| If you're inviting people to a meeting using iChat, it sends them a pretty straightforward, business-sounding email invitation. However, if you'd prefer iCal's invitation to read something like: "If you have any hopes of keeping your job, you'd better be at the 4:00 p.m. meeting today," you can do it pretty easily. Step ONE. | Go into your Applications folder and Control-click on the iCal application's icon. Choose Show Package Contents from the contextual menu that appears. This brings up a folder named Contents. Look inside that folder and you'll find another folder named Resources. Look inside this folder for a folder named English.lproj, then look inside that folder for a file named iTIP.strings.
| Step TWO. | Open this iTIP.strings in TextEdit (you can also open it in Microsoft Word if you like).
| Step THREE. | As you look through this file, you'll see a line that reads "/* Mail body when sending an invitation to an event (IP 56)." Directly below this line, you'll see the default text that iCal uses when inviting someone to a meeting. This is the text you'll edit. However, iCal customizes part of this invitation with the recipient's name, the time you want your meeting, etc., so don't erase any characters that look like this: "%@"leave those in place and work around them. For example, the default invitation reads "%@ has invited you to the iCal event %@, scheduled for %@ at %@ (%@)." You could change that to "%@ is warning you to get your lazy butt into gear for my meeting about: %@, and if you have any hope of keeping your miserable job, you'd better be there at %@ in the %@." Now you can close the file, save changes, restart iCal, and scare the hell out of your employees.
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