Two ways to share iCal without .Mac
iCal is great. I love the elegant interface, integration with other applications, and most of all, I love how easy it is to publish and share my calenders though .Mac. Unfortunately, paying 60 bucks a year just so I can share my calenders is just not something I can justify. Lucky for cheapskates like myself, there are ways to publish calenders from iCal without paying Apple's exorbitant fees. Amazon recently launched their Jungle Disk online storage service, which offers a WebDAV server, similar to .Mac, at rock bottom prices. One can get 20GB of storage with 2GB of monthly transfer for $3.40 per month. Box.net offers 1GB of online storage with WebDAV for free. Publishing to any WebDAV server is just as simple as publishing to .Mac. Systems Boy has a great tutorial for how to do this on his blog.
Alternately, if you already have web hosting, and don't feel like setting up a new account at Jungle Disk or Box.net, Scalp makes it possible to publish your calenders to any server with FTP, SSH, or SFTP.
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My organization, The Center for Computation and Technology, has been deploying PHPiCalendar (as Mark mentioned) for some time now...even building a small web app to help us manage group calendars (though we're in the process of replacing it with a Meeting Maker (http://www.peoplecube.com/products/meetingmaker/default.cfm)
Though it's not iCal, has anyone had any luck with integrating the two?
Another vote for google calendar. You can subscribe via iCal, and you can have more than one person with edit rights to the calendar
June 16 2006 at 1:20 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyYup, it works with us too :)
June 16 2006 at 12:39 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHow about Google Calendar? It works great with iCal, you can let your friends view it or edit it, and it is from Google so you know it's good. All you need is a Gmail account.
June 15 2006 at 10:32 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWe use the Kerio MailServer - works excellent and you can publish subscribe iCal aswell as share calendars with Entourage and Outlook. At an excellent price too.
I use it every day, and I can recommend it to any workgroup up to 200 users.
Quite good price too...
Dreamhost also offers an incredible bargain for hosting and comes with tons of features including WebDAV which you can configure however you like. I have over 20GBs of space and very nice configurability.. I have been a customer for almost a year and they seem to be an excellent company really operating how you would hope. I have been using it for iCal sharing and anyone I know that wants to do ical sharing I can set them up a webDAV folder on my server in 30 seconds.
June 15 2006 at 4:51 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI actually use Google Calendar in just subscribe to my Calendar using iCal. It make's me far more protable.
June 15 2006 at 4:07 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyKevin: You're right, except S3 itself isn't straight-up WebDAV. Jungle Disk is a WebDAV server that runs locally, using S3's 'object' and 'bucket' model as a backend.
June 15 2006 at 3:52 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply(Shameless plug) Keep an eye out for the upcoming SyncBridge from Infurious. For a lot cheaper than .Mac, you'll be able to keep calendars in sync across unlimited computers, and share your calendar with friends (i.e. give them read and write access).
June 15 2006 at 3:50 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyJungle Disk is not a service offered by Amazon. Rather, Jungle Disk is an application which facilitates the use of Amazon's S3 service which is a WebDav-based hosting solution.
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