Subscribe to iCal Calendars

You can subscribe to calendars that have been published by family, friends, colleagues, or total strangers. You do not have to have a .Mac account to subscribe to a calendar that's hosted on .Mac or other Webdav servers.

To subscribe to any iCal calendar:

1.	From the Calendar menu at the top of your screen, choose "Subscribe...."
2.	Either enter the calendar URL (web address) that was given to you or that you may have received in an email from the publisher of the calendar, then click "Subscribe." Or if you know the web address of a site that offers iCalendars for subscription (such as http://apple.com/ical/library), use your browser to visit the site and click one of the available calendar links. That address will appear immediately in the "Subscribe to" field (below-left).
3.	If subscription to the calendar requires a password, an "Authentication" window opens. Enter the required user name and password, then click ok to continue.
4.	The subscribed calendar appears in your Calendars list. Check its box to show it in the main viewing area.

Other Calendars Available for Subscription

In addition to subscribing to the calendars of friends, family, and colleagues, there are many specialinterest calendars available online to which you can subscribe. It's quite amazingthere are public calendars that list special events, sports teams, school calendars, religious events, movies, television, and many more. Visit these sites to see some of the possibilities:

www.apple.com/ical/library

www.iCalshare.com

www.iCalx.com

Refresh Calendars

If you didn't choose the "Refresh" option when you first subscribed to a calendar (as explained on the opposite page), you can manually refresh it at any time to see the most current version. When you refresh, iCal downloads the current calendar from the server, ensuring that you have the latest published information.

1.	Select a subscribed calendar in the Calendars list.
2.	From the Calendar menu at the top of your screen, choose "Refresh."

If you don't have a fulltime connection, make sure you dial up to connect to the Internet before you choose to refresh.