[jtaylr77]

my ical shows Jul 17th everytime until I launch the program and then it jumps to the right date. Anyone know how to fix? My search isn't working for some reason so sorry if this is an old issue. Thanks!

[Chris Grande]

There is nothing wrong with your iCal icon, the iCal dock icon doesn't update until the program has run for the first time.

[entrox]

Just how should the application update its dock icon if it doesn't run? This looks pretty logical to me...

[brutal]

I would have been cool if there was a dockling - or whatever it´s called, that always kept the date right and launched iCal when u pressed it (so you don´t have to keep iCal running just to know what date it is..)

Same for Mail.app. I don´t want to keep the app running, but I´d still like to know when I get mail.

[Developer]

Originally posted by brutal:
Same for Mail.app. I don´t want to keep the app running, but I´d still like to know when I get mail.

Then simply close the Mail window.

[brutal]

heh.

well, it would be EVEN cooler if I didn´t have to launch Mail.app first.

[Chris Grande]

The iCalHelper application that does all the alerts from iCal could probably be programed to update the icon if Apple wanted to. If you open then quit iCal the dock icon will keep the current date until you Logout.

[dfiler]

Originally posted by Chris Grande:
The iCalHelper application that does all the alerts from iCal could probably be programed to update the icon if Apple wanted to. If you open then quit iCal the dock icon will keep the current date until you Logout.

Yep. This would incredibly simple for them to implement.

Infact, Apple should be embarrassed for prominently displaying the wrong date 99.726% of the time.

[ShotgunEd]

Originally posted by Developer:
Then simply close the Mail window.

iCal works like this too. Launch it and close the window and the date will be correct.

[Cadaver]

July 17, 2002 was the release date of the first version of iCal... hence the Jul 17 on the icon.

I have iCal in my startup items, set to hide. Thus, whenever I log in, the iCal icon always displays the correct date (and my .mac-linked iCals will always be properly updated).

[awaspaas]

Originally posted by brutal:
heh.

well, it would be EVEN cooler if I didn´t have to launch Mail.app first.

Put Mail.app in your login items, and check "Hidden" - then you dont have to do ANYTHING!

[MacDog]

Originally posted by brutal:
I don´t want to keep the app running, but I´d still like to know when I get mail.

You can do just that with MailTicker which puts a little email icon in your menu bar that checks your POP email accounts and alerts you when you have new email. It also puts a list of all the new emails listed by sender/subject right in the menubar.

[akuma-x]

I think this might help w/ the iCal icon issue.

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...uery=ical+icon