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Outlook Web Access calendar subscription

lake59 — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:09:57 -0800

How to access two outlook exchange calendars from completely different domains side-by-side i work for two independent organizations. One of them has provided Outlook 2007 via Exchange 2003 and the other has provided OWA via Exchange 2003.

Each Organization provides a calendar. One is accessed as an exchange account in Outlook 2007 using and . The other is via OWA at https:///exchange//calendar.

I would like to access via outlook 2007 as well so I can easily compare the two calendars. I tried to subscribe to in Outlook using this address: webcals:///exchange//calendar but Outlook wants the subscription to include a specific file name like ical in order to work.

Any Ideas how i can get these two calendars side-by-side?

Thanks!

The App that Doesn't Seem to Exist

thisperon — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 14:09:37 -0800

Looking for a iphone/ipod touch calendar/todo app with specific requirements. Does it exist? Argh. Frustration with ical and how it currently works on the ipod touch. I am looking for an app that will:

1) sync wirelessly with both google calendar AND google tasks

or

2) sync wirelessly with ical AND ical tasks

Why oh why isn't there an app that does this? The best thing I've found is Calengoo, but I still can't get my Google tasks incorporated.

The app needs to be able to work offline (allow me to enter events and tasks or edit them), and sync when I am online again.

Anybody know of a solution? (And I don't want to use Mobile Me.)

Thanks.

iCal Data Recognition for Firefox?

sjuhawk31 — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:31:12 -0800

Is there a Firefox extension that makes it play with iCal like Mail does in Leopard? One of my absolute favorite things about OS X Leopard is the data recognition in Mail that allows you to hover over dates and make iCal events out of them. Is there an extension for the 'fox that lets you do the same thing?

the days of my life…

violetk — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:02:17 -0800

how do i delete a calendar from my ical app on my iphone? i have a calendar on my iphone ical app that i have no idea how to delete. i've deleted that calendar from ical on my mac but every time i sync my iphone with my mac, the calendar appears again because i have no idea how to delete it off my iphone.

where does quicksilver look for ical calendars?

viscountslim — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:24:01 -0800

Where does Quicksilver find calendars when adding items to iCal? When I go to the third pane to specify the task's calendar, QS presents me with a list of choices that I assume I created at some point in the past but which in no way correspond to my current list of iCal calendars. I want to delete these ghost calendars and make sure that QS accesses my current list. Any help would be much appreciated.

Lazy Calendar Copying

theichibun — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:58:18 -0800

How can I take a sports schedule in a table format and easily make an iCal calendar? I'm looking to take sports schedule that is only available in a table (columns for date, opponent, place, time, and result) and easily make an iCal (or csv that can be imported to Google Calendar or Sunbird) out of it.

How to make a google map of literary locations and the calendar of events at each place?

omnigut — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 20:07:15 -0800

Beautiful hive mind, Please tell me the best way of making a map/calendar duo that I can embed into my blog. I'd like to take Google Maps, and perhaps Google Calendar, and link the two together, much like they did here or here. Perhaps best described here. "Calmap."

Looking into this stuff makes my head hurt. Does anyone know of a simple way, for example, I could get a long and potentially very complicated Google Calendar or iCal into a Google Map, so that when you click on a place the events pop up and are listed? Perhaps the above sites have exactly what I'm looking for, but they got a bit too complicated for me. I'd like to embed the map into my school's wordpress.com blog.

We're willing to pay for an application, by the way, if it'll make things easier. Oh, and the calendar is supposed to be listing New York City's Literary Events, so there will be quite a lot of them. Any simple and quick ways of doing it?

Thanks!

PS, I'm not good with code. But I'm learning

My iPhone and Macbook are out of sync!

mjao — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:19:48 -0800

Why is my iCal out of sync by one hour between my Macbook and my iPhone? Okay... this seems to have happened ever since the switch to daylight savings recently. My Macbook was set on Adelaide time, for some reason, instead of Brisbane time - thus changing my time by an hour. I changed it to Brisbane time when I noticed, because Brisbane doesn't participate in daylight savings.

But ever since then, my iCal reminders have been out of sync.
An example: my alarm is set for 8.30pm to remind me to take my birth control pill. The alarm goes off at 7.30pm on my iPhone, and 8.30pm on my Macbook.

I tried deleting all the events from both my iPhone and Macbook and starting again, but after plugging my iPhone into the Macbook and synching the two, it gets all messed up again!

If I change the reminder on my iPhone to 8.30pm, it pushes my Macbook's reminder time back to 9.30pm!

