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[comments@tidbits.com (John Rivard)]]></author>
			<description><![CDATA[As an long-time BusyCal user, it is more of a downgrade feature-wise. It requires tediously manually exporting and importing any local calendars that were long ago published to Google. More significantly for me, BusyCal has gone backwards on Exchange/Outlook support. The previous version could display Exchange calendars as read-only, so at least you could see your entire schedule (although a trip to Apple's native iCal/Calendar was required to edit Exchange calendars). Now I have to fire up Calendar to even see my complete schedule for the day. At that point, I might as well just use Calendar. Since Mountain Lion Calendar can sync Google-hosted calendars—which BusyCal 2 requires anyway—BusyCal 2 actually has fewer syncing capabilities than Calendar, so its only advantage now is if you prefer it's UI over Calendar's. <br>The BusyCal crew has said on their forums that Exchange syncing is near the top of their feature list, so I am keeping my fingers crossed.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Comment from Durbrow]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 20:48:11 EDT</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[comments@tidbits.com (Durbrow)]]></author>
			<description><![CDATA[How do old BusyCal users feel about this new upgrade? I am still wondering why I should upgrade. It seems that more was removed than added...]]></description>
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