1. Subscribe to your favorite calendars
The real power behind iCal is the ability to bring in calendars from others and see the events and activities right along side your own.
Here's a great list of available calendars to subscribe to and here's another great source. Of course don't forget to subscribe to our MacGroup iCal.
2. Publish your calendar
Not only can you subscribe to calendars of others but you can also publish your own iCal so that friends, family and colleagues can know what's on your schedule.
I love this! It does require either access to a WebDAV/CalDAV server such as the one built-in to Mac OS X Server or simply use a MobileMe account. Once you publish it people can either subscribe to it in iCal or Outlook on Windows or just see it on the web like this one.
3. Use Data Detectors to Create Events
If someone sends you an email about an event or appointment there's a good chance that you can create an iCal event directly from that email. Just hover your mouse over the date/time, etc and see if the little arrow appears.
If it does you can have an event created right there on the spot. Continue reading »
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