ICal

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

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

For the calendar data exchange standard, see iCalendar.

iCal

iCal 2 under Mac OS X
Developer:	Apple Computer
Latest release:	2.0.5 (1069) / March 13, 2007
OS:	Mac OS X
Use:	Electronic calendar
License:	Proprietary
Website:	www.apple.com/ical/

iCal is a personal calendar application made by Apple Inc. 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.

Apple licensed the iCal name from Brown Bear Software, who used it for their iCal application.

1 Features
2 Trivia
3 See also
4 External links
5 References

[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.
iCal integrates Apple Sync Services to sync its data with .Mac, devices such as PDA or mobile phones via iSync and third party softwares.

[edit] Trivia

iCal's icon displays July 17, which was the date when iCal premiered in 2002 at the Macworld Expo in New York City. When iCal is opened, its icon in the Dock changes to display the current date.

iCal development is quite different than other Apple softwares since it has been designed independently by a small French team working "secretly" in Paris, lead by Jean-Marie Hullot, a friend of Steve Jobs. iCal's development has since been transfered to Apple US Headquarters in California.

[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

Calendar and Scheduling Consortium part of next version of iCal Server (Leopard)
iCalShare - A large directory of shared calendars on the web, organized by category (linked from Apple.com ^[1]). Steve Jobs had mentioned iCalShare by name in his keynote presentation at the January 2003 Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco.^{[citation needed]}

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)

[edit] References

^ Apple Releases iCal 1.0.1 and iSync 1.0. Apple.com Press Release (January 2, 2003). Retrieved on 2007-01-18.

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