No control over Alarm Snooze in Mountain Lion 10.8
Wait! If you are like me and you’ve bought into the iCal and To Do’s in Mac OS X, be warned that there is only ONE 15 minute SNOOZE option in Alarms. Apple has brought over the alarm routines from iOS, where you can only really acknowledge an alarm event.
There never really was much finesse in Alarm controls in iCal. The pre-mountain lion standard snooze; 5 min, 15 min, 30 min, 1 hour, 2 hour, 1 day and 2 day, are now gone. In Apple’s latest OS 10.8, you have only one 15 minute snooze.
So that kills the idea of a $19 upgrade deal. You will need to spend $49 on BusyCal or $200 on Microsoft Office (Outlook) to get any decent functionality.
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This is probably one of the most ill-considered oversights for an ‘upgrade’ that I can remember. Idiotic decisions like this really make me wonder why I switched over to Mac when I thought Apple were about less fiddly crap and getting on with the business – not dumbing down to the point of being unusable.
Fortunately for me, I was able to test the upgrade before committing to it on my main Macs.
I have been testing BusyCal ($49) as a replacement calendar. So far it seems to have all of the things missing in Mountain Lion’s Calendar app (formerly iCal).
Yes, that drove us crazy too, so we wrote a menubar app to have control over snoozing the Apple Calendar alerts. Check out “SnoozeMaster” on the App Store. Hope everyone likes it?