Geek Posted February 13, 2012 Posted February 13, 2012 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/ical-debug-menu.jpg" alt="iCal Debug Menu" title="ical-debug-menu" width="620" height="346" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-27184" /></p> <p>iCal has a hidden debug menu with 24 additional options and features that can be accessed with the help of a defaults write command. </p> <ul> <li>Quit out of iCal and then launch the Terminal</li> <li>Enter the following command:</li> <p><code>defaults write com.apple.iCal IncludeDebugMenu 1</code></p> <li>Open iCal again to find the “Debug” menu</li> </ul> <p>Many of the options are only useful for developers, hence the Debug label, but there are a fair amount of tweaks that are potentially useful to the average user as well, particularly these three:</p> <ul> <li>Open multiple iCal Calendar windows with Command+L – probably the most useful option, making it easier to compare dates and schedules on any level</li> <li>Change the number of weeks that appear before and after the start date in Day View</li> <li>Show more than 7 days in a week (7, 14, 21, and 28 days)</li> </ul> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/multiple-ical-windows.jpg" alt="Multiple iCal windows" title="multiple-ical-windows" width="620" height="388" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-27186" /></p> <p>You can hide the debug menu again by relaunching Terminal and entering the following command:</p> <p><code>defaults write com.apple.iCal IncludeDebugMenu 0</code></p> <p>Quitting and reopening iCal will again cause those changes to take effect.</p> <p>Overall the iCal menu is probably not quite as useful as <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/07/safari-debug-menu/">the Safari debug menu</a> but it’s still interesting to take a peak at. Great little trick from <a href="http://www.macgasm.net/2012/02/13/show-days-icals-week-view/">MacGasm</a>, who used it to alter the amount of days shown in a week.</p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/pmmP7EvwlUTWDqtHghfA04a4DH8/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/pmmP7EvwlUTWDqtHghfA04a4DH8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/pmmP7EvwlUTWDqtHghfA04a4DH8/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/pmmP7EvwlUTWDqtHghfA04a4DH8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=SSA8qUkreBk:dC2SGpqMyGg:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=SSA8qUkreBk:dC2SGpqMyGg:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=SSA8qUkreBk:dC2SGpqMyGg:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=SSA8qUkreBk:dC2SGpqMyGg:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=SSA8qUkreBk:dC2SGpqMyGg:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=SSA8qUkreBk:dC2SGpqMyGg:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=SSA8qUkreBk:dC2SGpqMyGg:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4/SSA8qUkreBk" height="1" width="1"/> View the full article
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