iCal is a personal calendar application made by Apple Computer that runs on the Mac OS X operating system. iCal can also refer to iCalendar, the standard calendar format used by the iCal calendar application.

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.
• You 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 reception of notification of upcoming events either on screen, by mail, SMS, or pager.

See also: iCalendar

External links

• apple.com page on iCal
• RFC 2445
• RFC 2446
• RFC 2447

Other ical

ical is also the name of an old but popular calendar package written in Tcl by Sanjay Ghemawat for Unix systems.

This earlier ICal is now maintained here: http://annexia.org/freeware/ical