Tom Raftery complains about the lack of online calendaring systems-I have solution at RunningWithBulls.com

Tom Raftery complains about the lack of online calendaring systems-I have solution

Published by bbt March 9th, 2006 in bernard, irishblogs, mac os x, runningwithbulls.com, websites

Tom Raftery complains (and rightly so!) the lack of an online calendaring system. And rightly so. Why can’t all the cool and hip Web 2.0 people get with the programme.

Well, until I found icalx a few months ago, I was complaining too.

icalx is a God send. It looks a little old (in fact AFAICS the owner has not updated it since 2003), but works *really really well*.

It runs like so:

1. I have my iCal calendars on my PB. I publish them to icalx, as public or private calendars, whatever.

As you can see here:

2. I synchronize my Treo 650 with my PB using Missing Sync (ver 5.0.3-105).

3. They then become updateable/readable on the Internet, in either .ics or .html formats.

As you can see here:

4. In work, I then use Mozilla Sunbird (I am a Windows user for work) to subscribe to the password protected .ics calendars. I then update as I so please. All the changes are then refreshed to my iCal calendar on my PB at home.

[When Outlook as a part of Office 11 is finally released, it is supposed to have support for .ics calendaring system [they finally caught on], which will mean I can once again use use only *one* application on Windows for mail/tasks/notes/calendar/addresses]

5. I have 99.9% of my notes/addresses/calendars/tasks synch’ed to all platforms, and web accessable if I really really need them.

Seriously if you want a free ical service, and you don’t mind the Web 1.0 (just proving that Web 1.0 was doing cool stuff-and still is!) I would recommend using iCalx

Tom - if you want abit of help, lemme know.

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1 Peter Aug 2nd, 2006 at 2:49 am

Thanks for throwing this up on the net. I struggled to find a method of sharing calendars short of setting up an exchange server and the rest of the works.

Although I have not found a means of working this together with Outlook, which I would like, it is definately a God sent.

Now that I’ve read some user opinions, like this one, I feel confident to use it.

My last remaining concerns are security and the future. No updates since ‘03 and not much mentioned on how secure it is. Hopefully it will be around for a long time to come…and with how long it took me to find it, I think it is quite secure.

Thanks again for having this up!

Pete.