| When you publish a calendar from iCal on your .Mac account, you can view it using a Web browser. The corollary to this is that you can view any published iCal calendar using a Web browser, provided you know the name of the calendar and the member name of the person publishing it. To view an iCal calendar online 1. | Open your Web browser.
| 2. | In the location field, enter http://ical.mac.com/membername/calendarname and press Return replacing membername with the .Mac member name of the person publishing the iCal calendar and replacing calendarname with the name of the calendar you want to view.
The calendar opens in your Web browser, showing the Week view by default.
| 3. | To view the calendar one day at a time, click the Day button (Figure 8.17).
Figure 8.17. Click the Day button to change the calendar to the Day view. 
The calendar switches to Day view (Figure 8.18).
Figure 8.18. A calendar's Day view focuses on events for a single day letting you see how things are supposed to play out, minute by minute. 
| 4. | To view the calendar one month at a time, click the Month button.
The calendar switches to Month view (Figure 8.19).
Figure 8.19. A calendar's Month view displays an entire month at a time, with a summary of the month's scheduled events at the bottom. 
| 5. | To view today's calendar, click the Today button.
The calendar for the day you're working in opens.
| 6. | To view the calendar one week at a time, click the Week button.
The calendar switches to Week view (Figure 8.20).
Figure 8.20. The Week view (a calendar's default view) shows the week at a glance, also providing a time frame for each event a nice cross between the Day and Month views. 
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To subscribe to a calendar online 1. | Open your Web browser.
| 2. | In the location field, enter http://ical.mac.com/membername/calendarname and press Return replacing membername with the .Mac member name of the person publishing the iCal calendar and replacing calendarname with the name of the calendar you want to view.
The calendar opens in your Web browser.
| 3. | In the lower left column, click the Subscribe button (Figure 8.21).
Figure 8.21. Click the Subscribe button to launch iCal and subscribe to the calendar you're viewing in your Web browser. 
iCal opens and presents you with the "Subscribe to" sheet, with the URL filled in automatically (Figure 8.22).
Figure 8.22. After you click Subscribe, the "Subscribe to" sheet slides down, with the URL for the calendar you were just viewing filled in. To subscribe, click the Subscribe button. 
| 4. | Click Subscribe.
The subscribed calendar appears in iCal.
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To download a calendar 1. | Open a calendar in a Web browser.
| 2. | In the lower left column, click the Download button (Figure 8.23).
Figure 8.23. To download a file of the calendar (in a format that can be read by some other calendaring programs, such as Microsoft Entourage), click the Download link. 
A calendar file downloads to the folder where files are normally downloaded. You can import this calendar file into calendaring programs that don't support subscriptions, such as Microsoft Entourage.
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To import a calendar file into another program, typically you can either drop the calendar file on the program's icon, or import the file through the program's import function. To view more information about a calendar event, click it in the browser window. A window pops up with more information about the event (Figure 8.24). Figure 8.24. When you click a calendar event, a window pops up with more information about that event, showing its title, start date, and end date. 
You can browse through a calendar by clicking the Last and Next buttons at the top or bottom of the calendar's browser window (Figure 8.25). Figure 8.25. To browse through a calendar, click the Last and Next buttons at the top of the calendar's browser window. 
To view an individual day, click it in the Months at a Glance sidebar. The day will load in the browser window.
Setting Calendar Preferences You can set a calendar's viewing preferences by clicking the Preferences button in the lower left column of the calendar's Web page (Figure 8.26). When this page opens (Figure 8.27), you can alter the following settings: Choose a language From the "Choose a language" pop-up menu, choose which of 15 languages the calendar is displayed in. Choose whether the event list is displayed From the "Event list" pop-up menu, choose On or Off to set whether the event list appears at the bottom of the calendar in Month view. Choose a default calendar view From the "Default calendar" pop-up menu, select Daily, Weekly, or Monthly to set which view is the default. Choose the day the week starts on From the "Start week on" pop-up menu, choose a day of the week on which you want calendars to start. By default, this is set to Sunday, but no one's stopping you from setting it to Thursday, if you like. Choose how the time is displayed From the "Time display" pop-up menu, choose whether calendars are displayed using a 12 Hour or 24 Hour clock.
Figure 8.26. Click the Preferences button to load the preferences for that Web calendar. 
Figure 8.27. On the calendar preferences page, you can change some settings that govern how the calendar behaves such as the language it's displayed in, whether the event list is shown, and what the default calendar view looks like. 
Once you've made your selections, click the Apply button in the lower right corner to save your changes. |
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