I don't get it! There has to be a simple explanation.

iPhone/OS X filter: Can the iPhone sync wirelessly to iCal?

helios410 — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 05:37:33 -0800

Is there a way to wirelessly sync my iPhone to iCal via Airport or Bluetooth (without purchasing MobileMe)? Maybe an app through the App Store or a jailbroken app solution?

Sync calendars iPhone to iPhone

rleamon — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:18:13 -0800

She has an iPhone, I have an iPhone, and we want to share a calendar that can be seen and edited by both of us from our iPhones. Should be easy but apparently not... She uses her iPhone exclusively to make calendar entries. She has a Mac with iCal, and so do I, but don't want to have to sync our iPhones to our Macs to see updated entries. We also have a MobileMe family pack but creating a new user account for both of us to access didn't seem to work all the way through to the iPhone. We want to share a calendar if possible, but we'd settle even for my just being able to see her calendar on my iPhone and vice versa. Would prefer not to sync through Google Calendars a la BusySync or Spanning Sync, but if we have to... TIA!

Please help me sync iCal to my Palm before my Palm sinks to the bottom of Puget Sound

tristeza — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:28:24 -0800

Please help me sync my Palm Z22 with Mac's iCal and Address Book before I chuck it out the window. I have Googled articles and AskMe all day, followed all instructions to a T, and am still not finding success. Please help?

I have changed the conduit settings in HotSync to enable iSync, as instructed. I have set iSync to sync "iCal" and "Address Book". I have reinstalled the Palm software 5 times and factory reset my Palm 5 times.

I have synced over and over and over, and while both the Palm and iSync/Hotsync act like they're doing something (Palm says "syncing to do list, syncing contacts", spinning icons, progress bars, etc), my Palm remains empty of any information.

The weird thing is that I HAD a Palm Z22 before that DID WORK with iCall/Address Book, but it just died, and now I wonder how I ever got it to work in the first place!

I've read about an app for sale - Missing Sync - that could help, is that my only option?

Many thanks. (Comparable AskMes were at least 2 years old so I thought something may have changed since then)

What's the best calendar option for a 50-person, Mac-based company?

chefscotticus — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:40:15 -0800

What's the best calendar option for a 50-person, Mac-based company? My company is currently very unhappy with our calendar software: Now Up-to-Date. It's consistently sluggish and unresponsive, has an unintuitive interface, has a habit of losing events, and doesn't integrate well with online calendars that some of the staff keep for personal calendars.

We are almost exclusively (but not entirely) a Mac-based shop, with most staff on newish MacBooks. We have 50 staff, and are continuing to grow. We need functionality that includes viewing other people's calendars, allowing for proxy access (ie, allow an assistant to edit their manager's calendar), online and offline functionality, and an integrative and intuitive interface, as well as good stability.

Do you have experience with other alternatives? Can anyone speak to specific experiences with other software?

Help me introduce iCal to my bills

evariste — Fri, 16 May 2008 14:44:02 -0800

Do any of the new breed of financial websites like Wesabe, Mint, Yodlee et al. offer an iCal-subscribable calendar of your bills' due dates? Or do you have an idea for how to achieve this easily? It would be great if I could subscribe to an automatically generated iCal calendar of all the upcoming due dates for my various bills. Some of the dates move around as months wear on, so setting up my own recurring events wouldn't work very well for me due to the maintenance hassle. That's kind of what I was already doing and I'm fed up with it. Mint will email and/or text me a week before a bill is due, but I'd really prefer an iCal pull kind of thing to these push-notifications.

How can I make the Internet tell me when to plant things?

socratic — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:01:18 -0800

Tastyfreshveggiesfilter: does anyone know of a public calendar or similar notification service to which an aspiring gardener who has dirt and planting in his genes but has little prior experience with the green stuff could subscribe, e.g., in Google Calendar or iCal? Ideally, such a calendar would be customizable by what I'd like to plant and where I live. My goal here is to have email alerts, text messages, RSS, or whatever other Web-2.0-ish notifications one might possibly imagine when it is the best time to do certain gardening activities such as planting, fertilizing, etc. I probably wouldn't need this year after year (though given how addle-brained I've become, it couldn't hurt), but it would be hugely helpful as training wheels for a green-thumb aspirant such as myself.

