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MobileMe doesn’t support calendar subscriptions
There are a lot of things to complain about when it comes to the launch of Apple’s MobileMe service, which is still in an on-again-off-again state more than 40 hours after it was supposed to be available. I’ve done my fair share of complaining, though, and I’m done bitching about the launch. For now, I’d like to move on and talk about the product itself. Overall, I’m pretty impressed, but it does have one missing feature that’s kind of killing me right now: calendar subscriptions.
If you’re a heavy iCal user, as I am, you are probably subscribed to several remote .ics calendars. At Blue Flavor, we use 37signals’ Backpack for several internal calendars, for schedules, holidays, meetings, and more. I also subscribe to several .ics calendars from social networking services like Upcoming and Dopplr.
A few days ago, before .Mac was turned off, these calendars synced to my iPhone without issue. Now, with MobileMe, they don’t.
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SCHED: SXSW 2008 Scheduler with iCal support
An all-inclusive calendar featuring official and non-official events around SXSW. I’ve just used this tool to plan my week at Southby, and then subscribed to its iCalendar feed in iCal. Nice.
Advice to SXSW newbs: do plan out your schedule in advance, but don’t be too married to it. If you have no plan, you’ll be lost and you’ll find yourself ducking into panels at the last minute and not being able to find a decent seat. But, if you try to hard to stick to your plan, you’re going to miss out on a lot of the fun that comes with just going with the flow.
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Derek Willis: Django, iCal and vObject
Derek Willis (of The Washington Post) explains how to create a view that outputs iCal files using Django and the vObject Python module. Looks very simple. I’ll definitely be using this in the near future.
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More on gluing stuff together in Entourage
I stopped using Entourage long ago, but he’s right: it’s this sort of functionality that is sorely missing from Apple’s PIM suite (Mail, iCal, Address Book, etc.). I can’t tell you how many times per day I want to link an e-mail message to a To-Do or an e
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Jeff Croft
I’m a digital product designer and developer in Seattle, WA. I currently work with nGen Works, and recently co-founded Lendle, a Kindle book sharing service.
Some of my clients include Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Copious, The New York Review of Books, The Lawrence Journal-World, and the University of Washington.
I’ve authored two books on web and interactive design and spoken at dozens of conferences around the world.