Best iCal Add-on ever: set a default alarm with iCalFix

The whole point of putting appointments in to a computer calendar is that when I’m sitting in front of it wasting my life away, a little window will pop up fifteen minutes before I have to be somewhere important, like heart surgery, and I can zip over in time to say I’m just fashionably late.

iCal, despite being awesome in many ways, doesn’t seem to understand this. I can put events in all I want, but unless I remember to set an alarm each and every time, it will happily sit there quietly, laughing at me as I miss appointment after appointment. There’s no way to set a default alarm.

…without iCalFix. Which is the best thing ever. This links to an archive page, so it would be good to check to see if there are newer versions of the program when you follow the link.

Thank you Robert Blum. You’ve made it possible for me to use iCal. You rock.