 |
 |
iCal Dock Icon shows JUL 17
|
|
|
|
|
Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2006
Status:
Offline
|
|
My iCal icon in the dock is showing Jul 17.
How do I get the icon to show the current date, as it did when I first started using iCal?
Thanks
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Shimizu, Japan
Status:
Offline
|
|
You have to have iCal running in order to see the correct date in the doc icon.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: brooklyn ny
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by iamdravenman 
You have to have iCal running in order to see the correct date in the doc icon.
you can add ical to your startup items (in accounts, in system preferences).
set it to 'hide', and it will open on startup, but not show it's window.
so..you'll always have the current date in the dock.
|
|
"At first, there was Nothing. Then Nothing inverted itself and became Something.
And that is what you all are: inverted Nothings...with potential" (Sun Ra)
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Mar 1999
Location: Bellevue, WA
Status:
Offline
|
|
Apple removed the feature sadly.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: brooklyn ny
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by Kenneth
Apple removed the feature sadly.
???? 
what feature did they remove?
i do the startup-item trick on my 10.4.8 system, my GF's 10.3.9...
not sure what you mean...
(or are you referring to something else??)
|
|
"At first, there was Nothing. Then Nothing inverted itself and became Something.
And that is what you all are: inverted Nothings...with potential" (Sun Ra)
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: New York, NY
Status:
Offline
|
|
I think he may be referring to how the iCal icon stayed updated even when iCal wasn't running back in the early OS X days.
|
|
Vandelay Industries
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Rochester, NY
Status:
Offline
|
|
iCal used to show the current date after you opened it once and then kept it even when it was quit. But now it reverts back once you quit it.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Dec 2006
Status:
Offline
|
|
That's really lame. Someone should hack it.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Jul 2002
Status:
Offline
|
|
Yeah, so people won't complain about it having the incorrect date once the day changes.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: brooklyn ny
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by Thinine
Yeah, so people won't complain about it having the incorrect date once the day changes.
my post above, repeated:
you can add ical to your startup items (in accounts, in system preferences).
set it to 'hide', and it will open on startup, but not show it's window.
so..you'll always have the current date in the dock.
simple, really..
|
|
"At first, there was Nothing. Then Nothing inverted itself and became Something.
And that is what you all are: inverted Nothings...with potential" (Sun Ra)
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Manchester,UK
Status:
Offline
|
|
I don't think that the fact that it used to keep the date in the dock after you quit was more of a bug that got fixed than a feature that was removed. The incorrect icon was probably sticking and not reverting back to the default one when the app was quit.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Moderator  Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
Status:
Offline
|
|
What he said. iCal kept the last date it had, but I do not think it updated it if the date changed while the app was closed. If it really did that, then I'm very glad that Apple removed the feature. That implies that there was some process going that updated the icon after the app was quit, and that's really sneaky.
Anyway, you can also show the date in the menu bar by the clock using this trick.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Shimizu, Japan
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by fisherKing
you can add ical to your startup items (in accounts, in system preferences).
set it to 'hide', and it will open on startup, but not show it's window.
so..you'll always have the current date in the dock.
So you still have to have it running to have the correct date shown in the Dock.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: brooklyn ny
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by iamdravenman
So you still have to have it running to have the correct date shown in the Dock.
sure, but...
ical, 'open', uses 0% cpu...
and i always show the correct date.
simple, really!
|
|
"At first, there was Nothing. Then Nothing inverted itself and became Something.
And that is what you all are: inverted Nothings...with potential" (Sun Ra)
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2006
Status:
Offline
|
|
Dang,
That kinda sucks!
Maybe they will change this in some future release.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Colorado
Status:
Offline
|
|
It's July 17th because that's the day that OS X and iCal were unveiled.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Manchester, UK
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by buzlink
Dang,
That kinda sucks!
Maybe they will change this in some future release.
For an application to do something (i.e. show the correct date and update as it changes) it needs to be running, not sure how they can get around that!
Ian
|
Computers - Au MacBook 2.4Ghz, iMac 24" 2.8Ghz Core 2 Duo
iPods - 5GB original iPod, 4GB nano - Red, 1GB 2G shuffle - Silver, 4GB 3G Shuffle - Black, 16GB touch, 16GB nano Red, 16GB iPhone 3G.
OSX User Since Public Beta, current OS 10.6.1, iTS UK purchases - 5377 songs.... and growing!
My website - www.idparkinson.co.uk
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Administrator  Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: San Antonio TX USA
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by fisherKing
my post above, repeated:
you can add ical to your startup items (in accounts, in system preferences).
set it to 'hide', and it will open on startup, but not show it's window.
so..you'll always have the current date in the dock.
simple, really..
Doesn't iCal have to be running to give you reminders and alerts anyway? If it uses so little CPU power, I don't see why one wouldn't go this route.
|
Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: brooklyn ny
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by ghporter
Doesn't iCal have to be running to give you reminders and alerts anyway? If it uses so little CPU power, I don't see why one wouldn't go this route.
thank you.
even if you don't use the app, it uses virtually no cpu, and having the correct date all the time in the dock is quite nice...
|
|
"At first, there was Nothing. Then Nothing inverted itself and became Something.
