While I rely on iCal to help me track meetings and to dos, I’ve always found the actual process of adding new events and to dos much more complex than it need be. Typically I’ll be in some other ...

Mac OS X (10.5.6) only: Instead of launching iCal and clicking on a date to add something to your calendar, Macworld details how to put together a one-click Automator action. With a simple New Event ...

In OS X 10.5, you can use the Finder’s new Cover Flow view mode and Spotlight to look at tasks on your iCal calendars in a new and interesting manner. Imagine if you were, say, writing for Macworld, ...

For some iCal users the search functions, which rely on Spotlight indexing of the calendars, has suddenly stopped working. Apple Discussions poster chris_hb writes: "Yesterday, when I tried to search ...

Mac OS X only: Heavy iCal users who want to add a new event or new task at the press of a key combination want FlexCal. The System Preferences pane lets you set a hotkey that invokes a new to-do or ...

You can not only use Apple's iCal application to schedule your own life, but also to send invitations to events. You must have a card created for yourself in your OS X Mail address book, and then you ...

MacOSXHints has a slick tip on creating clickable iCal events that are either URLs or links to files. Sure, you can add a URL to an event's description, but with this simple method you can create an ...

A while ago we covered Quicksilver plugins for Gmail and Google Calendar, allowing you to send an email or create a new event (respectively) right from within Quicksilver's interface. If you aren't a ...

Reports have surfaced that iCal calendar events that contain all-day events are having issues when publishing to MobileMe. The issues appear to be related to Snow Leopard's version of iCal. Joe ...

At first glance, your Microsoft Office Outlook calendar might seem incompatible with Apple's iCal; however, the .ics format, also known as iCalendar, is a common bond between these and many other ...