Is There A Way to Do iCal Publishing w/o $100 for .Mac?

September 15, 2004 7:21 AM

I don't want to pay Apple another $100 for .mac, but I want to use ical publishing. Is there another option short of setting it up on my own server, which I have no chance of figuring out? Is there a rival service for mac users?
posted by subpixel to Computers & Internet (8 answers total)

I'd love to find a way of hosting iCal on my own server. In the meantime I use http://www.icalx.com
posted by skylar at 7:27 AM on September 15, 2004

Here's a fantastic howto to simulate every service save the iSync stuff (which is all I'm really using it for these days, unfortunately.)

If you're just looking to do iCal, you can always just enable WebDAV on Apache.
posted by Remy at 7:34 AM on September 15, 2004

Trust me- take the time to do it yourself. The instructions are pretty painless, step-by-step, cut-and-paste affairs.
posted by mkultra at 7:50 AM on September 15, 2004

My hosting company offers WebDAV, but I've yet to give it a try.
posted by mcwetboy at 8:09 AM on September 15, 2004

iSync between computers seems to be the one service that no one can duplicate. I use it all the time, but have trouble paying $100/year for it.
posted by rschroed at 8:25 AM on September 15, 2004

If you have your own server or web space with WebDAV, check out PHP iCalendar so people can look at all your calendar items. It's made for iCal, but I also use it for viewing my KOrganizer stuff from Linux.
posted by zsazsa at 8:31 AM on September 15, 2004

Anyone know a way to make my iSync'ed iCals readable AND writeable from anywhere? I'd like to add stuff to my iCal while I'm at work, but I'm on a PC, and iCal Exchange and the like only allow read access.
posted by Succa at 10:31 AM on September 15, 2004

I'm pretty sure that SpyMac's free package offers iCal hosting, if you don't want to roll your own.
posted by jammer at 12:59 PM on September 15, 2004