And that is what you all are: inverted Nothings...with potential" (Sun Ra)
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Colorado
Status:
Offline
|
|
It uses around 35Mb of RAM normally.... which can be a lot for an old system.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: brooklyn ny
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by imitchellg5
It uses around 35Mb of RAM normally.... which can be a lot for an old system.
yes, for an old system, say, with 128megs of ram...
for any modern mac, should be fine. 
|
|
"At first, there was Nothing. Then Nothing inverted itself and became Something.
And that is what you all are: inverted Nothings...with potential" (Sun Ra)
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Madison, WI
Status:
Offline
|
|
You guys must have really large dock icons if you can see the *month* in the iCal icon
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: brooklyn ny
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by Macola
You guys must have really large dock icons if you can see the *month* in the iCal icon
if i make the dock it's smallest, i can easily see "21" on the icon...
and i have about 16 icons, on a 12" powerbook...
|
|
"At first, there was Nothing. Then Nothing inverted itself and became Something.
And that is what you all are: inverted Nothings...with potential" (Sun Ra)
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Colorado
Status:
Offline
|
|
I can barely see JUL. The 17 is easy.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Moderator Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
Status:
Offline
|
|
If you don't know what month it is, you should step away from the computer and go lie down until the spiders go away.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: brooklyn ny
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by P
If you don't know what month it is, you should step away from the computer and go lie down until the spiders go away.
|
|
"At first, there was Nothing. Then Nothing inverted itself and became Something.
And that is what you all are: inverted Nothings...with potential" (Sun Ra)
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Madison, WI
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by fisherKing
if i make the dock it's smallest, i can easily see "21" on the icon...
and i have about 16 icons, on a 12" powerbook...
Read what I said, note that *...* is there for emphasis 
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: brooklyn ny
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by Macola
Read what I said, note that *...* is there for emphasis
i also just discovered...if you look at the icon with a very-powerful magnifying glass, you can see the year, a picture of steve holding an ipod, and the release date for Leopard...
happy holidays y'all!
|
|
"At first, there was Nothing. Then Nothing inverted itself and became Something.
And that is what you all are: inverted Nothings...with potential" (Sun Ra)
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2006
Status:
Offline
|
|
I just find it odd not having the date shown somewhere on the desktop.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Any Town, USA
Status:
Offline
|
|
|
(
Last edited by crazyjohnson; Dec 28, 2006 at 04:38 PM.
Reason: Sorry, P already made this suggestion above. Hopefully you all saw it.)
|
|
Change your world and you will change your mind.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: FFM
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by buzlink
I just find it odd not having the date shown somewhere on the desktop.
Just add iCal to your log-in items (starting hidden). Problem solved.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: brooklyn ny
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by TETENAL
Just add iCal to your log-in items (starting hidden). Problem solved.
see third post in this thread (but, yes, good point!)
|
|
"At first, there was Nothing. Then Nothing inverted itself and became Something.
And that is what you all are: inverted Nothings...with potential" (Sun Ra)
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: PDX
Status:
Offline
|
|
If I need to know the date I just click on my clock in the menu bar. I'm too much of a RAM/resource nazi to have apps running that I'm not using, even if the app uses little to no resources.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Rochester, NY
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by ::maroma::
If I need to know the date I just click on my clock in the menu bar. I'm too much of a RAM/resource nazi to have apps running that I'm not using, even if the app uses little to no resources.
Did you read the thread? It was said before that the older version would show the date even when it was quit.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: FFM
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by CheesePuff
It was said before that the older version would show the date even when it was quit.
No it didn't. The older version just didn't reset the date to the default when it quit.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Rochester, NY
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by TETENAL
No it didn't. The older version just didn't reset the date to the default when it quit.
Andd... that's what I said.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Dec 2006
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by fisherKing
if i make the dock it's smallest, i can easily see "21" on the icon...
and i have about 16 icons, on a 12" powerbook...
I can just barely if i make the dock it's smallest, and i'm on a 22" CRT! (1920x1440) The icon is about 2.5 mm tall at smallest Dock size.
This is a new system too, so i only have 33 apps in the dock. Typically more.
Originally Posted by buzlink
I just find it odd not having the date shown somewhere on the desktop.
Too difficult to click the clock? Or press the key for Dashboard?
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Berkeley, CA
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by CheesePuff
Andd... that's what I said.
No, it's not what you said. There's a difference between a process running in the background, constantly updating the date, versus the date not getting reset (and staying that way even if the day changes), as mentioned above.
|
|
"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." -Archimedes
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Jan 2006
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by buzlink
My iCal icon in the dock is showing Jul 17.
How do I get the icon to show the current date, as it did when I first started using iCal?
Thanks
Thats the date the app was created, as others have told you when its running the date is correct.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: ~/
Status:
Offline
|
|
Hey, did you guys ever notice that the iCal icon doesn't show the correct date?
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: brooklyn ny
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by Cadaver
Hey, did you guys ever notice that the iCal icon doesn't show the correct date?
you can add ical to your startup items (in accounts, in system preferences).
set it to 'hide', and it will open on startup, but not show it's window.
so..you'll always have the current date in the dock.
hmmm...getting this deja vu thing... 
|
|
"At first, there was Nothing. Then Nothing inverted itself and became Something.
And that is what you all are: inverted Nothings...with potential" (Sun Ra)
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Forum Regular
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Denmark
Status:
Offline
|
|
Oh noes!!! My iCal does not show the correct date when the Dock is re-launched  What to do 
PS. I know what to do.. 
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 
|
|
|
Forum Rules
|
|
|
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
|
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Top