FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

October 24, 2011

Today 2.9 Adds Lion Support, Goes Mac App Store Only.

Carmel, IN — Second Gear is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Today 2.9, the latest version of its popular calendaring application Today. Today makes it easy to get a one day snapshot view of your upcoming events and tasks in a compact window. No iCal required.

Version 2.9 adds support for Apple's new Mac OS X Lion operating system. Today is now a first class Lion citizen supporting sudden termination, improved calendaring support and Apple's new Sandboxing technology for enhanced user security.

Today 2.9 is also an exclusive release for the Mac App Store. Existing customers can update to the Mac App Store version of Today for the transitional price of $9,99 for a limited time. Mac App Store customers will receive Today 3.0 at no additional cost when it is released in the future.

Today 2.9 requires Mac OS X 10.7 or later and can be downloaded from the Mac App Store.

What's new in Today 2.9:

  • Added support for automatic and sudden termination.
  • Adopted Apple's new sandboxing technology.
  • Today now requires Mac OS X Lion.
  • Removed "Add Today To Login Items" preference to comply with sandboxing requirements.
  • Memory footprint should be much smaller.
  • Miscellaneous bug fixes and optimizations.

Today Features:

  • See events and tasks for each day
  • Create new events and tasks directly from the application
  • Filter what events and tasks appear in Today based on their calendar
  • Open an event or task externally in iCal
  • Quick navigation between dates in the past or future
  • Smaller footprint than iCal
  • Synchronizes calendar information from iPhone and iPod touch
  • Synchronizes between multiple Macs using MobileMe
  • Works with Mac OS X Snow Leopard's system-wide CalendarStore

Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) and later

Today Pricing:

$24.95 regularly. $9.99 during Mac App Store transitional period.

LINKS

Today in action: http://www.secondgearsoftware.com/today/img/mainwindow.png

Today information link: http://www.secondgearsoftware.com/today/

Today release notes: http://www.secondgearsoftware.com/today/changelog.php

Purchase link: http://www.secondgearsoftware.com/today/buy.php

Press kit: http://www.secondgearsoftware.com/press/today-press-kit.zip

ABOUT SECOND GEAR

Second Gear is based Carmel, Indiana. Founded in 2006 by Crew Chief Justin Williams, Second Gear focuses on building beautiful Mac and iOS applications for consumers and business. Their first application, PocketTweets, was the most popular Web-based Twitter client for Apple's revolutionary iPhone in 2007.

For more information on Second Gear, please visit: http://www.secondgearsoftware.com/about/.