Sad but true. I have an entire folder of bookmarked “groups of tabs” in mozilla entitled [MM/DD/YY To Blog]. I have a feeling that these will only ever get blogged if someone writes a “groups of tabs” blogging shortcut. Hmm, that’d be pretty cool, actually… How about a “Send tabs to blog.” Hmm…
I meant to post this up earlier, Ken Bereskin’s blog is very cool. He’s a product manager at Apple and has all kinds of neat tidbits about Jaguar.
Speaking of which, I downloaded iCal the other day, and it’s cool, except it can’t sync w/ Palms, which also makes it, well sorta a lame duck right now. Very gimpy. On the other hand, it has some very neat features. Apple offers downloads of a bunch of pre-made Calendars. These .ics files (using a ‘webcal’ protocol) are also accessible via http. Here’s one: http://homepage.mac.com/ical/.calendars/US32Holidays.ics. If you look, it’s just a plain iCalendar (vCalendar 2.0) file. What’s interesting is that while you can control the refreshing of subscriptions when you grab them from iCal, there doesn’t seem to be a way to suggest refreshes from the vCal file itself. Now that, would be very cool.
Some links:
- LaughingMeme has a calendars category
- WebDAV should be used with authentication of course, but I’m unclear on how access is set. I’m assuming it should be owner writable and group readable.
- Lots of iCal hints at Mac OS X Hints. Of interest: Publish iCal calendards with local WebDAV server
- Jason Grisby did some research on iCal history a few months back, part of a larger discussion on Apple as Platform Vendor on Hack the Planet.
- Mozilla Calendar is moving along as well. v0.8 was just released. v0.8 can read the Apple iCal files. I suspect I’ll end up using Mozilla Calendar more vs iCal as it stabilizes primarily because it’s platform independent, and secondarily because the source is available to hack on (in my copious free time, of course).