Note that I'm not really soliciting good sources of planting information, etc. I've got a direct line to my grandmother, who is basically Yoda when it comes to growing things, but the problem is that I forget to seek the information out or fail to remember it when I do. I know how this is going to sound, but I just don't have time to learn everything I need to know and I'm growing weary of the "toss things in the dirt and see what comes up" form of gardening. I basically want to be an automaton for some mindless Internet application that will feed me planting dates until I begin to internalize some of the lessons of millennia of human evolution and cultural development which somehow managed not to be passed along to me. Basically, I have no pride, just a deep desire to bootstrap some basic knowledge of planting seasons and the like so that I can live up to my, heh, family legacy of greenery genius.

Anyway, I discovered a car bumper buried in my back yard a few days ago, so I'm not sure if anything good will come of sticking seeds in the soil, but I want to give it a try. And because of my previous failures, I want to enlist the powers of the Internet hordes to feed me information.

PS. It may be that this will end up going in Mefi Projects if nobody knows of anything even in the ballpark.

Wherefore art thou iCal?

killerinsideme — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:53:48 -0800

How can I transfer iCal items from my old Mac to my new one? I've looked around, but maybe I've missed it: how can I transfer individual date items (or whatever they're called) to my iCal on my fancy new Leopard iCal? I did Migration Assistant, but no dice. My new iCal does not show the dates I have engagements for. Please? Help? I feel like an idiot. This must be easier than this. Surely I'm missing something obvious.

Ghost appointments on my iPhone

mpls2 — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 05:20:28 -0800

Why does my iPhone insist that I have an appt every Monday @ 6.30pm? I used to have a recurring appt every Monday @ 6.30pm, but I no longer do. I've deleted this appt from my iPhone and iCal (i.e., there is definitely a point in time at which the appt is absent in both). But every time I sync my iPhone, the appt shows up in the calendar.

Anybody know why? Where is this info coming from if not from iCal?

How can I access the internal ICS file generated by Outlook when sending a meeting invitation?

lordaych — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:38:29 -0800

How can I access the internal ICS file generated by Outlook when sending a meeting invitation? I need to see the ICS attachment that is generated upon sending a meeting invitation (Outlook 2003, Exchange 2007). I know I can go into my own calendar and save an appointment as an ICS file, but I suspect there is a difference between the ICS file that is exported from my own calendar vs. the one that is sent when I invite other attendees.

I deal with ICS/iCAL files from time to time while working with BlackBerry devices. It's easy enough to create an ICS file that a BlackBerry will accept (and is quite neat that an entire month's worth of appointments can be embedded into a single ICS), but many of the problems and glitches we run into involve ICS files that are generated from Outlook, or ICS files that are generated from the BlackBerry itself and sent back to our Exchange server.

Unfortunately we don't use BlackBerry Enterprise Server so I am routinely hacking together solutions involving VCARD and ICS files.

In the past, I could send an invite to say, Yahoo Mail or perhaps even GMail and would be able to open the "meeting.ics" attachment. Now this does not work; GMail seamlessly handles the ICS file rather than letting me muck around with it. Yahoo and Hotmail happily devour it and leave no indication it ever existed.

Perhaps I just need to be made aware of some advanced options I'm not seeing in those webmail products; it'd be nice if there was a webmail site out there that let you really dig into the raw MIME-encoded guts of your email for purposes like this.

Astronomy events iCal feed?

Mwongozi — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:22:21 -0800

An iCal feed containing events of astronomical interest? I found this one, but it only contains events in the past, which seems to miss the point. I want to know about Astronomy events, before they happen.

Recommendations?

three months of iCal data missing

lorimer — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:56:33 -0800

iCal disaster. All records before a certain date are gone. This is true -- and the date in question is the same in each case -- for all my daily iCal backups over the last 30 days. I urgently need to recover these records if possible. I started using iCal on the 15th of September 07. As of some point more than 30 days ago, all my iCal data for the dates 15 sep 07 through 25 dec 07 was deleted. My iCal records now start as of 26 dec 07, and appear to be complete from that point on.

I sync iCal with my BlackBerry using Missing Sync (MS 1.0.1 / iCal 2.0.5 / Mac OS 10.4.10 / BlackBerry OS 4.2). I've been doing this daily since mid-September.

My Blackberry has over 22MB of free memory and is currently at its fullest point ever, so I doubt this has to do with a free-space issue. (More evidence for this: the other categories I sync this way [Memos and Address Book] appear to have all their records intact, including many I haven't touched since before 26 dec.) I've checked the bb in case it did have pre-26-dec cal records, but it has exactly what iCal has.

