ICal

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

iCal
<tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: center;">Image:ICal2.png iCal 2 under Mac OS X</td></tr><tr><th>Developer:</th><td>Apple Computer</td></tr><tr><th>Latest release:</th><td>2.0.4 (1055) / October 31, 2005</td></tr><tr><th>OS:</th><td>Mac OS X</td></tr>
Use:	Electronic calendar <tr><th>License:</th><td>Proprietary</td></tr>
Website:	www.apple.com/ical/

For information on the Tcl calendar package, see Ical (Unix).

For information on calendar data exchange standard, see iCalendar.

The correct title of this article is iCal. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.

iCal is a personal calendar application made by Apple Computer that runs on the Mac OS X operating system. iCal was the first calendar application to offer support for multiple calendars and the ability to publish/subscribe calendars to WebDAV server.

Originally released as a free download for Mac OS X v10.2 on September 10 2002, with the release of Mac OS X v10.3 it was bundled with the operating system. Version 2 of iCal was released as part of Mac OS X v10.4.

1 Features
2 Trivia
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Features

Keeps track of events and appointments, allows multiple calendar views (such as calendars for "home", "work", and "kids") to quickly identify conflicts and free time.
Is integrated with .Mac, so calendars can be shared over the Internet. You can also share calendars via the WebDAV protocol.
One can subscribe to other calendars so you can keep up with friends and colleagues, and other things such as athletic schedules and television programs.
Allows notification of upcoming events either on screen, by e-mail, SMS, or pager. There is also a third-party Dashboard widget called iCal Events that allows notification of upcoming events using Dashboard.

[edit] Trivia

When iCal is opened, its icon displays the current date. When OS X is booted, the icon displays July 17, which was the date when iCal premiered in 2002 at the Macworld Expo in New York City. July 17 is observed by some Mac users as 'iCal Day.'

[edit] See also

iCal Server
Darwin Calendar Server
SyncML open standard for calendar syncing

[edit] External links

Official Apple page on iCal
- New Software Lets Users Manage Multiple Calendars & Share Calendars Over The Internet - Apple's July 2002 press release introducing iCal
- New Application to Manage & Share Multiple Calendars Now Available for Free Download - Apple's September 2002 press release announcing availability of iCal

iCal Web Calendar Software by Brown Bear Software

Calendar and Scheduling Consortium part of next version of iCal Server (Leopard)
iCal Events widget for Dashboard
iCalShare - A large directory of shared calendars on the web, organized by category (linked from Apple.com). Steve Jobs had mentioned iCalShare by name in his keynote presentation at the January 2003 Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco.
iCalConsult - A new place to share your calendars, as .Mac, for free, with more options.
iCal Exchange - A place to share your calendars, as .Mac, all free.
Portable iCal - Allows you to open iCal as portable application from external drive.
rCalendar a Ruby on Rails implementation of the iCalendar standard by David Andrew Thompson

RFC 2445 Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification (iCalendar)
RFC 2446 iCalendar Transport-Independent Interoperability Protocol (iTIP)
RFC 2447 iCalendar Message-Based Interoperability Protocol (iMIP)

Apple Computer software
OS:	Mac OS X \| Mac OS 9
Consumer:	.Mac \| iLife \| iTunes \| iWork \| Mac OS X
Prosumer:	Final Cut Express \| Logic Express
Pro:	Aperture \| Final Cut Studio \| Logic Pro \| Shake
Bundled:	Front Row \| iChat \| Photo Booth \| QuickTime \| Safari \| TextEdit
Server:	Apple Remote Desktop \| Mac OS X Server \| WebObjects \| Xsan
Discontinued:	AppleWorks \| HyperCard \| MacDraw \| Mac OS \| MacPaint \| MacProject \| MacTerminal \| MacWrite