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How to: Share iCal calendars without MobileMe

This how-to over at Gearz.de will help you share your iCal calendar around even if you don't have a subscription to Apple's online MobileMe service (a very forgivable offense, especially since its expected replacement iCloud service is now just a week away). Unfortunately, the writeup is a little technical, as you'll need to actually configure your local web server to share out and broadcast the calendar to anyone who needs to read it. That means you'll need to do a little console typing and config file editing, but as long as you follow directions, it should work just fine.

A simpler solution might be to use an app like BusyCal to do the syncing for you, or even just use a service that's already in the cloud, like Google Calendar (which is what I actually do). But if you're already tied to iCal, either because you've got a calendar on there or just because you like the app, following those steps should help you get sharing to anyone up and running.



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James Cotton

You can still use iCal as an interface for Google Calendar. It works just fine. You go into Preferences -> Accounts and add Google Calendar as a CalDav account. The server address you use is: www.google.com and the server path is: /calendar/dav/your@emailaddress.com

June 01 2011 at 8:41 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Kieren

I sync Gmail to my personal calendar on my work MS Outlook (Win XP machine) since that is the computer I use most.
From there, iCal syncs to Gmail. Also sync the iPhone to the Gmail calendar.

It was was easy to set up and gives me good access to my calendars.

June 01 2011 at 7:04 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Marcel Turcotte

If you have multiple calendars in iCal sharing multiple .ics-files is awkward, or simply, if you prefer an HTML-based solution, then have a look at tungle.me. I do have a MobileMe account, but on May 5, when Apple forced the update to WebCal, I sarted using tungle.me.

M.

June 01 2011 at 6:52 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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