I only have my last 30 days of daily iCal backups (since mid-jan). When I revert to any of these backups, the data has the same issue (records start on 26 dec). I can't imagine what is significant about the 26th of December (no Christmas-related travel, new devices, changes in syncing/routine, or manual software updates [and nothing is set to auto-update on my computer). I know the sep-through-dec records all existed in mid-December, because that's the last time I went back through my records.

I urgently need to get those three months of iCal records back if there's any way. I'd pay money if the erased data could be recovered from my HD (however, my HD is usually at around 90% capacity, with large files that change often, so it's not likely that any deleted info survives for long). I don't do any syncing over a network or with a third party, and I'm BIS not BES so there's no corporate backup of my BB data.

I've clearly learned "in the future, keep backups much longer." Right now, please help me work with what I have and think of any way to recover the deleted records.

Syncing iCal and Google Calendar under 10.5

jaimev — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:08:56 -0800

Two-way syncing between iCal and Google Calendar under OS X 10.5? I'm trying to complete the calendar sync trifecta between an old Palm Pilot (cradled to a Win2K box), Google Calendar. and an iPod Touch (docked to an iMac).

The Palm--Google Calendar connection is working (using CompanionLink), and now I'm trying to get the Google Calendar---iCal bidirectional love going.

I know about Spanning Sync but $65 (1/2 the cost of Leopard) is a bit steep for this one function. BusySync 2.0 is cheaper, but unreleased. GCalDaemon is free but it doesn't appear to support Leopard yet.

Are there other, free solutions I should be looking at?

How to sync Palm and Google Calendar on Linux?

vilcxjo_BLANKA — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:04:14 -0800

How can I sync my calendars with linux. I use only linux. I have a palm device and a google calendar. I want to keep them both in sync, or at least to synchronize some of the events. I may have other Google calendars to sync if this seems to work. How can I keep these together. I know that Google calendar can export to .ics format. I looked at the SyncML implementations, but I couldn't make any sense of them, and they seemed to not be linux friendly.

Thanks.

Nokia's Exchange Mail as a bridge to iCal work sync

mchmarny — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:49:36 -0800

I use Nokia's Exchange Mail push technology on my E61i. Pretty happy with how it works. I am considering getting a new MacBook. Given the luck of any more reliable means of syncing my iCal with work's Exchange, (no, Entourage is not an option) I was wandering if any one has experienced with the Nokia phone working as a bridge between iCal and Exchange. I hope to sync my iCal with the phone and the phone should automatically should replicate the events to exchange. Sounds like it should work?

Seeing two weekends at once?

sparrows — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:45:28 -0800

Can I force iCal to display more than 7 days at once in its Week view? (Say, 9 or 10 days at once?) I'm not finding a definitive answer on the web, just other people wishing for the same thing (or suggestions of non-iCal programs, which I can't use). I'm running Tiger but would also be happy to hear if there are any differences here in Leopard.

Is it possible to export an .ics file from iCal containing just today's events from specific calendars?

jack_mo — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 11:28:39 -0800

Is it possible to export an .ics file from iCal containing just today's events from specific calendars? I assumed I'd be able to do this with Automator, but it doesn't have any actions for exporting from iCal.

So is there a way to do this, perhaps with Applescript? I've tried Googling to no avail - there seem to be plenty of scripts to export todo items in various ways, but nothing regarding calendars for a given date that I could find.

Alternatively, is it possible to make a new 'daily' calendar containing all today's events from specific calendars (and nothing else), which I could then export manually? Again, I can't get Automator to do this - the New iCal Events action won't take input from Filter Items in iCal or Get Specified iCal Items.

I'm running iCal 3.0 on OS 10.5.

Switching from Entourage 04 to iCal/Mail/Address Book

4ster — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:21:00 -0800

I just switched from Entourage 2004 to Mail.app/iCal/Address Book. What techniques and/or add-ons should I be using? So far, I have only installed a script that allows me to have a different reply to: address than I send from, and I am planning on trying MailTags later tonight, which I think will at least let me categorize archived mail like I could with Entourage. What else should i know?

Ideally, I'm looking for:
- Advice on your best/favorite ways to set up smart folders/smart mailboxes.
- Any opinions on MailActOn (or similar applications)
- Advice on good ways to turn email into events, now that I can't ^E like I could in Entourage.
- Any other good downloads I'm not thinking of.

I use a hosted version of Tracks (tracks.tra.in) for tasks/projects, so I think I'm good there, but I open to suggestions. I also sync to a PalmOS Treo, in case that is relevant.

Thanks in advance. Going from having everything in one application to having it in four seems a little weird, but I'm committed to learning how best to do this.