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 as iCal 1.5. 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 .
- It keeps track of events and Appointment s, allows multiple calendar views (such as calendars for "home", "work", and "kids") to quickly identify conflicts and free time.
- It is integrated with .Mac , so calendars can be shared over the Internet . You can also share calendars via the WebDAV protocol.
- Users can Subscribe to other calendars so they can keep up with friends and colleagues, and other things such as athletic schedules and television programs.
- ICal 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 software.
- iCal development is quite different from other Apple software since it was designed independently by a small French team working "secretly" in Paris , led by Jean-Marie Hullot, a friend of Steve Jobs . iCal's development has since been transferred to Apple US Headquarters in Cupertino .
- iCalFix - iCal extension that automatically adds alarms to newly created events.
- 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)
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