Subscribe to an iCal Calendar

You can create calendars in iCal to keep track of all sorts of activities — all your meetings at work, your spouse’s meetings, after-school activities for the kids, family birthdays.

You can even use iCal to subscribe to calendars published on the Internet. Let’s say your kids’ soccer league publishes the practice and match schedules on the league’s MobileMe site. To subscribe, simply

1. In iCal, choose Subscribe from the Calendar menu.
2. Type the URL for the MobileMe website where the schedule is published.
3. Check the “Refresh” checkbox to have iCal automatically update your copy of the calendar when the league publishes updates.
4. Click the Subscribe button.

And you’re done. iCal adds the schedule to your Calendars list and places a curved arrow next to it. Double-click the name if you’d like to change it, but you can’t make any other changes to a calendar you’re subscribing to.